Violence, policy andideology in thepagesofthenewspaperO Globo in theyearsof 1994 and 1995
O Globo, war, fear, policy,public security
The media are not simply transmitters of information no ractas neutral mediators in the public debate. News papers actively participate in structuring the publics phereand have a great power to institute the public agenda. This work tries to show the strategies of the news paper O Globo in the construction of the "culture of fear" and "warmetaphor", that impelled the implementation of repressive, prejudice dand bellicose policies of policeaction. Base donthe quantitative and qualitative analysis of the first page reports related to public security in Rio de Janeiro between 1994 and 1995, we sought to show that the news paperO Globo, through its discursive resources, influenced the hardening of policeactions, especially in relation to the poorestsections of society, Culminating in the militarization of public security through Operations RIO I and II and the political weakening of Leonel Brizola and his ideals of guaranteeing human right sandof a police action focuse don the defense of the citizen. We search to reveal the hegemonies present in the wayO Globohascut, classified and hierarchized reality. Regarding ideological aspects, we sought to make explicit that the news paper tended to reinforce the diffusion of fear, especially when such a sensation could beused to guarantee its ideological, economic and political interests, even though the journal it self was defined as a vehicle of critical communication, non-partisan, and independent of government so reconomic groups. The figures of language that reinforce these ideologicalelement sand structure the interpretative model present in the news papers point towhatwe understand to be the production of a culture of fear and the metaphor of war. In problematizing naturalized ideologicalelements in O Globo, we seek to contribute to the critical aware ness reaching all actors related to public security: journalists, police, population and government.