Final cessation of the armed activity or the end of terror? The declaration of the end of ETA’s violence on the cover of Spanish newspapers

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the announcement of the end of ETA violence on the cover of general newspapers published in Spain on October 21, 2011, the day after the band sent their statement to the Basque daily Gara and Berria, the BBC and The New York Times. It is the overall interpretation of 112 covers, in order to know how many different versions of the same fact came to light that day, and to describe and see how the different ways of addressing the same newsworthy event build different realities related to a particular way of seeing the world: the ideology of the media and also, implicit, the ideology of the publishing group, the government, the opposition, advertisers, lobbyists, etc.