“This newspaper does not guarantee to cooperate in the realization of the superior purposes of the state.” We were in 1965.
A Asks – International Police and State Defense tried to control the entire media. And it started not to like what Fundão Journal I was publishing.
The newspaper was created already during the Estado Novo. More specifically in 1946, right after World War II – when some Portuguese expected greater opening on the part of António de Oliveira Salazarafter the defeats of dictatorships in war; It didn’t happen.
The newspaper was not “one more” regional newspaper. It was preponderant not only in information, but in its cultural, civic role. One causes journalism.
Had an editorial line criticism of the regime. He fought for democracy, was also involved in cultural causes that contradicted Salazar’s interests.
It was the “voice” of intellectuals, Writers, progressive priests and other personalities who advocated political, social and cultural reforms. It was the stage of movements that wanted a change.
José Saramago, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, José Cardoso Pires, Mario Cesariny, Eugénio de Andrade, Alves Redol, Ruy Belo and Ana Hatherly (among others) wrote for the Fundão Journal.
It was a boldness, but published criticism of censorship and political repression; defended renew the Church Catholic – aligned with the spirit of the Second Vatican Council (between 1962 and 1965); cove democratic movements and associatives in the interior of Portugal; and Denunciava bad living conditions in rural areas and the economic and social delay of Beira Interior.
A Pide was warning. He left warnings, censored articles.
The years went by, the content had no significant change. In 1965 PIDE ordered the newspaper suspension.
“This newspaper does not guarantee to cooperate in the realization of the superior purposes of the statethus affecting, particularly, the suitability of this newspaper. The good of the nation. ”
This was the craft, the official document, which suspended the newspaper. Quoted by its current director, Nuno Francisco.
60 years Then the director explained what this was the “opportune moment” to talk about journalism, especially at the business level. He held a debate on the subject last month.
Jornal do Fundão was suspended for half a year. It returned, And even today it is seen as a symbol of cultural and journalistic resistance to the Estado Novo, especially in the interior of the country.
Nuno Teixeira da Silva, Zap //
