FOR WHOM AND WHAT DO WE INFORM? THE NEW STATE, NATAL AND DAILY INFORMATION IN THE NEWSPAPER "A REPÚBLICA" (1941-1942)

Abstract

It aims to identify the daily information in the city of Natal through the analysis of the information circulated in the newspaper The Republic between 1941 and 1942. For this, the information collected from the newspaper was categorized, thus constructing a conceptual map through the selected typology. The hypothesis is that there is an increase in new types of information in the newspaper, even assuming that it underwent a process of silencing due to government censorship. As a methodology, we used bibliographical research and documentary research, made in the newspaper The Republic, which is in the Public archive of the State of Rio Grande do Norte. Then, a corpus of these newspapers was created, as a way of creating a sampling of periodical documents. In this way the methodology of the artificial week was used, which as a method, allows the creation of dates for periodic corpus analysis. Finally, with the content analysis, the results obtained were traced through conceptual maps, showing the modifications in the way of informing to the detriment of the New State structure. With the representation of information through the conceptual maps, it is clear the interconnection of the general information to the more specific, created and divided by the newspaper. It can be considered that the way of informing, has all its molds given by the government, its changes and changes are reflections of the silencing and censorship to which the newspaper is submitted. In addition to having a delimitation of its public and of who is considered part of a natal society of the time, the daily information, thought from one of the main sources of information of the city, has its structure molded and imposed by the Estado Novo, that uses of the silencing in all means of communication.