“A tortura de Estela contada por Dilma”: memórias e discursos no jornal “Estado de Minas”

Abstract

“Estado de Minas” started publishing series of articles which gave rise to this research. “A tortura de Estela contada por Dilma” has been published for nine days by this newspaper and rescued the memory of torture in Minas Gerais. In addition, the series revealed the existence of such practices in the city of Juiz de Fora, a fact never before officially revealed. In this work, the author tried to understand, through Pecheutiana’s Analysis of Discourse, as the press talks about the military dictatorship and how the recollection of this period in Juiz de Fora reconstructs meanings in the reader's memory. It turned out that there is a reaffirmation of journalism's commitment to the revelation of hidden facts of the history of the country through the recovery of memory. In addition, it was found that there is a radicalization in discourse good versus evil, where the active militancy against the dictatorship is portrayed as totally good, while the military appear as exclusively bad figures. As series has as main character the political figure of Dilma Rousseff, was also possible to detect the existence of a positive look of the subject of the discourse on the current president, since he believes that a good militant can be a good ruler. Finally, evidence of the difficulty to rescue the country's memory through testimonies of survivors, since the recall causes the revival of past pains and often those people who could contribute to the rescue of certain periods prefer not to be subject to certain emotions. Thus, it was observed that journalism, manifested by the genre entry, is able to take up the memories of the country readers in a light way and, at the same time, deep. Topics, that was not discussed before, are presented to readers and lead to reflection on the past of the country. In addition, when the journalism reveals facts not published by the official media, he instigates the opening of discussions on specific topics, either by impact in other media, whether on the political scene.