Narratives of the general strike of Argentina and Brazil in 2017: intrigues, conflicts and characters

Miranda, Cynthia Mara; Shuen, Li-Chang

doi:10.1590/1809-5844201838

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Article • Intercom, Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Comun. 41 (3) • Oct-Dec 2018 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-5844201838 copy

Narratives of the general strike of Argentina and Brazil in 2017: intrigues, conflicts and characters

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In this article, we present an analysis of the journalistic narrative about general strike occurred in Argentina on April 6, 2017 and in Brazil on April 28, 2017. Based on a comparative analysis of two major political events, we aim to identify similarities and differences in the journalistic narrative of the general strike in two newspapers with wide national circulation: Clarín and Folha de S. Paulo. The corpus is composed of headlines and covers calls of seven editions of each newspaper, treated quantitatively in the Iramuteq and qualitatively from the methodological reference of narrative analysis. The analysis of the corpus evidenced the construction of distinct journalistic narratives to report political events with similar patterns and pointed to the need of the media to guarantee space for the plurality of voices, as well as guarantee the space of the contradictory in the journalistic narratives.

Keywords
Journalistic narrative; Argentina; Brazil; General strike

Date	Headlines/Cover calls of O Clarín
April 2nd	A citizen demonstration with political impact. The march of support to Macri surprised the government, crowded the square and was felt in the interior
April 3rd	Strengthened by support marches, the government seeks to relaunch its management
April 4th	the government’s firm grip on the unions. Prior to the strike, Macri spoke of mafias and slammed labor unionists
April 5th	Former president increasingly complicated with justice. Cristina is sued for illicit association and has $ 130 million blocked
April 6th	Unions demand changes in economy Macri faces the first strike and there will be events because of the threat of cuts
April 7th	first CGT strike against Macri’s administration. The stoppage was strongly felt, but the government controlled the pickets

Date	Headlines/Cover calls of Folha de S. Paulo
April 23rd	Contribution to Pension grows despite unemployment
April 24th	No highlight in the front page
April 25th	PSB positions against the President’s reforms
April 25th	Brazil needs to have discipline to negotiate reforms
April 26th	Labor reform advances and will voted today
April 27th	Strike acts plan closing SP Airports on Friday
April 27th	House approves bill to flexibilize labor law
April 28th	Country on General Strike and Acts against Reforms
April 28th	Federal Government sees risk of conflicts with black blocs
April 29th	Strike reaches transportation and schools in a day of confrontations
April 29th	Temer congratulates Doria for atitudes against stoppages
April 29th	Main capitals of the country wake up in the mood for a Holiday

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[1] PhD in Social Sciences, University of Brasília (UnB). She works as a teacher in the Journalism course and in the Communication and Society Graduate Program of the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT). She is the president of the Editorial Board of the Federal University of Tocantins (EDUFT) and researcher of the Observatory of Applied Research in Journalism and Teaching (Opaje). She received the Hilton Japiassú Award for Research Excellence - Young Researcher category at the Federal University of Tocantins in 2015. She is the author of the book: “Mobilization of Women in Brazilian newspaper statements (1979-1988)” and author of several articles in the media, politics and gender issues. E-mail: cynthiamara@uft.edu.br.