Among the zenith of openness and apathy fraud. Press and politics at the beginning of the forties (1940-1943)

This article aims to present an itinerary of national and provincial newspapers editorials, in order to analyze the climate of opinion in which they were involved during the national political process in the early forties. Through the analysis of three precise critical times (February-August 1940, March-June 1942, June 1943), this paper attempts to describe how the press viewed the political- electoral events in the period, and in this sense, it presents a more complex analysis of the political scenario in the early forties. We assume that the press contributed to create a climate of opinion and it became a forum of discussion of the main problems in this constitutional period. Thus, the game of scale proposed in this article attempts to show that, despite ideological differences and geographical prisms, main political events were interpreted with consonance of diagnosis.