Discurso da violência urbana e agendamento na mídia radiofônica: um estudo do caso Marcelo Pesseghini

Abstract

This work addresses the issue related to the influence and power of radio media, highlighting an episode of repercussion in the national press: the Marcelo Pesseghini case. When we look at the present episode, the question arises as to the scope of this media influence, whether the journalistic coverage is acting as a source of values and behaviors, or even directing public decision-making. In order to investigate this phenomenon, we analyzed a corpus consisting of news broadcast in the radio media about the mentioned case, with the purpose of demonstrating how the scheduling of radio media occurs and how media discourses in the news of urban violence come into the picture. We also sought to identify the elements that compose the construction of radiophonic discourse on the specific case of urban violence, in addition to mapping the discursive formations that are presented in news snippets taken as a corpus. Finally, we try to establish possible relations between the scheduling of radio media, the construction of the discourse of urban violence and the formation of public opinion. As a result of this research emerged some categories that were listed as the continuation of the media discourse underlying the specific episode. Our methodology involves the use of elements present in French discourse analysis (DA), such as discursive formation (DF), linked to the agenda-setting assumptions, using a qualitative approach and, specifically, the case study. Our theoretical references range from assumptions of radio and journalism theories, using authors such as Prado (1985), Haye (2005), McCombs and Shaw (1972) and Shoemaker (2011), to linguistic theory supported by the discourse analysis (DA), based on authors such as Foucault (2008), Pêcheux (1993) and Orlandi (2015). In the end, we conclude that the chosen news and the highlighted elements proves the influence of radio media and the direction of ideas considering what has been reported about the case in question. They also reveal how the radio media incites a truth value to the pre-judgments and investigations carried out by journalism itself.