Book exposes press attacks that transcend ideology – 26/07/2025 – Power

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Violence against journalists in Brazil is not limited to one side of the political spectrum, transcends ideology and finds echo from right to the left. This is one of the conclusions of João Paulo Bagoni, 29, author of the book “You from the Press”, which explores how hostility against it intensified from 2013.

The 192 -page work is an adaptation and updating of work designed for the Master at UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), recognized as the best dissertation of 2023 in an intercom award (Brazilian Society of Interdisciplinary Studies of Communication).

The book gathers data from a survey of 203 journalists, outlines victims of violence, and highlights how the profession has been stifled for attacks, threats, virtual lynchings and silencing attempts, with impacts on freedom of expression and access to public information.

One of the ideas presented is that hostilities come from both sides. “Violence against the press happens and continues to happen because, on both sides of the polarization that Brazil lives today, there is a predisposition to think that the or the journalist, as a professional and as a class, make movements that are not in accordance with what these political ideologies believe,” says Boloni.

According to him, when they feel contradicted by the investigations and debates promoted by journalism, these organizations turn against the media. Political parties, social movements, militants and anonymous citizens, especially on social networks, feel comfortable attacking journalists and delegitimizing their work.

The work starts from a personal place. Baconi was the target of a series of attacks, being the most remarkable of them after the publication of one about the role of a daughter -in -law in 2019 that bothered the then president, his family and his supporters.

The purpose of the agenda was to analyze the content of the online sessions taught by her from the perspective of political journalism and behavior. As the book reports, conversations involved political themes, sometimes tangent to her husband’s articulation to become ambassador.

The journalist had a photo and name exposed by the Bolsanist militancy, accompanied by false accusations about his health condition and sexual orientation. He received a flood of insults: “tramp”, “pilantra”, “trash”, “viadim”, “psychopath”. Aggressiveness was amplified by bloggers and political figures.

“This violence impacts my daily life to this day, because, as I count on the book, it continues to happen at times. These same people, who made these comments back there, continue to appear,” Boli tells Sheet.

In addition to his own memory, Bolu portrays emblematic episodes from 2013, when a recrudation of violence against journalists began. He recovers the stories of, special reporter from SheetSantiago Andrade, Luiz Fara Monteiro, Renato Alves, Natuza Nery and Raquel Landim.

The study identified that one of the consequences of press attacks is self -censorship. Journalists stop writing on certain topics to avoid aggression. Part of the interviewees reported not feeling safe to use the badge, and another avoids revealing that he is a journalist in everyday situations.

The public, in turn, also ends up harmed as this journalist does not feel safe to make his report, says the author. According to the writer, when there is no freedom to exercise the profession, information may be more limited, less wide and less deepened.

“The consequence comes silently, but at the same time, shrill. Although we are not going to look at the newspaper and miss what could be there, as happened, for example, at the time of (…), we can come across a more gradual movement, where journalists choose to stop talking about certain subjects.”

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