A identidade das vítimas na representação da violência no telejornalismo: a cobertura do JN e do Profissão Repórter no território dos morros cariocas

Abstract

In TV news and reporting programs the issue of violence in large cities of Brazil is present with great frequency. Through images and texts the television news help build the image of society in different aspects: security, territory, hills, areas of risk, slums, as well as the characters that inhabit these places. In this work the proposal is analyze the representation of Rio hills and slums in journalistic narratives taken as a reference for the construction of the imaginary over these places, and relate them to recent media coverage about the conflicts between police and traffickers and the process of reoccupation or peacemaking in Morro do Alemão and Rocinha Slum in Rio de Janeiro. As a method of empirical investigation conducted to analyze issues of Jornal Nacional and Profissão Reporter, in search of the identity of victims of violence that emerged in this kind of television journalism drama.