Programas policiais na cobertura da pandemia de Covid-19

Abstract

This article analyzes how police programs covered the Covid-19 pandemic. The hypothesis is that, due to the mediation format, presenters go beyond freedom of expression and may expose society to vulnerable conditions. From the theoretical scope of Political Economy of Communication, from the technique of creating a fictitious week, content analysis was associated with content analysis.  The results indicate that economic dependence is harmful to critical coverage; the programs contributed to the spread of false information; and reproduced the political polarization that opposed the federal government to state governments.