Framing and natural disasters: framing the Chilean written press
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Francisco Javier Tagle Montt
fjtagle@uandes.cl
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Chile is a country that throughout its history has been constantly plagued by several natural disasters, which not only took the lives of thousands of citizens and caused pain and material losses, but also put to the test to both the authorities and the community. In this regard, the purpose of this research was to study how El Mercurio and La Tercera –the most important newspapers of the leading Chilean written press media‘s duopoly- framed the most destructive catastrophes that happened in the past two years: The Earthquake of Iquique and Coquimbo, The Alluvium of Copiapó and The Fire of Valparaíso.
All this in order to analyze both qualitatively and quantitatively the framing of these newspapers regarding the natural disasters, so the contributions and shortcomings of these Chilean press medias when reporting on these extreme situations can be established in a critical way, taking into account that normatively, to these phenomena, press is expected to be a forum both for balances of what happened, as for discussion on the future reconstruction.
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