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Political crisis and presidential breakdowns are not merely political events. Such events are also
elements of the narratives found in news media. This article argues that media construct or project
endings for presidents in crisis, based on the cultural scripts available to newsworkers. Using the
media scandals and political crises of the three latest Brazilian presidents Bolsonaro, Temer, and
Rousseff, the article shows how media at a structural level search for solutions when covering politics
in narrative forms. Some types of presidential crisis, e.g. those related to corruption scandals, have
well-known scripts for resolving the crisis in the form of court cases, elections, or impeachment
proceedings. The kinds of crises predicated on presidential incompetency, however, currently lack
satisfying narrative endings.
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