La espectacularización de la muerte en la crisis sanitaria COVID-19: un análisis de las portadas del diario El Extra

Abstract

The arrival of COVID-19 has been taking different moments and stages that have been difficult to assume, since the arrival of this pandemic has left us with a variety of concerns about this new virus that over time has affected thousands of people who have been victims of infection or death. However, information is a key point to keep you informed about each of the aspects that this pandemic is presenting and what is more important is the good management of the sources, giving priority to reliable sources that are the ones that should be handled at this time. Journalistically, the information processes should not be interrupted in a bad journalistic practice. This virus has been affecting several fields where the daily routine took a 360° turn in economic, social, labor, health, etc. However, the media and journalism have had to take ways of communicating in times of pandemic, focusing clearly from the beginning where their news coverage is not involved in entanglements or causing misinformation or the so-called "infodemia" that by acquiring a lot of information can be disseminated in a confusing way to people seeking to stay informed and harming society by causing alarmist facts. The main objective of this research is to analyze 122 front pages taken from the newspaper El Extra from March to June where the spectacularization of deaths in the Covid-19 health crisis is reflected, where it is also possible to make a matrix that helped the analysis of these factors allowing to identify themes, discursive axes, index of violation of rights, that each of the front pages handles. The results indicate and allow understanding that for the newspaper El Extra it has not been a big problem to publish its front pages, since the crude, painful and unethical way in which they are handled makes the reader buy their copies with the simple fact of having quick information but not 100% accurate, leaving those who make these front pages with a low professionalism in ethics to what their profession allows them.