Livrai-nos do mal a tecnologia do imaginário na construção do heroi Moro pela mídia

Abstract

The year 2016 marked the history of the country due to the impeachment of (former) President Dilma Rousseff. Among the characters that stood out in that episode, Judge Sérgio Moro (responsible for judging those involved in Operation Lava Jato) was one of the most outstanding. His performance was decisive to boost the demonstrations that culminated in the fall of the president, especially the announcement of the audio between former presidents Lula and Dilma. In many of these manifestations people evoked the magistrate as a hero and in the media itself he was an ever-present figure. Considering this context we start from the following question: to what extent the Brazilian media was able to create the hero Sergio Moro for a nation from a narrative-imagery operation contained in reports and opinion texts, (in particular, the Gazeta of the People - the largest newspaper in circulation in Paraná)? The hypothesis is that the great Brazilian media (because it has the power of discourse involving the imaginary materialized by its technologies) has the capacity to forge heroes that allow people to mirror and trust them and the Moro judge is one of those creations. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to unveil the construction of the hero Sergio Moro, by the Brazilian media (using as perspective the newspaper with the largest circulation in the capital of Paraná in 2016, Gazeta do Povo), using imaginary technology. For this, we use Comprehensive Sociology and Imaginary Technologies as a methodology with the corpus composed of stories from the midias Gazeta do Povo, Brazil 247, Brazil Fact and Esmael Blog. Thus, the thesis defended is that the media (with emphasis on the written press) as the technology of the imaginary, by its seductive power, can, by means of its narratives, constitute heroes (as well as villains) potential saviors of the motherland - and in that research, in particular, we talk about Brazil. In our case studied, the media constructed the hero Moro, from his general quarter, the Republic of Curitiba.The authors who guided us in this endeavor were Michel Maffesoli, Juremir Machado da Silva and Gilbert Durand, among others. Our study considered that the imagery of Moro's protagonism in the actions that shook the country supported (almost) involuntarily the willingness of the media to present him and as a hero to an entire country.