This year, the National Heritage Committee decided that Heritage Day is dedicated to honoring the memory of Carlos Vaz Ferreira, fiftieth anniversary of his death. What is surprising
Vaz Ferreira, is that many of their ideas and opinions are still as valid as when they were issued, despite the passing years.
One is the claim he makes about the media, which is transcribed below:
" The press is a good, great good, is all that is said, and even recites everything about it ; is ministry, priesthood, the fourth estate and everything else is all that truly "
" The assets that make this not be separated from certain diseases. All the more reason to study them, to guard against that sort of inherent immorality in order to know if it can be avoided and if not, attenuate as far as possible. "
The opinion of someone who" writes in a journal ( ...) can, the next day, manifesting through an article, impress the entire country, can carry the conviction to believe in a fact, perhaps false, millions of people, can destroy a reputation forever and can make the honor, the happiness of one or many things wrong irreparable. The press is organized in such a way that the statement (and if not, the hint) will always have, almost fatally, before the test or, in any case can never expect logically rigorous proof, or even acceptable. You compare the journalist's obligation (...) with good morals that would require. While there is no absolute proof of a fact (...) it is our duty not to admit it, much more, not spreading it. (...) We teach our children (...) to be kept well to spread shameful unproven and not even proven when not needed. And meanwhile, journalist is required, once a man is accused of a crime, is or is deemed obligated "to make this known immediately to a few thousand people"
"There is a mechanical device called a precisely press, hydraulic press , by which (...) a child can make huge work, moles can raise, you may crush: well, in another press happens quite the same, either, too, can not lift them reputations or more pieces with ease and even with the same unconsciousness of the child. "
" We in the press (...) an intrinsic immorality, inevitable, that can be decomposed into two, with regard to the facts, the obligation to state without enough information, and as regards the doctrine, the obligation to comment on all matters "
