Crise aérea e comunicação: o acidente do vôo 3054 da TAM à sombra da mídia

Abstract

This research work attempts to comprehend the way through which the media is capable of distorting, amplifying, minimizing, creating or hiding perceived realities, as it follows the ideological line (named "editorial line"), although usually it is not assumed. It is understood that there is a relationship between the State, the market and the media as institutions that maintain power over society. Corporate media, as a group of companies, is aligned with the market in two ways: through means of prot, common to any capitalist corporation, and as a representative of ideologically hidden interests. With this in mind, the research work investigated the roots of the contemporary cultural context, focusing on a serious crisis in the Brazilian airline market, a crisis which culminated in an airplane accident with 199 deaths. In this event, the media made it clear that the market dominated over the State, with respect to the first reality (to the following of regulations and physical limitations) as well as the second reality (weakening of the State and defending the hypothesis that the market regulates itself following natural laws, which are ideologically built). We investigated how the methods that are appropriate to the analysis of physical and biological phenomena, when applied in journalism, hide the essential causes of that which is investigated, well as the possible interests, and how this approach has been ideologically used in different Communication Schools as well as by journalistic work. The research work focused on media coverage by the electronic version of the Folha de São Paulo newspaper (Folha Online) related to the developments of the airline crisis up to the point of the TAM Flight 3054 disaster. Thereafter, it focused on three facts which, as covered by the general media, could not be clearly understood or interpreted by the general public