Albert Camus ou a experiência do jornalismo crítico

Abstract

Mário Mesquita speaks of a utopian journalism: a critical journalism, free of the interests of politics and money, inserted in the field of culture, able to undermine itself and deeply committed to democracy. A Journalism that Albert Camus took with no illusions, but turned out to consider one of the most beautiful professions in the world. Writer, even before journalist, who did not reject to start the basic tasks of an intern in the newsroom of the Combat, and intellectual: Camus was never a man of conformism in literature, neither in thought nor in journalism, fact that explains its isolation in the French intellectuality. Well beyond the opinion maker of our days, he was the intellectual with the moral courage of free and different opinion. Mario Mesquita’s words concerning the centenary of the birth of Albert Camus in the 20 years of the Degree in Journalism in the University of Coimbra.