Speak the Culture: Spain: Be Fluent in Spanish Life and Culture

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1. Identity: the
   building blocks of
   2. Literature
   and philosophy
   3. Art and
   architecture
   4. Performing
   arts
   5. Cinema
   and fashion
   6. Media and
   communications
   7. Food and drink 8. Living culture:
   the details of

6.1 Media

The Spanish are strangely coy about

newspapers. Perhaps they’ve had enough

of bad news. Less cerebral media gets

a lot more attention. It begins with a

weakness for gossip mags and develops

into unabashed love for television and

radio. So far, faced with such competition,

the Internet hasn’t had much of a look in.