Las consignas de censura de tema deportivo en la prensa española del primer franquismo: un estudio documental

Abstract

This study seeks to be an initial documentary analysis on State orders to the press about sport during the first part of Franco regime. Basic tools of the State to control media and use them to inculcate the values of the new regime were such orders.Using historiographical research, we will check a large amount of unpublished primary documents collected in the Archivo General de la Administración to explain the context and development of sports censorship throughout the period covered by the study. As a result, we will be able to answer a key question: If sport topic censorship in Spanish press during the first years of francoism in fact occurred, how sports news were controlled and what way State orders censored sports journalists work? Orders to the press on sport topic constitute the major source to answer.In the end, we will see not only what was censored in sport but also for what reasons. As far as we are aware that is the main objective of general History and also sports History, and there lies the relevance of the contribution made by this paper.