El papel de los medios de comunicación desde la óptica del conflicto armado en Marsella, Risaralda

Abstract

Marsella, Risaralda never experienced the violence in a direct way that brought with it almost 60 years of conflict in Colombia. Because in that place wasn´t armed confrontation in its streets but his nickname “The most violent municipality in Colombia” was granted him when the arrival of the victims of enforced disappearance began part of the different groups outside the law, who had a presence in the departments. This categorization as the most violent municipality that was also replicated by media, it was only a sample of the inability of these to see from global way the situation of the victims (families, bodies and the people who helped in the process), knotting only the state implications of the municipality for the bodies that they arrived there and not the capacity for social, judicial and material response that they should have towards the humanitarian actors. Because of this, it is natural to question whether there was a journalism superficial or banal in the face of a situation that involved rigorous research and analysis, understanding that this would contribute to the clarification of the facts and to the 'repatriation' of the bodies, or on the contrary, have simply incited from the speech in a legitimization of the inability of the State to recognize the humanitarian acts carried out since the empowerment of the inhabitants of the Vereda de Beltrán So, it is worth asking how the media acted with about what was happening in this area of the country, and why they did not act in accordance what is required to do an in-depth investigation with context, denouncing the responsible people who used the Cauca River as a method of forced disappearance and messenger of terror, leaving to report on this violence because it seemed routine and small (Basta Ya, 2013). Taking this aspect into account, we can affirm the capacity that the means of constructing half or imprecise realities have by recounting a fact in a sensationalist way to attract attention and not in claiming an explanation to the State of why those events were happening.