Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaThe role of journalism in presidential debates in Argentina and Brazil
Presidential debates are crucial in current election campaigns. How they are staged is the outcome of tense negotiations between media and politicians. This study aims to compare presidential debates’ format between Brazil and Argentina, with a special focus on the role journalists are allowed to ta...
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Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Ecuador)
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| description | Presidential debates are crucial in current election campaigns. How they are staged is the outcome of tense negotiations between media and politicians. This study aims to compare presidential debates’ format between Brazil and Argentina, with a special focus on the role journalists are allowed to take.To this end, it has reviewed archive and secondary sources and reconstructed the trajectories of presidential debates in both countries. While Brazil and Argentina are similar with respect to their political and media systems, they presidential debate’s histories differ markedly. This investigation’s result showthat journalists in Brazil, while having been marginalized from the overtly critical role they played on the first debates in the country, still play a role on them in current campaigns. In contrast, argentinian journalists are not allowed to participate on the debates, aside from a quiet moderating stance. This difference, we argue, is likely due to the different timing on which presidential debates in one and the other country have taken place. While in Brazil debates started being organized early on (with the first direct and democratic elections), at a time where the mass media were undoubtedly dominant, in Argentina these have only recently taken place, just when the media systems (there and elsewhere) are increasingly fragmented and the objectivity and neutrality of journalist is being questioned. |
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| spelling | oai:revistas.ups.edu.ec:article-57062022-02-24T16:24:44Z The role of journalism in presidential debates in Argentina and Brazil El rol del periodismo en los debates presidenciales en la Argentina y Brasil Franco-Häntzsch, Carolina Dagatti, Mariano Presidential debates Brazil Argentina journalism electoral campaigns formats credibility debates presidenciales Argentina Brasil campañas electorales credibilidad formatos Presidential debates are crucial in current election campaigns. How they are staged is the outcome of tense negotiations between media and politicians. This study aims to compare presidential debates’ format between Brazil and Argentina, with a special focus on the role journalists are allowed to take.To this end, it has reviewed archive and secondary sources and reconstructed the trajectories of presidential debates in both countries. While Brazil and Argentina are similar with respect to their political and media systems, they presidential debate’s histories differ markedly. This investigation’s result showthat journalists in Brazil, while having been marginalized from the overtly critical role they played on the first debates in the country, still play a role on them in current campaigns. In contrast, argentinian journalists are not allowed to participate on the debates, aside from a quiet moderating stance. This difference, we argue, is likely due to the different timing on which presidential debates in one and the other country have taken place. While in Brazil debates started being organized early on (with the first direct and democratic elections), at a time where the mass media were undoubtedly dominant, in Argentina these have only recently taken place, just when the media systems (there and elsewhere) are increasingly fragmented and the objectivity and neutrality of journalist is being questioned. Los debates presidenciales televisados son un momento central de las campañas contemporáneas. Resultan de tensas negociaciones entre medios de comunicación y políticos. A partir de un minucioso examen dearchivo y fuentes secundarias, este trabajo compara la evolución del género en Brasil y la Argentina desde el retorno de sus respectivas democracias hasta la actualidad: dos países latinoamericanos con sistemas políticos y mediáticos similares, pero con resultados diferentes en este sentido. Se centra en los formatos que predominan en ambos países, con especial atención al papel de los periodistas. Se constata que, si bien periodistas brasileños han debido ceder parcialmente al rol “crítico” que tenían en los primeros debatesdel actual período democrático (retirada que refleja una pérdida de credibilidad), todavía participan en la mayoría de los encuentros entre candidatos. En la Argentina, en cambio, se ha prohibido expresamente queperiodistas y representantes de los medios de comunicación tomen parte activa de los debates presidenciales televisados: se teme que tengan una actitud sesgada o poco objetiva. Las diferencias, argumentamos, tienen que ver con el diferente momento en el que los debates se originaron en cada país: más temprano en Brasil (en un momento de auge de los medios masivos de comunicación); más reciente en la Argentina, al calor de una creciente fragmentación del sistema mediático y de abiertos cuestionamientos al sector. Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Ecuador) 2022-03-22 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf application/pdf application/zip text/html https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/36.2022.04 10.17163/uni.n36.2022.04 Universitas; No. 36 (2022): (March 2022-August 2022): Elections in the U.S. and Latin America: campaigns, electoral behavior, polarization and protests; 95-122 Universitas; Núm. 36 (2022): (marzo 2022-agosto 2022): Elecciones en EE. UU. e Iberoamérica: campañas, comportamiento electoral, polarización y protesta; 95-122 1390-8634 1390-3837 10.17163/uni.n36 spa eng https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/36.2022.04/5090 https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/36.2022.04/5091 https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/36.2022.04/5092 https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/36.2022.04/5093 Derechos de autor 2022 Universidad Politénica Salesiana http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
| spellingShingle | Franco-Häntzsch, Carolina Dagatti, Mariano The role of journalism in presidential debates in Argentina and Brazil |
| title | The role of journalism in presidential debates in Argentina and Brazil |
| title_full | The role of journalism in presidential debates in Argentina and Brazil |
| title_fullStr | The role of journalism in presidential debates in Argentina and Brazil |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of journalism in presidential debates in Argentina and Brazil |
| title_short | The role of journalism in presidential debates in Argentina and Brazil |
| title_sort | role of journalism in presidential debates in argentina and brazil |
| url | https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/36.2022.04 |