O Papel da Imprensa Alagoana na crise de 1945 da Era Vargas

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the role of the Alagoana press, specifically the Alagoas Journal and Gazeta de Alagoas that circulated in the year 1945, in the political debates during the crisis of the Estado Novo. From its publications, I intend to analyze the positions of social, economic and political groups, the ideological tendencies the convergences and divergences with Getulio Vargas' government, and in this context to show how the movement, the main popular movement in that period was contextualized newspapers. In addition, we sought to influence the influence of large media conglomerates with the local press in the reproduction of national news, and to present how the censorship of the Press and Advertising Department (DIP) operated in the periodicals' publications, and we tried to highlight the role of these newspapers in the diffusion of the Vargas government projects with the workers. Finally, we analyze how the interveners and the oligarchies influenced the editorial offices of the newspapers, disseminating news that benefited their political groups, both locally and nationally.