While waiting in the lobby of the hotel, I decided to read some of the get a better idea of the type of news media Spain had, and simply to wait for the rest of the group to head downstairs. I was surprised at how left-wing one of the papers was. It was so different than what I'm used to in the United States where they news media strive towards an "objective" view point. This is because in Western Europe, including Spain, advocacy journalism is the norm.
Advocacy journalism is, at its most simplest, a news medium that advocates for certain point of view. It intentionally leans towards a political or social view point using solid facts, as opposed to propaganda, for example. This brings in a higher readership rate because the reader knows from the get-go that they will agree with the point-of-view of their preferred newspaper. Those that are for advocacy journalism agree that it is impossible to "objectively" report news and there will always be an implicit bias.
Critics often say that it is counterproductive to society because when people only read and hear what they want to hear, they will not have any reason to look at the other side of the metaphorical coin, and see the opposing view of the other side and compromise becomes difficult in the future.
Most newspapers work in a regional level or they are specialised in specific subjects or news formats. There is a newspaper for Seville, Diario de Sevilla, and one for Jerez, and Madrid, and Granada, and many more. Depending on who owns, the papers, these papers will not cover the same nes on the front page, as its localized to the region it pertains to, and all of these papers are advocates
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