Novas fronteiras telejornalísticas: o uso das imagens de câmeras de vigilância na produção noticiosa

Abstract

Scenes captured by surveillance cameras are increasingly present in the news production process on Brazilian TV newscasts. Based on this assumption, we seek to point out, from a bibliographic review, the main aspects that constitute the relationship between contemporary television news production and the use of video surveillance equipment images in the news narrative, based on discussions in doctoral research that is under development in the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Ceará. Thus, we present in the text below conceptual and theoretical aspects, both in the field of Journalism, and regarding the theme of surveillance, which can help us to understand the reasons for the appropriation of these images by the media. As a way of advancing the discussion, we propose that the use of content from surveillance cameras gains strength in telejournalism, in theory, by linking to a journalistic claim that is guided by transposing reality to the TV screen “as it is”, reinforcing myths such as that journalistic impartiality.