The dependence of Brazilian press on the international news
agencies suggests that, despite the evolution of technology
which now facilitates the access to information, there has been
no advance in the basic issues that motivated the debate on the
equilibrium necessary in the worldwide circulation of information.
The analysis of the journalistic content of the international news
published in a specific week of 2006 in the newspapers Jornal do
Brasil, in Rio de Janeiro, and O Estado de S. Paulo, in Sao Paulo,
despite the technological transformation in the last decades,
shows that Brazil remains a peripheral nation, and the Brazilian
foreign correspondents today play much more the role of war
correspondents, with their professional movements generally
guided by the degree of importance of and by proximity (not
geographic, but that of varied interests) to the conflicts that break
out in different points of the planet.
