Ethics of Information in Television Media of the Western Region of El Salvador

Abstract

It is not a secret for anybody that the actual media situation attempts directly to the moral and human being. In this outlook, media from the Western area starts and faces the dilemma of doing or not the correct or add media that does the same with the purpose of selling and taking place in society.

This investigation which is explanatory appears with the objective of analyzing the approach that media from Santa Ana does. For that, an interview was addressed to professionals that work as journalists in SantaAnatudestino.com, TVS channel 25, Canal Real and Wow TV. They were the population and sample of study. After the interview, the procedure was to observe those channels to compare the information gotten from the interviews to the reality of their transmissions.

Among the main results, there was found a noticeable professional vanity because each channel proclaims to be the best in the area taking only as a base the quality of its technical team. Moreover, it was showed that some of these channels have distorted the ethic notion when they affirm that “it can be ethic sensationalist”. Moreover, there were perceived many deficiencies in basic concepts to make quality television.

Finally, from the data that was gotten and from an exhaustive bibliographic revision, it was proposed a set of action guidelines that can be useful as a guide for the journalistic development.