DERECHO AL HONOR VS. MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN: UNA PROPUESTA DE SOLUCIÓN DESDE LA PONDERACIÓN

The article proposes to base the solution of the possible collisions between the right to honor and the rights associated with the media; to this end, legal doctrinal and historicla legal analysis methods are used. It is conclueded that the deployment of the rights associated with the media (freedom of the press and expression, and the right to information), and the technological development of said media, has made possible the massive dissemiantion of information and opinios, which when they are wrong or not contrasted, tend to violate the right to honor people and institutions, helping to form on these socially rephrensible opinion states. This situation has been resolved by means of weighting and non-application rules, in the judicial way, after the appearance of the conflict; and through anticipatory guarantees, such as the implementation of rights attached to the rsponse and rectification.