O pânico moral no Rio de Janeiro: análise da cobertura dos eventos de violência de novembro de 2010

Abstract

The objective of this article is to prepare a coherent methodology to study how four different newspapers from Rio de Janeiro, O Globo, Extra, O Dia and Meia-Hora de Noticías, reported the armed combats between the organized crime forces and the police. In the period between wednesday November 24th of 2010 and Monday November 28th , this article pretend to avail how the victories and setbacks of the police action were reported by this selected newspapers. Through the tradition of moral panic studies, we analyze others events of violence on the years of 2002/2003. Complementary concepts like virtual victim, territoriality and euphoria will also be used to consolidate this research. The use of the concept in the scenario of urban violence and its diffuse intentionality will be the core of this dissertation. Through its originality, this work pretends to extend the perception and the signification of how the people, the state, the press and the criminal groups share these moments of extreme tension and militarization of the carioca urban violence. The way that the criminal news develops in Rio de Janeiro sometimes allows to question the journalistic impartiality that many of these vehicles of communication preaches in its manuals. How the people of Rio de Janeiro reacts about these tangled storylines - full of varied feelings like fear, unsafeness, optimism and revenge images of a particular moment in the history of the everyday in a frightened city