Within journalism there are critical and informative notes, in the latter the reader hopes to find information and a balanced approach in order to form his own opinion. However, in the municipal elections of 2018, in the case of the newspaper El Comercio regarding the candidacy about Daniel Urresti, it was not. Of the 62 briefing notes published on Urresti, 5 of them were, in fact, critical notes, which could influence readers when taking a position. This article analyzes three of these five notes, the selection criterion was the presence of a higher critical emphasis and a turgid use post-truth mechanisms. The main conclusion is that these mechanisms post-truth evidence, more than the intention of informing, the objective of criticizing and indirectly influencing readers when evaluating Urresti's candidacy.

El presente trabajo de investigación realiza un análisis de la cobertura periodística de los diarios La República y El Comercio durante las elecciones municipales de Lima en el mes de septiembre del año 2018. Se ha considerado como parte de este análisis 10 notas informativas de ambos diarios, algunas a favor o en contra de determinado candidato, otras pretenden ser neutrales sin expresar su postura dominante. Asimismo, el motivo por el cual se realiza el presente trabajo es para que los jóvenes puedan informarse y conocer más a profundidad cómo es una campaña electoral municipal en Lima- Perú, mientras que el objetivo de la investigación, tal y como se ha mencionado, es analizar en qué consistió la cobertura periodística de los diarios La República y El Comercio durante las elecciones municipales de Lima en el mes de setiembre del año 2018. Asimismo, el fin de este trab...

Within journalism there are critical and informative notes, in the latter the reader hopes to find information and a balanced approach in order to form his own opinion. However, in the municipal elections of 2018, in the case of the newspaper El Comercio regarding the candidacy about Daniel Urresti, it was not. Of the 62 briefing notes published on Urresti, 5 of them were, in fact, critical notes, which could influence readers when taking a position. This article analyzes three of these five notes, the selection criterion was the presence of a higher critical emphasis and a turgid use post-truth mechanisms. The main conclusion is that these mechanisms post-truth evidence, more than the intention of informing, the objective of criticizing and indirectly influencing readers when evaluating Urresti's candidacy.