Telejornalismo policial e a legitimação do senso comum conservador em dois universos de recepção

Abstract

From an argumentation that supports the idea that television, while mass communication vehicle, due to features that are specific of this socio-technical media, can still largely legitimate social representations existing in a certain group, this study investigates the role played in this process by one of the television products of greater impact in Brazil: the police TV newscasts. On attempts here to make evident some fundamental constraints from own context of production of these programs, from a case study fruit of an ethnography held in the newsroom of a local police TV newscast. It is analyzed here, in what is significant for the argumentative purposes of this text, shape and content of the message sent by these programs and is investigated by comparison between two distinct class universes of receiving this message. The goal in adopting this approach, which tries to account for the areas of production, the text itself and the reception, is to understand relationally a complex mechanism of construction and legitimation of world views in a given social universe. And these world views have conservative nature, in correspondence with the place in the cultural industry menu occupied by police TV newscasts, as well as pertaining to a particular position in the social space occupied by those who watch and reproduce opinions similar to that conveyed through those ubiquitous TV programs.