PRESS AND IMAGES: THE CONSTRUCTION OF REPRESENTATIONS OF PIAUÍ AND TERESINA THROUGH DAILY NEWSPAPERS IN THE DECADE OF 1970.

• Main Author: Francisco Alcides do Nascimento *
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco 2010-06-01
• Series: Clio: Revista de Pesquisa Histórica
• Subjects: : History; city and press
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/revistaclio/article/view/24240/19662

The 1970s mark the history of Piaui in several forms, but this paper tells and highlights the role of press in general, and printing press in particular on the construction of the image of a progressive Piaui and also Teresina as a new tourist center of Brazil. Alberto Tavares Silva, Piaui Governor (1971-1975) was the one who knew how to attract newspapers and journalists to the sphere of power attempting to build a different image of Piaui, which was an image of poverty jointly with an image of a forgotten place, and above all, ruled by conservative and corrupted oligarchies. The Governor and his allies aimed at removing the Piaui and its capital, Teresina, from the national collection of jokes. To construct this historic narrative the main printing journals that circulate in the capital of Piaui were used, as well as interviews that the researchers used in the Oral History methodology.