“PEN STYLES”, ENVIRONMENT AND COVID 19

HOW THE NEWSPAPER FOLHA DE S. PAULO REPORTED THE “PASSING OF THE CATTLE” OF THE BOLSONARO GOVERNMENT IN 2020

Abstract

This paper proposes a reflection on how journalistic coverage at the height of the coronavirus pandemic was supposedly used as a shield for the commission of acts in disfavor of the environment by the Government of then President Jair Messias Bolsonaro. We seek to understand how the news vehicle chosen for the research covered these facts. To this end, a mapping of government actions will be carried out from May to August 2020, totaling the four months with high rates of Covid-19 cases, during the pandemic in Brazil, as well as the journalistic records of these actions in this period in the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo (printed version). Through Content Analysis, the news will be mapped by categories, soon after the Critical Analysis of the Narrative of the selected reports will be carried out. Then, the result is discussed in view of the data from the bibliographical research on environmental journalism in Brazil, as well as on the illegalities committed by the Bolsonaro government. Thus, the collected data are confronted with the theoretical contributions, seeking evidence of the acts committed in the national political context in the environmental agendas in the period.