Drawing on the complementary Bourdieusian concepts of â€˜ï¬ eld’ and ‘habitus’ – a ï¬ eld is socially structured as such only if its members follow a particular habitus, and the existence of a habitus in a particular ï¬ eld depends on informal rules being observed by its members – this article analyzes the relationship between the journalistic and political ï¬ elds in Brazil. The main question shaping our course is: how autonomous is the journalistic ï¬ eld? We have analyzed media-owning politicians in Brazil. This affi liation to discrete ï¬ elds is the subject of the ï¬ rst section. Any measurement of the autonomy of a given ï¬ eld must consider whether the habitus of the ï¬ eld is suffi ciently clear to its members. The journalistic habitus is the subject of the second section
