Lower the missiles: We need a Journalism in peace

Abstract

Introduction. The article analyzes in an argumentative and journalistic way five emblematic scenes covered in photographs that marked the direction of the public opinion on reality and social conflicts as a result of the breakdown of peace processes in Syria, Venezuela and Ecuador in 2017.

Method. Take, under the figure of an individual case study, an opinion column published in the «El Universo» newspaper of Ecuador (April / 2017), written by Nelsa Cuberlo. This opinion column verifies how the use of a simple language can be a resource to generate a culture of peace, whose supreme objective is to rescue the human dignity. It is also an alternative response to the violence and the descontextualización of information lived every day by the mass media.

Results and conclusions. Analyzes the persuasiveness power of the photo in general and specially in photojournalism and opinion journalism, as valid but not a massive mechanisms of sensitization, justifying the importance of the journalism in the formation of a peace culture that the world needs. A valid and necessary alternative to face the crisis of the sensationalist journalism.