O direito à informação e o (ainda restrito) espaço cidadão no Jornalismo Popular impresso

Abstract

This article aims to show how the information age journalism often neglects the stimulus to citizenship, especially journalism done by the media of general circulation. These vehicles generally do not prioritize issues that contribute to the formation and critical. The analysis will be focused in newspapers popular sayings, especially Super Notícia, journal founded in 2002, which became the best-selling vehicle in the country printed, but with restricted movement to municipalities miners. The relevance of the subject is given as the popular periodicals have great movement and are often the only source of reading calls subaltern classes. For the study, we used Content Analysis. We understand that the space for community journalism is restricted, while there is an emphasis on issues related to crime, TV stars and football. However, we must find this space and not just stay in the field of criticism.