Enquadramentos noticiosos construídos pelos portais g1 e mundo negro sobre um caso de racismo: variações do mesmo tema

Abstract

In this study we address racism in Brazilian journalism, presenting framings created by the hegemonic white media (represented by G1) and news produced by the alternative black media (represented by Mundo Negro) on the theft of an electric bicycle in June 2021 in Leblon, a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. The objective is to assess how racism, symbolic violence and the anti-racist movement are manifested in the journalistic frames chosen by G1 and Mundo Negro when covering the case of a bicycle theft in Leblon. We question the extent to which a traditional news portal managed by white individuals has an impact on journalistic discourse involving black bodies, and points to the need to strengthen anti-racist media. In methodological terms, this study was produced from the articulation between bibliographic research and case study. We compare the 15 pieces on the bicycle theft that make up the corpus (11 from G1 and 4 from Mundo Negro). The links between racist and anti-racist speeches provide the basis for discussing the importance of creating Afrocentric frameworks. The research is based on theoretical approaches that support the existence of structural racism in Brazilian society and, above all, on researchers who study racism in the hegemonic white media through framings that are stigmatized, biased and/or make the black population invisible. By analyzing a period of two months after the occurrence of the case on which the study is centered, apart for some headlines that go beyond the initial time frame, we show that media racism is present in several coverages constructed by the hegemonic white media. The research results confirm that the framings created by G1 showed biased and implicitly racist speeches, while Mundo Negro generated speeches with clear anti-racist tendencies.