The quality of information from communication media is a topic that has been dealt
with by various theorists through the analysis of the final products of information.
This research work offers an analysis model of the quality of information of printed
news media by the use of three indexes of categories and structured dimensions
that will allow for the assessment and evaluation of the quality of information from
the media, and the identification of the incidence of political-economic conditions
of the journalistic environment’s macro-environment. For this, an experimental test
of two Venezuelan media outlets was performed. Their use allowed us to conclude
that political polarization and discourse of social confrontation, as well as economic
factors such as inflation and pay scales had a proportionally direct effect on the quality
of information products