Author(s): Oliveira, Pedro Miguel ; Zamith, Fernando
Date: 2021
Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/135220
Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
Subject(s): Ciências da comunicação; Communication sciences; Ciências da comunicação; Ciências da comunicação; Communication sciences; Communication sciences
The admissions to Higher Education are one of the main events of education journalism. In 2020, there was a protest on social media by Portuguese medical students regarding the way Med School was represented in the journalistic coverage of admissions to Higher Education. From this digital manifestation arises a reflection on the impact that news coverage can have on society, contributing to the degradation of the social perspective of the already exposed medical profession. The article analyzes news coverage of admissions to Higher Education between 2017 and 2020, as an attempt to find a tendency from journalism, as the students argue, to "hunt" Med School's GPA - through an excessive focus and negative framings that represent Medicine as declining and "losing to Engineering". The article argues the importance of framing, opposing it to the journalistic need to make comparisons, so that information is more understandable - reflecting on the journalist's duty to measure and understand the impact of the framing he produces.
