In the last 50 years, a modern communication industry has consolidated itself in Brazil. It provides tens of millions of people with information and entertainment. The media have cumulative, long-term impact on their consumers’ worldviews, but also had important direct participation in events of recent Brazilian political History. However, the accounts of the periodsca rcely touch the media. This article analyses such absence (in the works of authors as Skidmore, Costa Couto, and Fausto) and examines why historians and political scientists still feel uncomfortable with the political influence of the media.
Media; Brazilian Political History; Democracy; media