Mediando a "revolução": as narrativas de O Globo sobre os aniversários do golpe no regime militar

Abstract

This research analyzes the coverage held by O Globo newspaper on the coup of 31 March 1964 anniversaries, from 1965 to 1984, during the military rule. This occasion is special because it is a political ritual that represents the pursuit for legitimacy, a regular opportunity to express the unity of the military as an institution, which was already fissured considering the military as government. At the same time, in a context of unstable political environment, the newspaper needs to look for positioning strategies that go beyond the current idea that judges simply between support or not supporting the government, strategies that make the newspaper a much more complex space than it is usually considered to be. The aim of this study is to understand, from the newspaper articles, the role that journalist attributes to himself regarding politics and society by reporting the anniversaries of military rule