Da ilusória paz à guerra simbólica: o uso dos números para noticiar a Amazônia em anos eleitorais

Abstract

This paper investigated the use of numerical data in news reports about the Amazon during election years and observed the behaviour of the journalistic field in the search for numbers in the social space of data from the pressures of the political field. It aims to describe and analyze how journalism used data to talk about the Amazon during the presidential election years that took place between 2010 and 2022, by analyzing the reports published in the newspapers Folha de S. Paulo and Estado de S. Paulo. This is a basic, descriptive, explanatory, quantitative- qualitative and documentary study that it used Content Analysis for the descriptive analysis of the data and Multiple Correspondence Analysis to objectify the space and relational analysis of the news in the four years separately and then the correlation between them. The results indicate that the agenda on the Amazon is established through the arrangement of the game between the journalism field and the political field, causing diversification on the subject and the entry of new agents from the data space into the list of journalism sources. The vehicles are homogeneous in the first three periods, presenting specific differences evident in the way each vehicle behaved in the political game. Although the journalistic field came under strong attack in 2022, this was not enough for there to be an alliance between the outlets surveyed. Each outlet demarcated its positions according to its audience and personal dispute with the government.