Television News and Staging. Fictional Recreation in Sensationalist Discourse

Abstract

For the audience, informative image has certification value, in spite of the fact that this effect has been demonstrated to be only apparent. Nevertheless, audio-visual journalism generates stagings that interfere in the recorded facts, provoking a new and fictitious situation. This communication approaches, through case analysis methodology, the pragmatics of two journalistic stories that have come out to public opinion in which authors forced the truth and intervened in the recording. The aim of both interventions was to obtain more spectacular news and therefore more attractive products for his massive consumption. Concretely the communication is about two types of staging: intervention on sources and dramatization or reconstruction of an event.