Os meios de comunicação, a política externa brasileira e a opinião pública : O tratamento editorial da "crise" venezuelana nos editoriais da Folha de S. Paulo e do Estado de S. Paulo

O tratamento editorial da "crise" venezuelana nos editoriais da Folha de S. Paulo e do Estado de S. Paulo

Abstract

Baum and Potter (2018) frame the media as an independent strategic actor and with different incentives and preferences. Given the position of media groups as mediators of information in the midst of two other important actors in the conduct of foreign policy - decision makers and public opinion - the objective here is to analyze two corpus: the first composed of editorials from Folha de S. Paulo and O Estado de S. Paulo; and another containing the speeches released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in order to understand the interactions of this triangulation of actors in the case of the Venezuelan crisis, specifically between March and September 2017, a period that corresponds to the convening of the National Constituent Assembly in Venezuela. The main results point to the existence of alignment in the considerations between the decision makers, the evaluated media groups and the Brazilian public opinion about the Venezuelan crisis, although the incentives and interests that mobilize them are different. The methods used are the semantic analysis of the editorials; content analysis regarding the speeches released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; as for public opinion data, statistical analysis was used.