Jornalismo político e discurso: a parcialidade nas eleições municipais de 2024 no portal CM7

Abstract

This work aims to identify how the Amazonian news portal CM7 presented biases during its journalistic coverage of the 2024 municipal elections in Manaus (AM). The research falls within the fields of political journalism and digital journalism, based on the understanding that online news portals play a central role in mediating public debate, especially during election periods, in which the symbolic dispute over meaning intensifies. This is a qualitative, descriptive, and documentary research study focused on the analysis of political discourse in digital journalism. It sought to understand how the discourse produced by the CM7 portal can reveal ideological positions, favoring or disfavoring certain political actors through linguistic, stylistic, and narrative choices. The investigation adopted Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as its methodology, grounded in the theoretical contributions of authors such as Norman Fairclough and Taun A. van Dijk. The research corpus consists of articles published by the CM7 portal between October 7th and 27th, 2024, a period corresponding to the second round of municipal elections in Manaus. The analysis focused on identifying discursive strategies, narrative framing, and linguistic markers that reveal mechanisms for constructing meaning and valuing political actors. The results contribute to understanding the discursive practices adopted by the analyzed portal and to reflecting on the challenges of impartiality in contemporary political journalism, highlighting the role of digital media in the production and circulation of meaning in electoral and democratic contexts.