Greg News Program: An analysis of journalism, entertainment and legitimation of opinion

Abstract

This chapter aims to discuss the relations between journalism and infotainment in contemporary society. From bibliographic research that unveils a historical contradiction constitutive of the journalistic field in Modernity – the polarity between fulfilling an educational function or an entertainment function –, we conducted a case study on an audiovisual program self-described as "humorous news" with the objective of discussing, from authors of studies in journalism, the strategy of infotainment, Contemporary hybrid format that fuses journalistic information with entertainment. The case study was centered on the episode "Refugees" of the Greg News program, aired on the HBO Brazil pay-tv channel.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/uniknowindevolp-034