The accusation of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was the result of a coup of the economically dominant conservative oligarchy against the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), in power since 2003. The right wing Brazilian media played a pivotal role in this coup by manipulating public opinion. In particular, the media of the powerful Globo Corporation, like O Globo newspaper, and especially Globo’s Jornal Nacional, the pervasive TV news program, consistently demonized and delegitimized Dilma, as well as ex-President Lula and the PT, in their news reports and editorials by selectively associating them with pervasive corruption and attributing the serious economic recession to them.