Modos narrativos de fazer mundos: jornalismo, ficção e verdade/Narrative ways of world making: journalism, fiction and truth

Despite their efforts, authors who put forward the constructivist notion of news as narratives remained trapped within the paradigm of journalism as a mirror of reality. The alternative developed here aims to radicalize the idea of journalism as poetic activity of world making. To do so, we must first abandon the myth of objectivity and dislodge the primacy of the notion of truth as correspondence with reality, without falling through the slippery slope of relativism. We shall propose other criteria for grounding the validity of journalistic discourse: no longer the objectivist view that insists on getting the "facts" as they allegedly happened, but an hermeneutic approach that reflects upon the fertility of the perspectives newspapers brings to the public sphere.