“Smile, you’re being manipulated”: commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Globo television network.
Banco Opportunity, founded by MIT-trained convicted briber of federal officers Daniel Dantas, owns a cattle ranch in Pará which the Brazilian federal police suspect may have been used to launder money.
Apparently the capital gains represented by new calves are very hard to document or audit and are therefore useful for money laundering purposes. Stay tuned on that accusation.
The ranch is currently occupied by the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, an aggressively civil disobedience-oriented agrarian reform and anti-latifúndio movement known for invading and occupying properties the validity of whose title it questions.
The Globo national network reports: A “gun battle” erupts between members of the MST and “security guards” for the ranch.
In the footage shown by the network — I am waiting for someone to post that to YouTube — members of the MST are not shown firing.
Fact not in evidence. Describing a one-sided massacre as a two-sided “clash” is a classic topos of the viciously slanted Brazilian press, even in this day and age. See also
The Pando massacre in Bolivia was also described by local press as a two-sided armed “clash,” for example. The OAS begged to differ.
As part of the report, typically, a Globo cameraman is interviewed about his own heroism in continuing to film “in the middle of the crossfire.”
Os repórteres Victor Haor e Felipe Almeida, da TV Liberal, afiliada da TV Globo no Pará, estavam na propriedade. Felipe ficou no meio do fogo-cruzado. “É o objetivo de qualquer repórter cinematográfico que tem no sangue essa coisa de imagem. Você tem que registrar”
Reporters Victor Haor and Felipe Almeida of TV Globo Pará affiliate TV Liberal were on the property. Felipe was in the middle of the crossfire.”It is the objective of any news cameraman who has this thing of getting the shot in his blood. You have to get the shot.”
This is quacking bullshit.
The shooting was all filmed from behind the security guards who were firing. No MST protesters were captured on camera firing. One security guard was reported wounded, and shown briefly, clutching at his neck and grimacing, but the cause of his injuries were not reported.
Self-congratulatory “coverage of the coverage” at the expense of factual accuracy being a hallmark of the Globo Standard of Quality in journalism. This is the basic premise, for example, of Globo’s “Globo Repórter” program.
Globo is endemically fully of shit.
The MST, not interviewed by TV Globo about the incident — balanced coverage and hearing all sides not being part of the Globo Standard of Quality– released its own version of events.
We will translate into the record for the sake of balance, then try to figure out what happened here. You sure as hell are not going to find out watching a Globo newscast. Globo affiliates were handed out to reactionary machine politicians of the old school during the Sarney administration, and it shows.
Em relação ao episódio na região de Xinguara e Eldorado de Carajás, no sul do Pará, o MST esclarece que os trabalhadores rurais acampados foram vítimas da violência da segurança da Agropecuária Santa Bárbara. Os sem-terra não pretendiam fazer a ocupação da sede da fazenda nem fizeram reféns. Nenhum jornalista nem a advogada do grupo foram feitos reféns pelos acampados, que apenas fecharam a PA-150 em protestos pela liberação de três trabalhadores rurais detidos pelos seguranças. Os jornalistas permaneceram dentro da sede fazenda por vontade própria, como sustenta a Polícia Militar. Esclarecemos também que:
With respect to the episode in the region of Xinguara and Eldorado de Carajás, in southern Pará, the MST would like to clarify that the rural workers camped out there were victims of violence at the hands of security guards at the Santa Barbara ranch. The landless workers were not trying to occupy the headquarters of the ranch or to take hostages. No journalists or attorneys were taken hostage by the encamped activitists, who merely closed state highway PA-150 to protest for the freeing of rural workers detained by security. The journalists remained inside the ranch of their own free will, as the Military Police attests. We also clarify that:
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