Ao vivo, de Brasília: escândalo político, oportunismo midiático e circulação de notícias

Abstract

This work analyzes the interaction between media and politics in the communication of material about the so-called “scandal of the month” (escândalo do mensalão) which happened in Brazil in 2005. That event shows itself as emblematic of the social behaviour already present in other contexts in which the vehicles of communication take the iniciative to denounce, and have their appropriate reports such as documentation by diverse political authors. It is, one adds, that the transmission of news on the hour gave new possibilities to visibility and to the oportunistic media of the people involved in the denunciations. The type of scandal, linked to the criteria of divulgation used by the Brazilian press and to the emergence of new opportunities of media communication, fed mutual dependence between the political sphere and the means of journalism, permitting a plurality of versions, absent in previous episodes and increasing the public interest.