Mudar para permanecer o mesmo: marcas de um discurso de autolegitimação ao longo da história

Abstract

This article aims to characterize evidences of media’s self-legitimation speech and the relations established with the historicity and other temporal dimensions present in journalism. This characterization effort recovers a set of institutional statements made by Brazilian journalistic agents about themselves; particularly those linked to the editorial reforms and so-called modernization processes. The main hypothesis is that there is an oversimplification of the historicity of the journalistic phenomena, since those speeches are based on the affirmation of the same values and principles throughout history.