Economic waves beyond measures: incomparable Brazilian debt and wealth in the New York Times pages

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-6924.2016v13n1p131

It is possible that international media coverage can have a liberal approach when dealing with an emerging economy such as Brazil. This paper evaluates how the North-American correspondent Larry Rohter, from The New York Times, based his journalistic economic analysis on a neoliberal prescription. This newspaper can represent how a big international media debates and suggests economic reforms that involve open markets – the so-called “Washington Consensus”. This article analyzes how the economic coverage of The New York Times, during the long period of mid-1980 until the end of the first decade of the 21^st century, has shifted its evaluation on the Brazilian economy, repositioning the country between a negative pole to a more positive one, when comparing economic indexes.