Violência policial e racismo: reflexos do pacto da branquitude na produção jornalística do Jornal Nacional e do Repórter Brasil

Abstract

This master's thesis was developed with the aim of analyzing how the whiteness manifests itself in the news coverage of police violence cases against black people in Brazil. The hypothesis that guides the study, understands that there is a negligent exemption on the part of journalistic production dominated by white professionals, which does not assume, in its coverage, racism as one of the motivators of the violent acting from the police, which implies the denial of the problem and prevents debate about public safety in its complexity. Using Televisual Analysis (Becker, 2005, 2012) as methodology, we analyzed the news programs Rede Globo's Jornal Nacional and TV Brasil's Repórter Brasil, seeking to diagnose the incidence of the use of the word "racismo" in the sample of news collected in both news programs, between the years of 2022 and 2023. The results found point to coverage without depth and, above all, silent, one of the strong characteristics of the whiteness pact. What we aim to achieve with this study, is to raise thoughts about the possible impacts of the absence of the race debate in journalistic coverage about police violence to maintain the logic that criminalizes the black population and normalizes their suffering and death.