What does the past teach about the interpretation which media makes about worldwide crises, its impacts in Brazil and in worker classes' everyday lives? I intend to answer this question analyzing newspapers such as "Jornal do Commercio" and "Correio da Manhã", as well as an important communist journal named "A Classe Operária", along October and November of 1929. From the newspapers' content, we can recognize two interpretations of the crisis: one for Rio de Janeiro's elite, which apparently did not suffer, at least immediately, its impacts, although it informed the repercussions on agrarian exporting sector (mainly on Sao Paulo's coffee) and another from workers, who suffered not only with 1929 crisis, but with all the different internal and external crises which happened before 1930 revolution.
History of Brazilian Republic; 1929 crisis; press; political culture
