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50 years of pink newspapper at MIM

By 18 Fevereiro, 20172 Comments

Museu de Imprensa – Madeira (in Camara de Lobos) has presently an exhibit dedicated to the fifty years of Comercio do Funchal, entitled  “o jornal cor de rosa” (the pink newspaper), made out of over a hundred copies of this weekly that was one of the main opposition newspaper during the Portuguese dictatorship (ended in 1974).

In January 1st 1967 Comercio do Funchal appeared with a new “face”, with changed in its graphic layout and even in the colour of the paper used, it came up with new subjects and new ideas, educating public opinion on the importance of the debate of ideas and the free expression, the need to criticize, denounce and inform with greater accuracy. Comercio do Funchal went around the censorship, affirmed freedom of speech and is still remembered as one of the main newspapers in the opposition to the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar and Marcelo Caetano.

MIM Museu de Imprensa Madeira is part of the council of Camara de Lobos, is the sole print museum of the Atlantic isles, and gathers some forty printing machines and a considerable historic heritage associated to the area of the press and since its opening, in September 2013, has organized over ten temporary exhibits.

 

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