This article evaluates the journalistic framing by corportative media, which legitimize and mediate the public agenda and Rio de Janeiro's public security policy strategy, using the news coverage of the protests in the city streets ​​during the "Furious June". Drawing on the stereotypical use of semantics for journalistic fact reporting by the press, the creation of a collective social imagination will be evaluated as a public space of dispute for hegemony as in Gramsci's conception, mediatically criminalizing the poor areas of the city of Rio de Janeiro with the aim of controling public order.