THE MEDIA AS A PARADIGM CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN SOCIAL COMMUNICATIVE PROCESS

Abstract

The present study, from a constitutional vision, is based on combined vision between needs about information-communication for the democratic process, focusing on the role of the media, considering that these are important providers of information in modern society. The performance of these is by private entities, but exercising a public function, as it helps in enforcing fundamental rights and in communication process that is essential to democracy. The article show as a questioning whether the action of monopolies in the information activities of the media is able to vitiate the exercise of citizen communication, since the truth is professional and ethical component inherent in both communicative actions, and in which case, the truth can be "conditioned" by special interests. In order to answer the problem, the construction was structured from the importance of language, hermeneutical base, and the communicative thought of Habermas, and we can with this connect it with the activity of the media, fundamental rights and the vision of democracy, based on communicative action, to refer in the end to the negative character of the influence of the monopolies of private entities in the actions of society, keeping in mind the possibility of addiction about the true, consequently about the communicative process and democratic, by individual interests.