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The earthquake catastrophe in Venezuela has turned the news into a loop of very distressing epic rescue operations. Also of scenes of heartbreaking pain from people who know they will not find their relatives alive or who have found them too late. How many rescues are considered necessary to show in a single newscast for the viewer to understand the dimension of the tragedy? One of the differentiating factors between private and public channels is the ability to broaden the perspective. In a context of chaos, ordering information and offering a narrative that portrays reality with the complexity it deserves is what the newscasts of TV3 and TVE are doing, where correspondents and special envoys specify locations and show circumstances tangential to the disaster: the situation in hospitals, the functioning of emergency services, the saturation of cemeteries or neighborhood initiatives to offer solutions in the face of a lack of food or communication systems. Private channels, on the other hand, emphasize the most emotional aspects, especially related to the suffering associated with the countdown to find survivors under the rubble. It is symptomatic how these images are offered to the audience: always with the ambient sound of the scene, with many shouts, noise of machines and sirens in the background. These are videos recorded in a context of great tension and anguish, and therefore, they have a morbid component due to the alarm they arouse.