Framing of a Brazilian Crisis: Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment in National and International Editorials

ABSTRACT

The study analyzes the editorial position of the Brazilian and foreign press in the coverage of Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment trial. By a framing analysis, we aim to understand how the national quality newspapers such as Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo, O Globo, and the international ones as Público, El País, The Guardian, Le Monde and The New York Times organize the events and construct the respective political narratives, verifying the similarities and differences in the interpretation of the political crisis that led to the removal of the first female president of Brazil.

KEYWORDS:

• Brazilian crisis
• editorials
• framing
• impeachment
• politics
• journalistic events

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Liziane Guazina http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4765-6918

Hélder Prior http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8971-3469

Bruno Araújo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8288-2718

Notes

1. We emphasize Kuypers’ (2010) understanding that the framings are used strategically in function of certain persuasion objectives. That is, as a discursive construction that generates certain effects (Mendonça and Simões 2012).