ABSTRACT

The article examines how O Globo (OG) – a newspaper affiliated to the most important Brazilian media conglomerate – addressed the impeachment processes of former presidents Fernando Collor (1992) and Dilma Rousseff (2016) through its editorials. The investigation aims to identify which arguments OG used to hold its editorial positions and compare possible differences in its stances concerning both crises. By applying content analysis to 191 editorials, our study focuses on (1) the reasons for and against the impeachments processes the texts defended; (2) the political solutions they proposed; and (3) the consequences OG forecasted after the impeachments. The results indicate a lack of interest in covering the 1992 crisis, when OG resisted endorsing Collor’s deposition. However, the newspaper played an active role throughout Rousseff's impeachment, mobilizing an increasing volume of editorials and using economic arguments to legitimize the then-president removal. The article reveals the tensions arising between parallelism and instrumentalization in peripheral media systems. Plus, we propose three media parallelism dimensions (single-occasion parallelism, agenda parallelism, and coalition parallelism) to complement the concept traditionally used in Political Communication scholarship.

摘要

本文探讨了O Globo隶属于巴西最重要的媒体集团的报纸（OG）通过社论对前总统费尔南多·科洛尔（1992）和迪尔玛·罗塞夫（2016）的弹each程序进行了探讨。该调查旨在确定OG曾使用哪些论点来担任其编辑职务，并比较其对两种危机的立场可能存在的差异。通过对191篇社论进行内容分析，我们的研究集中在（1）支持和反对弹each过程的理由，以防止案文被捍卫；（2）他们提出的政治解决方案；（3）弹after后OG预测的后果。结果表明，在OG拒绝认可Collor的证词时，对掩盖1992年危机的兴趣不足。但是，在罗塞夫（Rousseff）的弹throughout过程中，报纸发挥了积极作用，动员越来越多的社论，并利用经济论点将当时的总统撤职合法化。本文揭示了并行处理和外围媒体系统中的工具化之间产生的张力。此外，我们提出了三个媒体并行度维度（单场合并行度，议程并行度和联盟并行度），以补充传统上用于政治传播奖学金的概念。