Language, myth and tragedy in journalism

Abstract

The journalism, to play its role as a mediator between the public and the possessing power institutions, has as its main objective to focus on factual, appreciating by the information of news how they are. However, the professional in this field is not always able to refrain from elements subjectivist perspectives, mixing the objectivism elements that do not match your ideal concretist movement of reality, such as those from mythology and greek tragedy, for example. Starting from the reports that were published in Época, Istoé and Veja magazines about the fire that occurred at Kiss Club, in january 27th, 2013, which caused the death of several young people in the city of Santa Maria, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, this research will seek to understand how the brazilian journalism produces narratives, even denying any idealizing trace, plays archetypes that are remembered in the collective unconscious. For this purpose, we propose to examine the news focused not only on theories regarding the journalism, but also in the conceptions about the myth, greek tragedy and some settings on culture, which we believe to be remembered and restructured by the magazines in question, being raw material for the construction of new myths and for the formulation of contemporary tragedies, which arouse the emotion in public society with an objective almost always concentrated on mass sales of copies.