Distortion and Misinformation in the Television Journalism about the Brazilian Semiarid

Abstract

The distorted and stereotyped view of the Brazilian Semiarid insists on predominating in journalistic productions on these territories. On TV, the treatment of the news culminates in misinformation. This article intends to show how the re-signification of a content can completely alter the initial proposal of a journalistic production, after the re-editing of the content to fit it within the desired editorial line. Two subjects were analyzed, the original, produced by TV Caatinga and the version of the aforementioned report republished by TV Cultura. To do so, we used the Contrastive Ethno-research to deepen the studied phenomenon in order to understand it jointly apprehend it, create relationships, encompass, combine and conjugate it. At the end of the analysis, it was observed a complete adulteration of the original version, which not only compromised the proposal of the initial content, as drastically altered its meaning to reinforce a negative and distorted image on the semiarid territories.