ABSTRACT
Relations between the media and the military dictatorship in Brazil have always been conflicted and controversial. Memory, in this sense, seems to be an important tool for rebuilding, re-signifying, and/or silencing certain narratives about those times. Between remembering and forgetting there are ‘truths’ about a past that, under particular views from the present, end up legitimating certain facts and the individuals who build them. The purpose of this chapter is to reflect on these turbulent relations in the context of the National Truth Commission’s activities (2012–2014) in Brazil. The intention is to analyze how one of the biggest media groups in the country, the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, tried to legitimate its role as an authority in the face of history by issuing calculated revelations regarding certain facts.
