The truth on journalism: relations between its practice and discourse

• Main Authors: Daiane Bertasso Ribeiro, Sabrina Franzoni, Sílvia Saraiva de Macedo Lisboa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos 2011-04-01
• Series: Verso e Reverso
• Subjects: journalism; notion of truth; discourse; social knowledge of reality
• Online Access: http://www.unisinos.br/_diversos/revistas/ojs/index.php/versoereverso/article/view/789

This article proposes a theoretically approach over the relations that journalism establishes with the concept of truth. The notion of truth in Foucault leads the debate. This reflection centers on how journalism builds discursive strategies that produces effects of truth on itsreports. The journalist discourse presents itselfas truthful, although its constructive discourse of the world is a result of rules, practices and values. The debate of “truth” allows us to comprehend the complexity and particularities of journalism as a discursive practice that has reflection in the social knowledge of reality.