Television and news reports function as fundamental tools in
order to amplify or restrict public interest. Journalistic discourses
are strategic as mediators among the different powers and the
civic society, and contribute to maintaining or transforming social
practices, especially the narratives of the TV news. This work
aims at identifying how television news programs build political
dimensions, identities and Latin-American physical and symbolic
territories, starting from an analysis covering two events that
marked the international agenda in 2009: the World Economic
Forum in Davos, and the World Social Forum in Belém, as treated by the most watched Brazilian television news programs.
