El asesinato de Miguel Ángel Blanco como ejemplo de key event en el tratamiento mediático de los atentados mortales de ETA
ISSN: 2174-0992
Year of publication: 2013
Issue Title: Periodismo y democracia en el entorno digital
Issue: 6
Pages: 115-160
Type: Article
More publications in: adComunica: revista científica de estrategias, tendencias e innovación en comunicación
Abstract
In 1995, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, better known by its acronym ETA, changed its strategy in a way that would radically affect the media's coverage of the group's terrorist activities and eventually make Basque news organisations targets of their attacks. It was in that year that ETA ramped up pressure for the fulfilment of its political objectives by mounting a series of attacks that specifically targeted members of the Spanish judiciary and democratically elected officials primarily affiliated with the Popular Party and the Socialist Party, the two largest political parties in Spain. The apotheosis of this strategy was the July 12, 1997 assassination of Miguel Ángel Blanco, a councilman for the Basque city of Ermua affiliated with the PP, whom the group had abducted two days earlier. The brutal killing of Blanco marked a before and after in the media's coverage of ETA violence and constituted what authors such as Kepplinger and Habermeier (1995) refer to as a «key event». From that point on, the media would assume a more active role in the fight against ETA. This article explores how press coverage of fatal attacks perpetrated by ETA changed after the assassination of this municipal official by comparing reporting before and after the Blanco assassination and using framing theory to analyse the approaches applied by these four dailies to their coverage of ETA violence.
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