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- Title
Framing populism in the pandemic: representations of Jair Bolsonaro in the journalistic coverage of Fantástico and Domingo Espetacular.
- Authors
Bernardo de Araújo, Bruno; Soares da Silva, Bruna Cardoso
- Abstract
This study analyzes the coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic in two Brazilian television news programs, specifically Fantástico from TV Globo and Domingo Espetacular from Record TV. Our objective is to study how both programs interpreted Jair Bolsonaro's positions during the crisis, marked by populist antagonism that led to a series of attacks on doctors, scientists, and intellectuals through a negationist and anti-science rhetoric. To do so, we conducted a study of a corpus of 308 news articles collected at different moments during the pandemic. The materials were scrutinized based on the intersection of content analysis and framing techniques. This approach allowed us to systematize data on the visibility of the pandemic and understand the frames of meaning proposed by the two channels in the discursivization of the former president's actions. We started with the hypothesis that the coverage exposed Record TV's alignment with the far-right government, which began during the 2018 elections, and highlighted the critical orientation assumed by TV Globo, especially regarding the figure of the president, in the face of his extremism. This sets it apart from a tradition of support for conservative rulers. The results show significant differences in the coverage of the two programs. While TV Globo openly criticized Bolsonaro's positions, aligning with the discourse of science, Record TV, affiliated with the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, embraced a discourse in line with the negationist agenda, giving voice to anti-science speeches that normalize the populism of the then-president.
- Subjects
BOLSONARO, Jair, 1955-; TELEVISION broadcasting of news; COVID-19 pandemic; PANDEMICS; HOSTILITY; KINGDOM of God; ACCESS to information; SECURITY classification (Government documents)
- Publication
Observatorio (OBS*), 2023, Vol 17, Issue 4, p107
- ISSN
1646-5954
- Publication type
Article