Análisis de la legitimidad de los Mossos d'Esquadra en los medios de comunicación escrita durante el proceso de autodeterminación catalán

Molino i Rodríguez, Maria

Análisis de la legitimidad de los Mossos d'Esquadra en los medios de comunicación escrita durante el proceso de autodeterminación catalán

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Molino i Rodríguez, M. Análisis de la legitimidad de los Mossos d'Esquadra en los medios de comunicación escrita durante el proceso de autodeterminación catalán. 2021. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53025

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Abstract

The autonomous police of Catalonia, called Mossos d’Esquadra, has been the object of controversy in the public sphere as a result of its actions during the Referendum of Catalan self-determination of October 1st 2017 and in the protests against the sentence of El Procés during the months of October and November 2019. Given that the media help to build public opinion, it is important to know what image they project of the autonomous police. The objective of this paper is to determine, through an analysis of the elements of police legitimacy, what treatment is given by the newspapers La Vanguardia, ARA and El Periódico of the actions of the autonomous police during these two periods. For this propose, a qualitativeanalysis of 75 news stories and 6 covers of these written media has been carried out. From this study, it has been concluded that the newspapers La Vanguardia and El Periódico follow similar discursive lines in relation to the events under study. On the other hand, the newspaper ARA dissociates itself from this narrative. It has also been extracted that the legitimacy of the autonomous police varies according to the time and context.