O lugar social da criança no jornalismo: uma análise do Repórter Rá-Teen-Bum

Abstract

This research investigates Brazilian children's journalism from a study of Reporter Ra-Teen-Bum, aired from 2016 to 2018, on TV Cultura and TV Ra-Tim-Bum. The goal is to analyze children's participation and the values-news adopted by the program. To achieve this proposal, we opted for a research of basic nature, exploratory objective, qualitative approach through a documentary study. To compose the corpus, the 36 episodes of Reporter Ra-Teen-Bum, available on YouTube, were chosen. The specific purpose was to know the place children and adolescents occupied in the stories and reports, based on the defense of child protagonism pointed out by the Sociology of Childhood. As well as the right to participation ensured by the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). It was also sought to observe which issues the Reporter Ra-Teen-Bum chose to offer to its audience and for that the criteria of value-notice elaborated by Silva (2005) were used. About the program, we also approached details of the frames, scenery, language, logo, soundtrack, among other information. The result of the analysis indicates that Reporter Ra-Teen-Bum tried to offer entertainment to its audience through stories of children and teenagers that do exotic things or are inserted in an unusual reality. It was through this line that the program debated several issues with its audience and it was from these issues that we can identify some mistakes made by RTB, such as not respecting the age group to which the product chose to be aimed. Sometimes, topics of little or no interest to children up to ten years old were presented, and words that are not usual for this group were used. But our research also pointed us to the promotion of a child and teen protagonism in the contents, as we noticed the predominance of children and teenagers as the protagonists of the stories and reports. The program offered a place for this group to speak, allowing them to express themselves in their own way. Thus, we conclude that the Reporter Ra-Teen-Bum reached what the Childhood Sociology defends, which claims this prominence to the children. Besides having fulfilled two important articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which assures the right that this public has to receive age-appropriate information and to be heard in the most diverse spaces, such as journalism.