Visíveis quando conveniente: o discurso jornalístico local sobre os povos indígenas no RS

Abstract

In this research, we analyze the formulation of journalistic discourse on indigenous issues in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. For this, we are anchored in the theoretical-methodological assumptions of Discourse Analysis with the purpose of studying how local newspapers, through their online portals, contribute to sustain and institutionalize certain effects of meaning on the Kaingang Peoples. Considering that in 2017 several bills were passed that intended to organize the social space and constituted a threat to the rights of indigenous peoples, among which we highlight the thesis of the Temporal Framework, we aim to of understanding the meanings produced by two communication vehicles in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul about the Kaingang peoples of the Medium Upper Uruguay micro-region, where the UFSM campus Frederico Westphalen and the Indigenous Lands Guarita, Iraí, Nonoai/Rio da Várzea and Votouro/Kandoia are located, three specific objectives were listed:: a) Understanding the role of media visibility in the construction of discursive memory about the peoples originating; b) Explore the construction of the Lead as one of the possible conditions for the production of journalistic discourse; c) Problematize the formulation of four news, published in 2017, selected from two local journalistic portals, close to the Guarita Indigenous Land, the largest in the state. For this, we selected eleven Discursive Sequences where we launched the analysis on the Lead technique. We observed that this technique is one of the conditions for the production of journalistic discourse in the strict sense, aiming to define what should and should not appear at the beginning of a news item and that the most emphasized questions were "What", "Where" and "Who", while "Why", "How" and "When" were more muted. This emphasis on the "What" and the "Where" directs the focus of the public debate to the blockade of traffic on the federal highway, instead of going deeper into the reason for the protests. Thus, this analysis opens space for us to discuss a journalism formulated from other discursive formations, which give greater visibility to the "Why" and can better articulate indigenous issues in the public debate.