Tribunal:

SANCHEZ-BRAVO CENJOR ANTONIO (Chairperson)
FONTCUBERTA BALAGUER MAR (Member)
KORTAZAR URIARTE JON (Member)
TORREALDAI NABEA JUAN MARI (Member)
APALATEGI BEGIRISTAIN JOKIN (Secretary)

Descriptors:

POLITICAL SCIENCE
CIVILIZATIONS AND NATIONAL CHARACTERS
PUBLIC OPINION
PRESS
SOCIOLOGY
CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY

Summary:

THE THESIS IS STRUCTURED AROUND AN INTRODUCTION, SEVEN MAJOR CHAPTERS, A CONCLUSION AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY.  THE AUTHOR STARTS BY CONFESSING THAT THE SUBJECT OF THE THESIS HAS, OVER AND ABOVE BEING A RESEARCH MATTER, CONSTITUTED PART OF HIS LIFE. THE FIRST CHAPTER DESCRIBES THE "EVENT" THAT PROVIDED THE IMPETUS FOR THE RESEARCH - NAMELY, SOME DECLARATIONS MADE IN 1988 BY THE VICE-MINISTER OF CULTURE OF THE BASQUE GOVERNMENT, IÑAKI ZARRAOA, REGARDING THE PRESS IN EUSKARA. THESE DECLARATIONS ARE ASSESSED AS BEING MORE INTERESTING FOR THEIR SIGNIFIER THAN FOR THEIR MEANING. IN ORDER TO DELVE INTO THIS SIGNIFIER, A SYMPTOMATIC RESEARCH METHOD HAS BEEN CHOSEN WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR, IS MORE APPROPRIATE THAN A CLASSICAL QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS IN THIS CASE.
IT IS ARGUED THAT SYMPTOMATOLOGY LEADS US TO THE EVENT AND THE LATTER TO THE TRUTH. IN THE SECOND AND THIRD CHAPTERS ARE ANALYZED THE BEHAVIOUR ARISING AS A RESULT OF BEING DEEMED THE TRUTH.  REFERENCE IS MADE TO THE SHADY DEALS INVENTED BY THE BASQUE GOVERNMENT IN ORDER FOR THE REALITY REGARDING THE PRESS NOT TO MATERIALIZE IN EUSKARA. THIS IS A CASE OF REPLACEMENTS (NEW NEWSPAPERS ARE THEN CREATED SO AS TO BRING ABOUT THE COLLAPSE OF THE ALREADY-EXISTING PRESS IN EUSKARA) AND EXCUSES WITH THE AIM OF POLITICALLY PUTTING TO ONE SIDE THE BIRTH OF THE NEW PROJECT. CHAPTER FOUR ANALYZES WHEN, HOW AND SINCE WHEN FAVOURABLE REQUESTS FOR PRESS IN EUSKARA HAVE BEEN FORTHCOMING. TWO PATHS ARE INDICATED WITH THIS AIM IN MIND: THAT OF THE ONES WHO CHOSE THE BILINGUAL PRESS (PATH TO FAILURE) AND THAT OF THE ONES WHO WERE COMMITTED TO MONOLINGUAL PRESS IN EUSKARA (PATH TOWARDS THE FINAL DECISION). CHAPTER FIVE DEALS WITH THE CORE THEME OF THE THESIS. THE SAME IDEA OF THE PRESS IN EUSKARA IS FORMULATED AND IT IS MAINTAINED THAT THIS IS THE ONLY ONE WORTHY OF BEING REFERRED TO AS THE BASQUE PRESS. A DISTINCTION IS ALSO DRAWN BETWEEN THE STRUCTURE AND THE MOVEMENT IN ITS POPULAR DIMENSION. THE MOVEMENT IS RELATED TO THE BASQUE NATIONAL PROJECT AND…