1. Investigación

This article examines two major institutions widely touted in the United States as servants to communities and the general public: the government and the news media. The Flint water crisis is a textbook case in which these two institutions failed to live up to their responsibilities of accountability and transparency. The authors examine the major events during the water crisis, looking at it through the lens of government actions and how the press covered them, conducting qualitative context analysis during the irst ive months of the crisis. The analysis includes the actions of federal, state, and local agencies and the reporting of national, state, and local newspapers. Their indings show that the institutions completely imploded, with an impact on thousands of residents, many of whom happened to be minorities.

En este artículo se presentan los resultados obtenidos tras realizar un análisis comparado del tratamiento periodístico de los desastres naturales en El País y El Mundo durante los años 2009 y 2010, así como indicadores de interés social en Internet. Los objetivos del trabajo, de carácter exploratorlo, son descubrir si los valores-noticia clásicos modelan hoy la agenda informativa de los diarios, la agenda global y ciudadana y si el cuaderno de quejas en este campo de especialización tiene vigencia en la era de Internet.