Acesso do surdo a informação actualizada sobre a Covid-19 no telejornal da Televisão de Moçambique

Abstract

The new coronavirus is a worldwide pandemic. Therefore, the information about the disease must also be widely and globally accessible, considering the diversity of the public and the existence of groups with special and specific needs that, in the meantime, are also affected by the pandemic. This access to information, besides being an ethical principle, is also one of the human rights that is legislated in Mozambique. The present research proposed to evaluate the implementation, by TVM, of the right of access to information by the deaf about covid-19 disseminated in the TV news, between the years 2020 and 2021. The analysis was carried out in 10 editions of the TV news randomly selected. As for the methodology, content analysis was used, interview and questionnaire were applied as data collection techniques, as well as bibliographical research was applied, the latter culminating with the use of the Theory of Social Responsibility of the Press (TRSI) as a basis, in addition to other concepts equally important for the work. From the analysis made it could be seen that in the TVM news, a public television, the right of access to information about the covid-19 is denied to the deaf because there is no window of interpretation of news for sign language in that news block. The news about the disease given on TVM does not reach all citizens, the target audience is segregated. Furthermore, the lack of access to information makes the hearing-impaired person have little knowledge about covid-19, consequently conditioning their ability to prevent the disease, among others.