La sobrecarga informativa del COVID-19 y sus efectos en las audiencias de un noticiero de televisión. El caso Televistazo, de 2020 a 2022.

Abstract

Through the knowledge obtained through observable evidence, the category of news oversaturation of an Ecuadorian media outlet was analyzed, since the beginning of the health pandemic due to COVID-19, the journey of the construction of the news and the perception of their consumers in the year 2020-2021-2022. Among the results it was shown that the term of journalistic oversaturation is overlooked in communication professionals and they give way to an equality that assimilates it with the trend or theme, the result of this practice is that the freedom of the audience in its will to choose vanishes and the meaning of the news information he receives loses its meaning as it is consecutive. The emotional scheme of the audiences is measured in peaks of labels, whose references from the newscasts (of the three years cited) remain in the memory of each individual and this triggered a cognitive bias, demonstrating the correlation of the emotionality of the individual, the news and the effect of information tumbles.