Análisis de crónicas periodísticas sobre El Graffiti en los vagones del Metro de Quito. Caso de estudio El Comercio y La Hora.

Abstract

This academic article analyzes the journalistic chronicles issued by the media, Diario La Hora and El Comercio, in the face of a conjunctural event that took place in the city of Quito, on September 9, 2018; a graffiti was found on the wagons of the new Metro of the Ecuadorian capital. Each journalistic chronicle issued during the months of September and October of the mentioned year, is carefully examined according to its content and scope; addressing theories of communication, in order to publicize how the journalistic media treated the information that was of public interest. In order to contrast the information, the results of the analysis of the journalistic chronicles were compared with in-depth interviews with graffiti artists, citizens and academics of Quito. It is glimpsed, how the mass media, in the published chronicles, focused only on the violent aspect of the act. This caused the stigmatization of the entire graffiti community and went against their freedom of speech and human rights. It will be established that the newspapers, Diario La Hora and El Comercio, attributed negative characteristics to the people involved, who belong to minority social groups, it creates a discrediting vision of the subject for being different and subjects them to public rejection.