''The Clinic'' is a partly
satirical
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Chilean newspaper that offers analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. The newspaper was founded by
Patricio Fernández Chadwick
Patricio Herman Fernández Chadwick (born 21 September 1969) is a Chilean lawyer who was elected as a member of the Chilean Constitutional Convention
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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
Augusto Pinochet's
October 1998 arrest in
Britain at
The London Clinic
The London Clinic is a private healthcare organisation and registered charity based on the corner of Devonshire Place and Marylebone Road in central London. According to HealthInvestor, it is one of England's largest private hospitals.
Histor ...
, which bears the name ''The Clinic'' on its façade. In its first incarnation, it was only a few pages long, distributed only within
Santiago
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, and costing 100
pesos
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(US$0.22 at the time). Over the years, it has changed drastically, and in 2013 cost 1000 pesos
[The Clinic]
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''(Cover 499)'', June 20, 2013. Archived i
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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.
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Humor
One of its humor features is done in a style reminiscent of Sergio Aragones' marginal cartoons in ''Mad Magazine
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Geography
* Mad (village), a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia
* Mád, a village in Hungary
* Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, by IATA airport code
* Mad River (disambiguation), several r ...
'': 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 double entendre
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captions.
Examples:
*It's true: marijuana
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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)[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]
Corrupción en el Chile de Allende
5 Aug 2004. had about 70,000 members.
*To be on the front page of ''Las Últimas Noticias
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'', all you have to do is bare your butt in a disco.
*Barney
Barney may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Barney (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
* Barney (surname), a list of people
Film and television
* the title character of ''Barney & Friends'', an American live actio ...
is Godzilla
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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 Augusto Pinochet to the late communist leader Gladys Marín
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.
''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.
See also
* List of satirical magazines
External links
The Clinic
Web site (in Spanish)
References
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Spanish-language newspapers
Newspapers published in Chile
Biweekly newspapers
Satirical newspapers
Mass media in Santiago
Newspapers established in 1998
1998 establishments in Chile