Cobertura midiática sobre a Lei Antiterrorismo: análise dos veículos de comunicação sobre políticas públicas

Abstract

This final paper has the intention of understanding how the Brazilian's Press coverage about the discussion and approval of the Antiterrorism law was made. The magnitude and impact of the public policies in the society give due relevance to this paper. The living context related to security in Brazil inspired the choice of this theme. From the Content Analysis method of reporting produced by the main public and private media vehicles, within the authors read to justify this paper, there are Maxwell McCombs (2009) and Mauro Wolf (2006), with the contribution about the mass effects caused by the media outlet, Maria Helena Castro(2008) and Luiz Gonzaga Motta (2008) to understand better how is the news cover work reality about public policies and find out some conditions to discuss the theme in an appropriate way. Between the results, it was possible to realize that the media contextualized a lot the previous historic aspects and the own proceeding project, it also informed the population about the new law's impacts but it didn't open suitable space to the relevant sectors to debate the project about the Antiterrorism law.