''The Clinic'' is a partly satirical Chilean newspaper that offers analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. The newspaper was founded by Patricio Fernández Chadwick in November 1998. The paper includes a wide mix of cultural criticism, jokes, in-depth interviews, and investigative work. The name was inspired by Chilean dictator

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's October 1998 arrest in

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at The London Clinic, which bears the name ''The Clinic'' on its façade. In its first incarnation, it was only a few pages long, distributed only within

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...

, and costing 100 pesos (US$0.22 at the time). Over the years, it has changed drastically, and in 2013 cost 1000 pesosThe Clinic
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(US$1.75 in 2013) and averages forty pages. Today, it is published every Thursday during normal operation times (it usually takes February off) and published its 499th edition on June 20, 2013.

Humor

One of its humor features is done in a style reminiscent of

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' marginal cartoons in ''

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'': at the bottom of each page (except the covers), the statement Sabía usted que...( Did you know that...?) is printed and followed by a remark which can be obscene, witty, snarky, or impenetrable, but is always very short. Another hallmark of ''The Clinic'' is its "shocking" covers, which often contain near-nudity and photoshopped heads, along with ironic or

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captions. Examples: *It's true: marijuana leads to coke, fries, two burgers, three ice creams... *Ghosts don't believe in people. *If everybody who says they were there, really was there, the GAP (Armed Personal Guard, an organization established to serve as a paramilitary presidential bodyguard for

Salvador Allende Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (, , ; 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. He was the fir ...

)Hermógenes Pérez de Arce
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5 Aug 2004. had about 70,000 members. *To be on the front page of '' Las Últimas Noticias'', all you have to do is bare your butt in a disco. * Barney is

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's gay son. *For the cost of a missile, you can make 25,000 envelopes with anthrax.

Editorial stance

''The Clinic'' covers current events from a generally leftist position, showing contempt for almost all other media outlets in the country, and mocking politicians of all stripes, from former military dictator

to the late communist leader Gladys Marín. ''The Clinic'' is also critical of what it calls "lazy reporting" and many times it has criticized the centrist and center-left governments that have ruled Chile after its transition to democratic government.

External links

The Clinic
Web site (in Spanish)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clinic Spanish-language newspapers Newspapers published in Chile Biweekly newspapers Satirical newspapers Mass media in Santiago Newspapers established in 1998 1998 establishments in Chile

Humor

Editorial stance

See also

External links

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