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A Forced Agreement: Press Acquiescence to Censorship in Brazil

A Forced Agreement: Press Acquiescence to Censorship in Brazil

Smith, Anne-Marie

Paperback

Series: Pitt Latin American, Book 349

General Political ScienceSocial MovementsSouth American History

ISBN10: 0822956217
ISBN13: 9780822956211
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Jul 15 1997
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
During much of the military regime in Brazil (1964-1985), an elaborate but illegal system of restrictions prevented the press from covering important news or criticizing the government. In this intriguing new book, Anne-Marie Smith investigates why the press acquiesced to this system, and why this state-administered system of restrictions was known as \u201cself-censorship.\u201d

Smith argues that it was routine, rather than fear, that kept the lid on Brazil's press. The banality of state censorship-a mundane, encompassing set of automatically repeated procedures that functioned much like any other state bureaucracy-seemed impossible to circumvent. While the press did not consider the censorship legitimate, they were never able to develop the resources to overcome censorship's burdensome routines.

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