THE CARIOCA PRESS TRANSITION (1975 to 1982):THE FIGHT FOR INFORMATION CONTROL IN JOURNALISM
censorship; military dictatorship; gatekeeper
State censorship and the way journalists and news enterprises related to it is the main focus of historiographical and memorialist narratives on the press during the Brazilian military dictatorship. These narratives are dominated by an image of journalists struggle against censorship oppression, reducing the interpretation of newspapers and journalists positions to a resistance/collaboration dichotomy.
This research goal is to contribute to reveal the processes of creation of this dichotomy in the construction of historiography on press and censorship. For this purpose, I will try to understand the power relations that constitute and are constituted by the process of news production in Rio de Janeiro editorial offices, from 1975 to 1982, when, following the government policy of distension, censorship recedes without withdrawing, starting a press transition process.
The thesis I intend to demonstrate is that the struggle for information control in the newsrooms is part of the journalistic production process dynamics that assumes different characteristics throughout history. Thus, state censorship is not the control factor, but just a factor among others, in of the struggle for power over truth