Jornais e jornalistas mineiros : a censura à imprensa partir da vigência do ai-5

• Autor(a) principal: Flávio de Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/54060
• topic: Censura; Imprensa; Jornalistas; Ditadura; Censura; Imprensa - Minas Gerais; Jornalistas; Brasil - História - 1964-1985

This work aims at studying the political censorship of newspapers established in Belo Horizonte after implementation of the Institutional Act 5, or AI-5, and its effects on the journalist´ practice. Political censorship in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro due to the AI- 5 has been investigated since the late 1970s and now has a set of dense work about the complex relations between the State and the Press during the military dictatorship. However, there are few specifics studies about press censorship in Belo Horizonte, although the local elite has been one of the a most active supporters of the military coup of 1964, also providing policy frameworks that helped in sustaining the dictatorship. This study addresses the institutionalization of censorship in Belo Horizonte soon after the AI- 5, from instructions distributed by Divisional Infantry of the 4th Military Region ( ID/4); experiences of censorship and experienced censorship in newsrooms of Estado de Minas-Diário da Tarde, the birth of a kind of "puppy" of censorship, the alternative De Fato, in the second half of the 1970s , the pressure on the branches professionals working in the capital, and the relationship between journalists and censors, characterized by a mix of accommodation, friendliness and strangeness . The main source of this study were 13 professionals who worked in the local media in the period, whether in local newspapers or branches of national circulation. Besides the interviews, the research drew on Public File Miner documents that contain instructions for the first application of AI-5 and censorship in the local press. Another source was the newspapers of that time consulted in the Historical Newspaper Library, State Library Luiz de Bessa, in particular collections of Estado de Minas, Diário da Tarde, O Jornal e Jornal de Minas in the period between March 1964 and late 1975, as well as 26 editions of De Fato, which circulated between January 1976 and November 1978.