(Tele)informar é tomar partido? Uma análise sobre as representações das políticas públicas de educação no jornalismo audiovisual brasileiro

Abstract

Over just over 70 years of existence, Brazilian television journalism has become a place of reference and access to information for the entire population. Through the contents aired on TV, the public began to inform themselves, create opinions, become aware of the world in which they are inserted and become aware of the problems and events that surround them. In this sense, the purpose of our work is to analyze, through the methodology of the Analysis of Audiovisual Materiality (COUTINHO, 2016), the news published about Brazilian Educational Public Policies during the first year of the Jair Bolsonaro government (2019) by the newscast with the highest audience on Brazilian open TV, Jornal Nacional. We highlight the centrality of television news as a form of knowledge for the majority of the Brazilian population to question the way in which information is transmitted (or ceases to be) to its viewers. Our guiding hypothesis is that it is not possible to recognize, from the reality shown on television news, what the Public Education Policies of the Bolsonaro government are, nor the way in which Education was proposed. The circulated information about Education seemed to signal an individualized offer, not constituting a Public Policy. We believe that it is the role of telejournalism to reinforce that Education is everyone's right and not an individual choice. Our hypothesis, confirmed, is that there is no coverage on the subject as a social policy, of the State, by Jornal Nacional. Consequently, JN ends up failing to comply with the principles of TV – to educate, inform and entertain –, just as it does not adopt the guiding role for the population.