Heródoto Barbeiro: "Não sou professor, não sou advogado, sou jornalista!"

Abstract

In this interview, the journalist Heródoto Barbeiro, one of the most remembered names when teachers refer to the issue of the credibility possible in mass media, talks on his career and the necessary relations between communication and education. He discusses the journalistic practice, which valorizes the news production and neglects the process of reflection on facts. Also analyzes the use of the mass media messages, particularly the ones brought by newspapers, as a didactic tool to support the curricular content developed in classroom. In this sense, media can be understood as an education partner since the process can be shared and extended by more complexes and articulated readings, surpassing the structural reduction of names, facts and dates on a determined event to build a sociological interpretation on reality.