Informação ambiental: uma análise das matérias veiculadas nos jornais Diário do Nordeste e O Povo sobre degradação ambiental

Abstract

The present study is to examine how information about the preservation of the environment and the risks posed by its growing degradation is treated by the media, giving special attention to print media. To this end, we analyzed 16 articles published in the newspaper Diário do Nordeste, from September 2007 to November 2008, and in the newspaper O Povo, from February 2007 to July 2008. These communication vehicles were chosen because they are characterized as the most widely circulated periodicals in the city of Fortaleza. We adopted the technique as a method of content analysis, aiming to observe them in notebooks or editorial matters relating to the preservation of the environment more appear and in what form appeared. For this, the materials examined were separated into five categories: scrub, fires, warter shortages (drought), social responsibility and global warming. In conclusion, we realize that environmental issues are increasingly present in everyday general population, especially with regard to the urgent challenge of its preservation. The print media plays an important role in the civil society to inform and disseminate information on the subject.