Here in Brazil, I read this regular book, more than eight years ago.
The author of this book, Mrs. Beatriz Kushnir wrote this book mainly about the censorship in Brazil; mainly between 1964 and 1985. There's some more things about Brazilian censorship between 1985 and 1988.
This book is 100% writen in Portuguese and has writen good things such as this:“Assim como nem todas as redações eram de esquerda, nem todos os jornalistas fizeram do ofício um ato de resistência ao arbítrio”
Even so, Mrs. Beatriz Kushnir has a clear pro-left bias.
The fact that Brazilian censorship came in fact far before Brazilian Regime Militar(1964-1985) is in this book.
At the same time, the fact that Brazil was in fact blessed by Brazilian Regime Militar hasn't a real place in this book.
In fact Brazilian censorship, during Regime Militar was a blessing.
At first, Brazilian censorship filtered pornography and brutality mainly from Brazilian TV.
During the last ten years of Regime Militar, the level of Brazilian "novelas" or soap operas became bigger than ever before or since. For instance the Brazilian novela "The Escrava Isaura" had a so great level of quality that it was exported to more than 70 countries in the world. As the wikipedia writes: "Escrava Isaura became one of the most popular telenovelas in the world, being broadcast in over 80 countries.[2] It was a major hit in South America, the Eastern Bloc, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Africa and the People's Republic of China.[1] It was among the earliest foreign television series allowed to air in China, and the first with a foreign actress playing the main character.[1] It was the first soap opera aired in the Soviet Union[1] in 1988-1989 (reduced to 15 hour-long episodes), and in Poland[1] in 1985. Escrava Isaura is one of the only foreign language telenovelas aired in the United Kingdom, being broadcast on Channel 4 in 1987 as Isaura the Slave Girl."
Knowing that the government of Cuba, Fidel Castro was giving many millions of US$ dollars to Brazilian marxists do a communist revolution in Brazil, since 1959, the author can't tell that censorship was good for Brazilian society.
For instance, between 1964 and 1985(21 years), Brazilian marxist and terrorists organizations killed far less persons than Argentine Marxists organizations killed only in 1975, a year of complete democracy in Argentina.
In a single sentence, this book has its value and I don't regret that I read it, but even so, Beatriz Kushnir did a biased book, about Brazilian censorship.
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