La sobreexplotación de notas de procesos legales en los programas de farándula, criterios de noticiabilidad aplicados y la relación con el rating.

Abstract

Several studies have been carried out on it, but the overexploitation of news notes has not yet been studied properly. One of the frequent topics which the tabloid press is about is the legal proceedings: divorces, child support, scams and homicide. This work focuses on the analysis of the notes over characters involved in legal proceedings, the frequent publication of this content and its dependence on the rating. In addition, it will observe whether they comply with the basic norms of the journalistic exercise or not. To demonstrate the data proposed, a mixed research method was used. As a research technique, the analysis of 90 notes published by the TV programs Boca De Boca En Boca and Vamos Con Todo was applied in a period of 4 months (March, April, May and June), in which the studied legal processes had the most media attention. Four news values, four rules of journalism provided by the Organic Law of Communication (Ecuador) and in-depth interviews with the producers of the studied programs were used for this work. The results exposed the ignorance on the news values and the rules of journalism for the production of the notes, the producers’ decision-making to generate content and the reason for the frequent diffusion of these informative capsules.