Yellow press as non-fiction soap opera in the frame of freedom of expression

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-.62-2007-738-151-159

Keywords:

Yellow journalism, Freedom of expresion, Soap operas, Ethic, Deontology, Ficcion

Abstract

This article aims to describe the yellow journalism phenomenon in Spain during recent years. We hypothesize that such sensationalism is instaled within the so called ‘gossip press’. We made a brief one, although exhaustive relation of the meaning of the yellow media or vein sensationalist in its American origins, whose objective era and is to sell newspaper, as well as timid and little the excellent attempts of this form of journalism in Spain. Its development, harnessed by the television, comes dice by the proliferation from programs to the use in the channels deprived public and, as well as the increase of the circulation of magazines of the heart, as much the traditional ones as Hello to most recent because You say to me, among others. We assert that the practice of this peculiar way of information very often goes beyond the limits of the citizen’s rights to be truthfully informed, to the expression of freedom, both of information authors as the audiences. In the same way, we face such a journalistic exercise in front of its own structure, that is close to the fiction metastory in which TV serials are based, here adopting the shape of a no-fiction discourse.

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Author Biography

Carlos Pérez Ariza, University of Málaga

Graduated from the Andrés Bello Catholic University of Caracas, Venezuela, in 1975.

Doctor of Journalism from the University of Málaga (2001), with the qualification of Outstanding Cum Laude.His thesis, Freedom of expression in Spain. New technologies and the Information Society, won the SGAE 2002 national research award and is published by said General Society of Authors of Spain and the Author Foundation in 2003 (ISBN: 84-8048-484-5), in Madrid.

In 1991 , won the Ibero-American Journalism Prize awarded by the V Centennial Society and the Government of the Canary Islands. He has developed his professional activity as a journalist and teacher in Venezuela and Spain.  He is currently a professor at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Malaga.

Articles published:

Pink journalism, as a non-fiction soap opera within the framework of freedom of expression.

Freedom of expression in the paradigm of new technologies and the Information Society

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Published

2007-07-03

How to Cite

Pérez Ariza, C. (2007). Yellow press as non-fiction soap opera in the frame of freedom of expression. Revista Latina De Comunicación Social, (62), 151–159. https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-.62-2007-738-151-159

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