The challenges of speaking out: approaches to mediated testimony from reports about violence against women in Brazil

Abstract

This article attempts to reflect on the nature of the testimony of midiatic texts and their confrontation with individual testimony, using two specific cases. The reflection developed here is driven toward a brief textual analysis of two news stories circulated by Brazilian television news programs, regarding two events linked to violence against women. The question is raised, here, both as to what it means to take these texts as "testimonial texts"" as well as about the quality (if any) of the testimony presented therein. Even considering that that the notion of ""media witness"" appears at first as strong and instigating, it cannot be generalized to any and all miditiac text at the risk of losing its strength and producing easy homogenizations."

Keywords

• testemunho
• violência
• gênero
• jornalismo
• narrativa