Mediatization, polarization, and intolerance (between environments, media, and circulation)

Ada C. Machado da Silveira 168 zation (1994-2019) based on the performance and impact of the reference media. From this point of view, I understand that the approach to mediatization is valid for the study of the me- dia itself, as a professional activity, and that, in this sense, en- compasses aspects of what I call the impact of mediatization on newsworthiness. The historical change that the media coverage of news in Brazil brings is profound and wide-ranging. Never before there has there been such an immediate and rapid spread of events in a polarized perspective 9 . The period immediately before this phenomenon re- quires considering the emergence of a new social group that has turned the issue of visibility for a significant portion of the Bra - zilian population. At a specific moment, defined by the governmental agenda implemented by the Workers’ Party, the changes of so- ciety in economic growth started to animate the news report of new social relations. Analyzes carried out in the period between 1994 to 2019, therefore, 25 years old, demonstrate that the periphery, on the one hand, is progressively gaining prominence as deserv- ing of news content and non-stigmatizing treatments, and, on the other hand, in the situation in which it emerges, there is evi- dence of the political-police-military bias in dealing with news about social events established with the impeachment of Presi- dent Dilma Rousseff. In terms of newsworthiness, the relationship between news practices and the periphery has aspects that profoundly demarcate an authoritarian and elitist perception of social life by the media. I analyze aspects of the coverage of public secu- rity policy, taken as an example of the class perspective that ob- serves the reference media, guiding oligopoly practices. It is feasible to consider the 1994-2019 period as a clear articulation of police and military forces to contain activi- 9 Searching for antecedents on the theme, the work of Renée A. Dreifuss (2015) records an empirical study that documented in details the mobilizations that gave rise to military intervention in 1964, for the conquest of the Brazilian State and that remained in power for 20 years, in which activities currently known as media have had a spectacular role.