El conflicto armado en la prensa colombo-ecuatoriana, caso alias guacho en El Universo – El Tiempo

Abstract

This research focuses on analyzing the contents disseminated by two media, El Universo de Ecuador and El Tiempo de Colombia, on the acts of violence that occurred on the Colombian-Ecuadorian border from January 27 to March 27, 2018 , where attacks by armed groups were perpetrated against the civilian and military population of Ecuador. These events caused the media to broadcast several publications, informing their readers about the reported attacks and mentioning alias Guacho and the Oliver Sinisterra front as the direct perpetrators. The journalistic notes analyzed were 16 from the digital medium El Universo in Ecuador and 17 from the medium El Tiempo in Colombia. The research is supported by content analysis using a mixed method and the conceptual theoretical framework that works in agenda setting theory, for which categories on qualitative analysis of the text were used. The analysis showed that the two countries, with their respective digital media, treated journalistic articles differently, showing a single culprit but cataloging it with different evaluations, which is why a theoretical approach to the concepts discussed in the journalistic notes allowing a content analysis of all the notes corresponding to the event