Folha and the Dictatorship's Remains
Folha has a difficult task of dealing with the dictatorship's rubble
Jul.10.2020 1:37PM
"It was easy to enter the dictatorship, but it was difficult to get rid of it," wrote columnist Elio Gaspari in a Folha article published last week.
A look at Folha's history with the dictatorship that there are more obstacles in this journey.
The third version of Folha's Editorial Handbook - a 1992 text of rules for journalism- features a curious recommendation: do not use the term military dictatorship "to designate the military movement" that occurred in Brazil between 1964 and 1985.
In the manual, the change came only in the following 2001 version. Folha's journalists entered the 21st century, informed that "in news articles, one can use the term military dictatorship to designate the regime that prevailed in Brazil from 1964 to 1985."
It was only in the 2018 version that it was assumed that "the term military dictatorship designates the regime that prevailed in Brazil from 1964 to 1985."
More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/ombudsman/2020/07/folha-and-the-dictatorships-remains.shtml
