O Estado e a Imprensa no Brasil: Uma análise da obra de Nelson Werneck Sodré

Abstract

State and mass media present, in Brazil, a relation of permanent proximity, that, at specific moments of our history, provides a confusion of interests. Based on a marxist perspective, the historian Nelson Werneck Sodré analyzed the symbiosis between government and the press in the country in the book called History of the Press in Brazil. The purpose of this article is the rescue of the author’s ideas, establishing an analytical relation of this interpreter of the Brazilian reality. The author’s questionings and debates are of great relevance in the present, still finding echo in Brazil, passed more than six years of his death.