Os removidos segundo a imprensa: o tema do remanejamento compulsório na mídia tradicional

Abstract

This study aims to point out the way Rio de Janeiro state communications media have been, for more than one century, corroborating with removal policies in the capital. For that, after a more general approach on removals since the beginning of the XX century until the present days, two moments have been detailed: the removals that took place in 1964, which resulted in the compulsory moving of thousands of families from slums into the Vila Kennedy and Vila Aliança housing complexes; and the present moment in which the municipal administration, starting in 2009, has restarted the population removal policy in the capital, with the compulsory moving of more than 80 thousand people out of their homes. In the first case, the analysis focuses on how these population removals have been covered by the newspaper O Globo in 1964, which created a prize they called "Adaptation", to be awarded to the family that better adapted to that new life. In the second case, about the same paper coverage on this subject, comprehending the year 2009, to after that establish a parallel between the two periods. This study’s central argument is that, in order to understand why the policy of removals go through decades in Rio, the conservative media must be seen as one of the actors to be observed, besides the public authorities, the real estate market, the middle class as the target public of this newspaper and the low income population that is kept under the removal specter.