Abstract
ABSTRACTAlthough recent interpretations of Brazil’s current political crisis are not wrong in bringing out the institutional problems related to presidencialismo de coalisão and with the judicialization of politics, they do not take into account an important factor fueling the crisis: the acute decrease in the legitimacy of political institutions, and particularly of the president. After briefly showing that this decrease cannot be credited to poor economic performance, I analyze the big media coverage of President Dilma Rousseff and of her party (Workers’ Party), to reveal its tremendous negative bias, if compared to other political figures and parties. I conclude by pointing out that the oligopolistic hold that the large politically active conservative media conglomerates have on the flux of political information must be take into account in political analysis and that it is a major problem for the stability of democracy in Brazil.
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