On news and facts: speculations on sports´ news

Abstract

This paper focuses on the news´ interconnections with sociability, as an effort to analyse a particular situation: the one of a radio station in Belo Horizonte, that, in 2006, broadcasted for more than 60 days news based solely on speculations, without any proven facts. This article considers that such news were accepted not for its accuracy but for being part of an everyday routine of both radio station and its listeners.