Who does the closure protect from? Removal of journalistic content on video, limitations on political coverage and risks to democracy

The unpublication of almost 150,000 journalistic content by Empresa Brasil de Comunicação, denounced by Fenaj, unions and social movements, such as the Front in Defense of EBC and Public Communication, was the driving force behind the investigation of the limitations in TV Brasil's political coverage during the closed season. The conceptual issues, addressed from a literature review, allowed us to tension the empirical dimension with materials on the theme Elections published in Repórter Brasil in July 2026. Through the AMA - Analysis of audiovisual materiality, it was sought to evaluate to what extent the strategies adopted by the EBC with reference to Law 9.504, of 1997, do not represent risks to audiovisual journalism in the public broadcaster and to democracy itself, by limiting the citizen's access to information of public interest.