The economic dis-information in Spain: Case study of BFA-bankia and its IPO

Abstract

The research this article is inscribe on comes from the beliefthat the current characteristics of the communicationsecosystem generate the conditions for the occurrence ofdisinformation ploys due to informational insufficiency andpartial information, abuse of fidelity to the source, the absenceof interpretive and investigative journalism and theincomprehensibility of the information. The main objective is todetermine the relationship between the journalistic handling ofinformation as the creator of socialized realities and disinformation,from the semantic analysis and interpretation ofcontent based of the digital editions of 3 Spanish printed mediaof daily rotation (El País, ABC and El Mundo), in retrospective tothe listing in the stock market of BFA-Bankia (6th to 20th July, 2011) and prospectively on the interval after 10 consecutive daysof losses (3rd to 17th May, 2012). The main results showendogenous journalistic dis-information or poor handling ofthe financial information made public through the analyzedmedia existed, due to the creation of positive expectations of there-evaluation of the financial holding on the stock market.Meanwhile, the lack of investigative journalism, fidelity toofficial sources and the language used in financial reporting inthe media outlets mentioned above, also contributed to thefavorable scenario for dis-information.