This article analyzes how El Comercio newspaper covered the political corruption case of Jorge Glas on its front pages. Discourse analysis and the framing category were used to study the construction of the media discourse. Reader interviews were conducted to gather their impressions. The results showed a polarized discourse that emphasized morality and justice, personalizing corruption in Jorge Glas and giving greater weight to judicial sources. The study concludes that El Comercio's coverage had a simplistic perspective, focused on the individual and not on the political and social context surrounding corruption