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

Authors

  • Ivan Paganotti Digicorp-ECA-USP / Universidade Anhembi Morumbi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-6924.2016v13n1p131

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 21st 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.

Author Biography

Ivan Paganotti, Digicorp-ECA-USP / Universidade Anhembi Morumbi

Doutor em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP), com doutorado-sanduíche na Universidade do Minho (Braga/Portugal). Professor dos cursos de pós-graduação lato sensu do Digicorp/ECA-USP e da Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, membro do “Observatório de Comunicação, Liberdade de Expressão e Censura” (OBCOM-USP) e do “Grupo de Estudos de Linguagem: Práticas Midiáticas” (Midiato/ECA-USP)

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Published

2016-11-25

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2016): Profissão, Processos e Percursos

Section

Temas Livres

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