Abstract
The purpose of this article is to analyze the news that the Venezuelan newspapers Panorama and El Nacional published to cover the same event: the results of a demonstration that took place in Caracas; on January 3rd; 2003. The verbal domain of the news is studied in a semantic-pragmatic analysis and it is compared with the visual resources next to it. We conclude that both newspapers present biased information in favor of a political group; one of them is pro government; the other one is pro opposition. We evidenced the legitimating; illegitimating and concealing functions in the journalistic messages; which transmit dissimilar and contradictory para-realities; because in each media the victims and the aggressors are completely different. Through the selection of the informative sources; the topics; the headlines and the selective presentation of photographs; these news only give the readers one version of the fact; that inhibits their possibility of reconstructing the reality based upon the presented data.
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