MÍDIA E RELIGIÃO: A IGREJA CATÓLICA RETRATADA NOS PRINCIPAIS VEÍCULOS DE COMUNICAÇÃO DE MASSA DA GRANDE VITÓRIA-ES

Abstract

This work investigates the media relations between the Catholic Church's religious issues in the main communication networks of Vitória/ES – Gazeta, Notícia Agora and Tribuna - and focuses on the print media, although it also analyzes the mediation of other ways that guide this process, especially the Internet. Beyond the bibliographical research, interviews were made with professionals from the communication vehicles, who are the directly involved in the selection of the disclosed contents. Although late, the media interest also permeates the Catholic Church, which has two groups that work on these aspects: the Pastoral of Communication and the Ministry of Communication. They are groups that keep the media informed about the events, mainly Church events. After this process, this work analyzes the main religious subjects of the mass vehicles, highlighting the international, national and local matters, and with the help of the Communication Theories, it is understood aspects of the way how the media considers the news fact. The theoretical-methodological framework was set up with the perspective of current authors, and thus it sought coherence with the journalistic research. In this way, it was diagnosed, within the criteria of selection of the news, the way how the approach is done, either through textual, iconographic or layout, because when the subject is religion, the news is portrayed differently by these networks.