Leituras da Floresta - a construção da Amazônia na mídia impressa brasileira

Abstract

This work has as objective to establish a comparative study between journalistic strategies of agenda construction on the Amazônia developed by three daily Brazilians (A Crítica, O Liberal e Folha de São Paulo), and in such a way searches to identify thematic, justifications of the notified events, sources of information had access and felt ranks in circulation in the reporter published during the year of 1999. The first chapter detaches theoretical referential. In the second chapter, from a walk through of studies, approaches the relations between journalistic media and Amazon region. In the third chapter we look for to evidence the forms for which each studied periodical offers sensible on the Amazônia for its readers. The fourth chapter, the handling of the Amazônia as question for the journalism, through the shock of the institutions. The analysis allowed to conclude that the intensive and dramatical covering of the Amazônia made for the media intensifies myths concerning the region as "a forest without men", open and inexhaustible border for economic investments, a patrimony to be watched and defended of constant threats, a mythical space to be preserved for the redemption of the humanity and the economic progress.