A mídia brasileira e a Política Nacional de Participação Social (PNPS) do governo Dilma: uma análise da posição dos jornais Folha de S. Paulo e O Estado de S. Paulo

Abstract

The study on the Brazilian media and the National Policy of Social Participation (PNPS) in Dilma’s government, it seeks for an understanding of the media's relationship with the Brazilian representative democracy, in which she is totally contrary about PNSPS. Therefore, some specific objectives are placed as needed: 1) To verify the legitimacy of the Presidential Decree No. 8,243 / 2014, which institutionalizes the National Policy of Social Participation; 2) To identify the emergence and implications of democratic innovations to the Brazilian representative democracy; 3) To analyze the positions adopted by two national newspapers: Folha de S. Paulo and O Estado de S. Paulo regarding the presidential measure; and finally, 4) To identify the boundaries of the critical arguments on PNPS. For such an understanding, we make use of qualitative research of the respective online journals collections during the period may to October 2014, effective date of the National Policy of Social Participation. The results are limited to this context. They indicate that the performance of the two journals have collaborated to block the expansion of representative democracy, in other words, to halt the presidential decree. Thus, it sustain the idea that the media did not remain neutral in this process: she defended a restricted position of democracy.