Límites de la libertad de expresión y derechos de la comunicación: análisis del caso “quemada con ácido” publicado por diario el extra y sancionado por la SUPERCOM

Abstract

This monograph is related to the Study of the news published by Diario Extra in July 31st, 2015 headlined Burned with Acid. This event was sanctioned by the Superintendence of Information and Communication and due to the constitutional rules currents in our country; it was given by media in which was a treatment morbid into the information been attacked against of the right of human’s dignity.

To understand the scope of the given sanction, it was necessary to analyze what happens when they look in apparent conflict of two or more rights, in this case freedom of expression against human’s dignity; Likewise, at the moment of assessing by the judge, it must apply a balancing test considering that human’s dignity is the center in which are derived other rights. It should be emphasized that there is a lot of media that are dedicated to the production of sensationalist contents and police blotter which are the same that instead of profiting, violate the citizen’s rights, who by their lack of knowledge or extreme poverty their rights are violated.