El riesgo de la desinformación en la ficción basada en hechos realesThe Thing About Pam (o la cosa de justificar al criminal)

  1. Gastón Lorente, Lucía 1
  2. Gómez-Baceiredo, Beatriz 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Navarra
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    Universidad de Navarra

    Pamplona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02rxc7m23

Revista:
Estudios sobre el mensaje periodístico

ISSN: 1988-2696

Ano de publicación: 2022

Título do exemplar: ¿Crisis de la mediación? Periodismo, política y ciudadanía ante la desinformación

Volume: 28

Páxinas: 817-826

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.5209/ESMP.82841 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Outras publicacións en: Estudios sobre el mensaje periodístico

Resumo

This article compares the NBC miniseries The Thing About Pam (2022) with the podcast on which it is based in order to decide if fiction can misinform the audience through the characterization of characters that are based on real people. The miniseries is a prime example of a recent trend: the production of fictions that are based on journalistic works and that tell the story about women that have committed a crime. After accomplishing a comparative and interpretative analysis about the series' main character characterization, we conclude that the fiction reinforces the features already set out by the podcast, but somehow justify the behavior of the main character with an explanation that has nothing to do with the podcast’s findings. This justification together with the use of the same narrator in both works may misinform the audience about a real story whose trial has not been held yet.

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