Media and Justice in Brazil: Mapping the Historical Guidelines of a New Relationship

Abstract

This article deals with the media coverage process of the Brazilian Judiciary, in a context that maps two key moments: the Judiciary CPI (1999) and the Judiciary Reform (2003 and 2004). From this perspective, we analyze the agenda of the “external control” defended by the media during the Reform of the Judiciary and the subsequent defense of the National Council of Justice as an organ opposed to nepotism as a media strategy of institutional defense. In this way, the media and the Justice System produce a relationship that narrows, between tensions and cohesions, within an ongoing process that affects the Brazilian institutional scope.