O jornal de Floriano e o jogo político florianense entre os anos de 1975 e 1976.

Abstract

The Floriano Journal was founded in the city of Floriano, in the southern state of Piauí, in 1975. Owned by the Kalume Printing and Publishing Company, the publication operated until the year 1986. The proposed work aims to understand how this newspaper addressed socio-political and economic issues of the period in which it circulated, with an emphasis on its use as a local political platform. Specifically, I propose to examine the first two years of the newspaper's operation. The chosen time frame highlights the changes that occurred in the periodical, considering the local electoral disputes involving the MDB and ARENA. In these disputes, particularly between 1975 and 1976, one of the owners of the Floriano Journal, Antônio de Pádua Francis Kalume, ran for the position of mayor under the MDB. Therefore, we seek to understand how this publication operated in this political context and whether it showed bias towards this politician in its articles. In terms of its layout, it was organized with fixed and variable columns, sections for advertisements, notices, and editorials. Among the methodological procedures to be used, we highlight the critical analysis of the newspaper, considering its materiality and the political discourses in its columns dedicated to local and national political issues, in dialogue with Jacques Le Goff, Michel de Certeau, René Remond, Tania Regina de Luca, Manoel Ricardo Arraes Filho, Roberto John Gonçalves da Silva, Marialva Barbosa, among others.