A regulamentação da imprensa no Brasil: controle ou democratização da informação?

Abstract

The main objective of this thesis is to verify whether the regulation of Mass Media could serve as instrument of democratization of the access to information in Brazil or as a state control mechanism. During the two dictatorships of Brazil freedom of expression has been suspended. The Press Law created during the military dictatorship was repealed only in 2009 through the ADPF 130. Despite its defects such Act protected the journalist from the pressure of big business. Today we live a legislative vacuum and the existence of large media groups raises questions about the quality of information. The method of approach was the Deductive, trying to analyze the favorable and opposite positions on the subject of media regulation. It was used the historical and monographic method, which surveyed about censorship in the course of the evolution of the press in Brazil and the comparative method to compare the current legislation with previous legislation and the Constitution. For that we used the bibliographical and documentary research. The work was divided into three chapters, and in the first is presented the current reality of Brazilian media and after a historic rescue. Spoke out about the new democratic period until the declaration of non-receipt of Law 5250 by the Supreme Court. In the second, the importance of communication and the rights to information and freedom of expression. And in the third was approached the debate on the regulation of the press and the most debated arguments on the topic and a brief analysis of the Press Law Project which is in course in Congress. In the end, came to the conclusion that the realization of freedom of the press is independent of whether there is or not a regulation, but that the lack of it can also generate censorship. Large media groups may reduce the freedom of information and censorship can be made using any law, because the country's authorities can decide to control or not the press.