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I would like to comment that on the last 10 years there has been a huge surge on this kind of media here on Brazil as well, and while they aren't as socially virulent as their American equivalents, their raging boners for libertarianism and the free market is incredibly shameful. Ever since Lula was elected, there's been an enormous escalation of firepower against him and his successor Dilma Roussef. The biggest one is the Veja magazine, who actually tried to publish a story claiming that Lula's campaign received three million dollars from communist Cuba, claimed that Lula's government was "infiltrated by Colombian Farc guerrilla" (with no factual evidence at all), had an editor-in-chief getting dossiers against government-based politicians from an "Honorable" congressman who was later known to serve the interests to a gambling crime lord (and then denounced the both after the poo poo hit the surface even though a year before the congressman was lauded as "The only honest man in Brasilia") and the list goes on and on. Another contender is the Globo media conglomerate. They are the biggest open air TV channel, and own many of the cable channels as well as some big name newspapers. They are pretty much the Brazilian version of News Corp, and their power is such that they banned this British documentary for years from airing in public. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWSkYCe2mgw They avoided covering the manifestations for democracy during the final days of the military dictatorship, and during our first elections after forty years, they straight up edited the last debate aired between Lula and his opponent Fernando Collor to make sure Collor had the upper hand. While the former was presented by the media as an angry union baby-eating commie that would drive business out of the country while the latter was presented as an upright moral young capitalist who would bring the country forward (pretty much Paul Ryan). Collor latter was impeached due to the massive corruption on his government and terrible economic plans that made the middle and lower class want to eat his liver such as freezing bank savings and such. He was ousted by the same Media that elected him as well, who saw it as the time to 'jump ship'. There's also the fact that most columnists and media conglomerate owners straight-up fund a conservative think-tank called "Instituto Millenium", which is attached to the Mises institute libertarians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Citizen_Kane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veja_Magazine Plutonis fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Oct 18, 2012 |
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