Political values of the journalists of the National Congress

Abstract

The media has become so important to politics and parliament that the Brazilian Legislative Branch has created its own communication system and has recruited over 300 professionals in recent years, who serve as public servants, but with the task of do political journalism from the perspective of the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate. So what is the political value of these journalists? Do these values interfere with your activity? It is based on these issues that the article aims to analyze these values from the perception of the journalists themselves. For that, a survey was carried out with 52% of professionals from the Chamber and the Senate in 2017, in order to draw a profile of these journalists based on their political and professional values. The main conclusions indicate convergences in the political values of the two professional segments, but asymmetries in the evaluation of professional values. The political context and the media management model are the main factors that explain this asymmetry.

Keywords
Journalism and politics; Parliament; Political values; Professional values; National Congress