Análisis del tratamiento periodístico del tema ambiental en los diarios El Tiempo y El Mercurio: caso Kimsacocha, periodo 2008 – 2016

Abstract

The means of communication have a great potential for orientation, education and facilitate elements of justice to the population so that they can take right decisions. This is why thru the present study, people pretend to know how the means addresses information on environmental issues. If they do so from an environmental, social and political perspective in an integral way, they could contribute to the construction of an environmental knowledge, which will revolutionize and promote a change in the way of conforming the world in relation to nature and the space that makes it up, but If, on the contrary, they do so in a circumstantial manner and with a partial view of the facts, the population will not have the necessary elements to make decisions and actions. The main objective of this research is to analyze the journalistic treatment of environmental issues in the newspapers El Tiempo and El Mercurio: the Kimsacocha case in the period from 2008 to 2016. To determine if the abortion was profound and comprehensive as an environmental and limited perspective. We used the methodology of the Content Analysis and the Structured Interview that allowed to reveal the journalistic treatment of the Kimsacocha case. In this way, it was shown that there was no comprehensive and deep treatment with an environmental perspective.