The political parallelism in question

The text aims to analyze the contribution and limits to the use of the concept of ""political parallelism"" for comparative studies in political communication. To the present, the concept has been used in a binary opposition to the ""independent"" or ""objective"" model of journalism, so that every situation that does not fit the later would be covered by the former. Alternatively, it suggests that this type of opposition makes sense only in the context of Western societies, and that both categories only apply in contexts in which political systems can coexist with a competitive environment of reasonable institutional stability.