Ditadura, política e censura : Gazeta de Sergipe e Rádio Liberdade (1964-1969)

Abstract

This research investigates the social relations in Sergipe from the political action of the media, analyzing the main programs broadcast by Liberdade Radio, produced by broadcasters Silva Lima and Santos Mendonça, and editorials and reports printed in the pages of Gazeta de Sergipe, in the period 1961-1969. We seek to undesrstand the political positioning of these vehicles with regard to the possession of João Goular (1961) and the 1964 civiil-military coup, because they have different political performances. The study of the political through the media is a recent phenomenon, the date of renewal of the historiography policy called that occurred from the postwar period, when the political was seen not only as the state and its representatives, but as actions involving society, public officials, the media, education and the very familiar environment of the individual. Rene Remond (2003) believes the media and the political world like objects influence each other, keeoping with society relations of strength and power, in which the stronger part is the media, due to the support received from the public and private spheres because through it there is the choice of politicians and the legitimacy of political regimes. Besides the reports, programs and radio advertisements, there were some interviews with former journalists and broadcasters. Therefore, it is a discourse analysis of these media, to discuss their political and ideological trajectory in society. These media were chosesn because they are mass media, and the ability to serve as a tool for understandign the sócio-political disputes that moment. Work, too, as production sites and reprroduction of ideologies, with the possibility of use by the state to the legitimacy of power.