We often hear how important it is to stay informed, especially when anything can become an ENEM essay topic 😬. Jokes aside, we must remember that it is important to stay up to date and follow the news.
With this we arrive at a second point that is just as important: journalism. Have you ever stopped to think about what it means to have multiple sources of information, watch multiple newspapers and follow the news in real time? All of this shows the role that journalism has in strengthening democracy, conveying news and keeping the population capable of analyzing and forming their own opinions.
Therefore, we must always keep in our minds the importance of having journalism act with freedom of expression, bringing issues of public interest to the surface, controlling any form of corruption and combating any type of repression of this information.
After all, we know many stories of dictatorial regimes, here in Brazil we lived through one for 21 years. A period in which everything that was reported previously went through censorship and not only news, music and films also had to go through this evaluation. Just imagine, living without freedom of the press and expression, we probably wouldn't have cases like the following in the history of journalism.
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Watergate case
It's one of those stories that seems more taken from a movie than from reality, in which journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein published one of the best-known articles in the history of the Washington Post.
The duo discovered that a robbery at the offices of the Democratic Party was carried out by Richard Nixon who, in 1972, was running for re-election for president. The discovery was only published after Nixon's reelection, which led the politician to resign as president.
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“I don’t know why women like uniforms so much”
Title of the report by Fabiana Moraes that denounced abusive practices carried out by the Military Policy of Pernambuco. The journalist showed that abuses, including sexual ones, were committed against black and peripheral women in the state.
The text gained its title because of a statement by Wilson Damázio, then Secretary of Social Defense. Damázio said in an interview that women have sexual fetishes for men in uniform, the case had repercussions and ended in the request for the secretary's dismissal.
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Pit 312
Daniela Arbex brought in her book-report the investigation into the story of the death of Milton Soares de Castro, a militant of the Caparaó Guerrilla. Until then, suicide was the official version of Milton's death, but it was deconstructed by the journalist who proved that the guerrilla was murdered during torture sessions carried out during the Brazilian military dictatorship.
During the investigation, Daniela had access to photos of the body, forensic examinations of the cell where the crime took place and had the suicide report discarded by one of the experts who carried out the autopsy at the time of the crime. After the discovery of the journalist, the authorities apologized and acknowledged the practice of torture against Milton Soares Castro.
