Crime on the Spanish TV news programs

The main objective of this article is to analyze how Spanish media, and specifically television news, construct the information related to the area of public safety. For this purpose, three national television channels and one regional channel were chosen, encompassing a total of 105 news programmes and 299 news stories, applying qualitative analysis techniques to their contents. Thus, from a descriptive perspective, texts have been coded and classified, looking for common and divergent discourses around three dimensions: emphasis, description of effects and consequences, possible explanations and solutions or measures.