Can Mediatized Transparency Surges Topple Democracy? In the last decade, international and national media have painted starkly contrasting pictures of Brazil: From an emerging world power in 2010 to a ”failing democracy”, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index of 2015. This assessment reflects a snowball of corruption scandals, heavily publicized in the last 18 months, that saturates the entire political system of the Brazilian nation. The media's role in pushing the political establishment towards trial, prison, and unstability, cannot be underestimated, but how can this role be assessed?