Abstract
The article compares the treatment of Brazilian Foreign Policy (PEB) in Veja and CartaCapital during two presidential terms of Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010). Five thematic groups related to PEB were analyzed qualitative and quantitatively in order to contribute to the study of media and foreign policy in Brazil. Thus, in line with the Foreign Policy Analysis (APE) approaches and considering the mutual influence between media, public opinion and political processes, the role of the media as a political actor was emphasized. The difference in the treatment of the topic in the two weekly newspapers was demonstrated, while testing the hypothesis that the explicit divergence of editorial lines would result in contrasts in the coverage of the subject.
Keywords
Brazilian Foreign Policy; Media; Veja; CartaCapital; Lula da Silva Government