Information frames on drugs in the Uruguayan press 2004-2014. A longitudinal analysis
Abstract
The results of a study that analyzed the content of drug information published by the Uruguayan Newspaper El País between 2004 and 2014, in a changing political context and with a process of regulation of cannabis by the government, in between, are presented. Through the framing theory, the dominant frames present in the publications are identified. It was found that the media studied, in general, disseminates a negative image of drugs, dominating in its publications the informative genre, with texts of little depth and of a markedly sensationalist nature, being the police, judges, prosecutors and politicians the dominant sources, mostly linked to issues of trafficking and crime; hiding or minimizing other voices or positions linked to science, health or citizen rights.
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