Octubre rojo: análisis crítico del discurso y el papel que juegan los medios de comunicación formal – escritos, durante el levantamiento de las jornadas del levantamiento de octubre 2019

Abstract

A total of 11 days shook the economic, social and political base of Ecuador, during the days of mobilizations of October 2019, because of its composition I have called it indigenous, social and popular uprising; a scenario where the ruling classes assembled all the machinery of the large mass media in the production and reproduction of discourses around power, to influence the subjectivity of the population. For this reason, the present work proposes to analyze the production and reproduction of hegemonic discourses of the daily media La Hora in relation to the government around power; The methodology used focuses on the functionalist paradigm of critical discourse analysis through statements and the bibliographic descriptive one as a qualitative methodology. The research has attempted to characterize La Hora as an interest group on a daily basis, as a company that affirms the economic dynamics of capitalist accumulation. Its board of directors identifies ideologically and politically with Liberalism as part of the ruling classes that influence its editorial line; This interest, when related to the speech of former president Lenin Moreno in the Message to the Nation of October 7, 2019, demonstrates the significance of the speech and its position as part of the super structure of society to make visible the relationships of power