Transmissão das sessões plenárias pela TV Justiça: publicidade e fragmentação no Supremo Tribunal Federal

Abstract

The present research aims to analyze the impacts of the broadcasting of the plenary sessions by TV Justice, listing the loss of the basic essence of the principle of publicity as a democratic guarantee. It questions the fact that the broadcasting of the trials has allowed the ministers to be elevated to the category of renown, enhanced by the discourse of the media and the increased circulation of news about the trial agendas and their relationship with public opinion. It is necessary to demonstrate that the collegiate body sustains itself in collaborative work, and the use of entangled and extensive argumentative paths puts its legitimacy in check by exempting itself from an environment of effective deliberation. We adopt as a critical parameter the structured interviews conducted by Professor Virgílio Afonso da Silva with the justices of the STF, to verify isolated problems in the way the Court deliberates, among which an excess of individualism among them was highlighted. The qualitative research, with an exploratory and critical character, makes use of empirical analyses of authors who aggregate several variables to identify the legitimacy of the performance and the limits of constitutional jurisdiction, confronting the expected and effected effects with the institution of the TV Justice channel. We conclude that the media influence turns trials into a space of individual self promotion, in which judges offer insufficient votes regarding intercommunication and debate, with pretentious and vain performances that hinder decision making, especially those that generate controversy and social expectations.