Abstract

PALACIO, Celia del. Everything’s Personal. The Representations of the Murders of Three Journalists in the State’s Press in Veracruz. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2022, vol.67, n.244, pp.137-164.  Epub Apr 17, 2023. ISSN 0185-1918.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.2448492xe.2022.244.76483.

This article aims to show the way the state press handled the murders of three journalists in Veracruz: Regina Martínez (2012), Gregorio Jiménez (2014) and Moisés Sánchez (2015). These murders happened during the six-year term of Governor Javier Duarte de Ochoa (2010-2016), considered to have been the most violent to journalists in Mexico. From a pool of 125 published texts, a corpus of 99 informative articles was reviewed. In order to analyze the representations of the murders, the sources, the headlines and subtitles were taken into account, as well as the text of the notes, to analyze the kind of frame used in each case according to the systematization made by Radamanto Portilla and the operation of ideology according to John B. Thompson’s proposal. Three examples from the digital newspaper Alcalorpolitico.com are presented here. The study showed that the murder of the three journalists was covered differently, but official sources prevailed without any counterbalance, and the texts clearly sought to legitimize the authorities. In two of the three cases, the journalists were presented as victims of common violence, killed for personal reasons.

Keywords : violence against journalists; Veracruz; media framing; journalistic discourse; ideology.