Tematización periodística sobre los ataques con ácido a partir del cubrimiento mediático de la agresión a Natalia Ponce de León Estudio de caso

Abstract

During the month of March 2014, when I was in my fourth semester of social communication, I learned, like all Colombian society, of the news about the attack perpetrated by Jonathan Vega against Natalia Ponce de León, an acid attack that he unusually called the attention of the media, the same ones that contributed to unleashing a strong current of opinion around this problem. Like a large part of the Colombian population, this case caused a lot of impact and aroused my curiosity to understand why this particular case called both the media attention and produced dozens of articles day after day, unlike the many other similar attacks that occurred previously. So I decided to find the right moment to investigate this episode of national life and understand a little more about the functioning of the media. Some time later, the idea matured and I did some bibliographic inquiries that would help me nourish my research, which began with wanting to demonstrate the shortcomings in Colombian legislation to penalize this type of attack and gradually derived the idea of ​​exposing the shortcomings in medical care to people victims of assaults with chemical agents. Finally, the hypothesis was configured around a phenomenon that I called "media elitism" based on the characteristics of the victim: a young, professional, bilingual woman who, in addition to being beautiful, resides in one of the best neighborhoods in the city and has traveled the world.