The battle against sugar in Spanish online newspapers: strategies and responses

  • Flora Marín Murillo Departamento de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad, Universidad del País Vasco, España
  • José Ignacio Armentia Vizuete Departamento de Periodismo, Universidad del País Vasco, España
  • María del Mar Rodríguez González Departamento de Periodismo 2, Universidad del País Vasco, España
  • Iñigo Marauri Castillo Departamento de Periodismo 2, Universidad del País Vasco, España
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20318/recs.2019.4760
Keywords: Sugar, online newspapers, framing, nutrition, service journalism

Abstract

Sugar is currently under the spotlight and the media are not unaware of this trend. Objective: To know the presence of sugar in its agenda and the information treatment this product receives. Methodology: 245 texts referring to sugar during 2017 and 2018 have been analyzed in five online newspapers: elpais.com, lavanguardia.com, abc.es, elconflidencial.com and eldiario.es. Results: The results confirm the relevance that sugar has, as well as the prevalence in the last year of the subjects on nutrition and/or health versus those of economy or politics. The frames in each of these areas are Measures / Solutions and Evidence / Revelation, respectively. Likewise, the features of style, especially in the nutritional field, correspond to a willingness towards the service journalism, where the flashy headlines and metaphors abound. Readers' response through the comments is minor, focusing on the Consequences and Evidence frameworks, where loss messages prevail. Conclusions: The preventive and pedagogical function of the newspapers is evidenced and, although the frame of responsibility is not a priority in any case, it is deduced that this responsibility is shared between corporations, institutions and especially the individuals who see it mitigated by various factors.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.
Abstract Views: 632
PDF (Español (España)) : 453
Published
2019-12-12
How to Cite
Marín Murillo, F., Armentia Vizuete, J. I., Rodríguez González, M. del M., & Marauri Castillo, I. (2019). The battle against sugar in Spanish online newspapers: strategies and responses. Revista Española De Comunicación En Salud , 10(2), 130-146. https://doi.org/10.20318/recs.2019.4760
Issue
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2019)
Section
Originals

All articles published in this journal –unless otherwise stated- are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerives (CC-BY-ND 3.0 ES) Spain 3.0 License, which allows others to copy, distribute and transmit in a public way as long as they credit the author(s), journal and institution that publish these articles, and provided that they are not altered or modified. The complete license can be consulted in: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/deed/.es

The copyright belongs to the manuscript’s author just on the basis of creating this work:

  • Moral rights are undeniable and inalienable.
  • Economic or exploitation rights can be transferred to third parties, as it occurs  when articles are published and authors partially or totally transfer their exploitation rights to publishers

Authors can archive their own articles in an institutional repository as long as their publications are cited in this journal.