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sábado, 31 de outubro de 2009

PORTUGAL: RECORDISTA NA DESIGUALDADE

Na lista dos países com maior fosso entre ricos e pobres Portugal vem em 5º lugar. A classificação é feita pelo Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). Do ponto de vista da desigualdade só Hong Kong (1º), Singapura (2º), EUA (3º) e Israel (4º) estão em situação pior do que Portugal. O coeficiente de Gini que o PNUD atribuiu a Portugal foi de 38,5 (numa escala em que zero representa a igualdade absoluta e 100 a desigualdade absoluta). O PNUD afirma que os 10% mais pobres da população portuguêsa detêm apenas 2% do rendimento nacional, ao passo que os 10% mais ricos detêm 29,8% do mesmo.
A notícia está em Yahoo Finance .
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How the Media Frames Political Issues

In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]

McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15]

http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html