Gazeta Pelotense: ensaio para uma imprensa de transição (anos 1970).

Abstract

The research about Gazeta Pelotense newspaper, which circulated in Pelotas (RS) between September 1976 and January 1977, is the basis from which I start to build the category transitional press. This category is characteristic of societies in transition, marked by economic, technological or socio-political changes. From the moment it appeared, the press can be characterized as the cause and result of some of these changes. For this research, it is interesting to analyze the effects on the press of the institutional rupture caused by the civil-military dictatorship implanted in Brazil in March 1964. It is also important to situate the technological changes that reached the press even before the launch period of Gazeta Pelotense and that continued to produce impacts in the second half of the 1970s in Brazil. The characteristics of journalism that Gazeta Pelotense professionals intended to practice are compared to those of journalism practiced at the time. It is usually divided between the mainstream press which supported the coup and implantation of the 1964 civil-military dictatorship and the alternative press that fought it. In this research, I intend to demonstrate that the press cannot be characterized only as a collaborator or critic of the military governments. At the origin of the issues raised to substantiate this finding are the relationships between journalism and the changing society.