As duas imprensas (The Two Presses)
On a Senate rostrum a grey-haired presiding figure raises a giant axe labelled 'Lei de Imprensa' while a woman with Justice's scales stands by and a bowed man in a chair marked 'Bom Senso' pleads for the press. At left a grinning figure holding a pen-lance lettered 'Imprensa Amarella' and a scowling companion are drawn as grotesques, while the other press is defended as 'innocent'. The tells are the label 'Imprensa Amarella' (yellow press) attached to caricatured faces and the scales of Justice placed beside the press the cartoon defends.
- Date
- December 16, 1922
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- O Malho (Rio de Janeiro illustrated weekly); cartoonist J. Carlos
- Region
- Latin America
- Country
- Brazil
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Bernardes Government
- Leader
- Artur Bernardes
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Media and information
- Event
- Adolfo Gordo Press Law
- Techniques
- Name-callingTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira, Fundação Biblioteca Nacional), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1922, before 1931; PD per Wikimedia Commons)
J. Carlos, O Malho (Rio de Janeiro) no. 1057, 16 December 1922, via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
AS DUAS IMPRENSAS A proposito da grande discussão no Senado sobre a lei Adolpho Gordo: [on the axe:] LEI DE IMPRENSA [on the chair:] BOM SENSO [on the pen-lance at left:] IMPRENSA AMARELLA O BOM SENSO — Ellas são duas, senhor. Essa que vos olha altiva e imperturbavel não teme tribunaes; é innocente! [signature, lower right:] [illegible]
THE TWO PRESSES On the subject of the great discussion in the Senate on the Adolpho Gordo law: [on the axe:] PRESS LAW [on the chair:] GOOD SENSE [on the pen-lance at left:] YELLOW PRESS GOOD SENSE — There are two of them, sir. This one, who looks at you proudly and unperturbed, does not fear the courts; she is innocent!
