Ressignificações do caso Herzog no contemporâneo

Abstract

This research analyses images, reports and documents of Vladimir Herzog’s case – an important journalist who was killed at DOI-CODI’s premises in São Paulo, Brazil, during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil in 1975. Through searching for historical documents and image analysis, it was questioned how photographs and reports were conducted in the past, and how today’s media reports them, revisiting the case today; in a process of construction-deconstruction-reconstruction as a simulacrum (Baudrillard, 1981). Therefore, how newsworthiness has changed regarding simulacrum reinterpretations, repetition, reframing and reconstruction, after the Inter-American Court’s decision - in March 2018, which held the State responsible for crimes against humanity, and for lack of investigation, judgment, and punishment at the time, for those accused of the journalist’s torture and murder. The study reveals the differences between reporting news in the past and in the present. At the time of the crime, the media struggled with verifying what the cause of the death was – suicide or murder. Nowadays, the news has been reporting the case’s resignification: the disqualification of the Amnesty Law and the recognition of the imprescriptibility, by the international court.