”Political Flagrant”: political partisan representation of the goverment sucession in Piauí in the newspaper Folha da Manhã in 1958

Abstract

The present work analyzes the political partisan representation of the government succession in Piauí in 1958 in the section “Political Flagrant” in the newspaper Folha da Manhã. Once the owner was the deputy Marcos Parente (UDN), the daily newspaper kept an editorial line very refined to the political interests of the udenistas and, for this reason, the paper was signed as opposition to the governor of Piauí, Gen. Jacob Manoel Gayoso and Almendra, from PSD. Based on the theory of journalism and in the methodology of Discourse Analysis, the articles published in the section “Political Flagrant” were analyzed from January to April 1958 that discuss about the situation of PSD of Piauí and the backstage of the situationism, when the parties and the political groups were prepared for the election campaign on October 3rd. Thus, it is verified that Folha da Manhã subscribed to itself and to the reader a journalism of credibility based on rhetoric of truth of facts and, dialectically, it was concerned as a political weapon to face the discursive battle strongly proponent that was struggled with the other newspapers from Teresina in the period cut out to study.