Posted on June 12, 2008 by Colin Brayton
Low-tech: Gen. Naranjo of the National Police displays dead-tree PowerPoint flipbook of the Reyes gizmo collection.
La Corte pediría asistencia de Scotland Yard para analizar computador de Reyes:”Colombian Supreme Court may ask for assistance of Scotland Yard to analyze Reyes computer” (AP/El Espectador).
Headline on TV Globo and TV Record News (Brazil) today: “Colombian government expects Scotland [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2008 by Colin Brayton
Bat macumba oba: The Batman shield marks protected homes and businesses in Rio’s Western District — and appears in the campaign advertising of two local candidates. Source: TV Record Rio.
A follow-up to:
“Militia Mount Terrorist Attack on Rio Police Precinct”
Deputado Natalino chama delegado da 35ª DP de mentiroso e doente mental: Rio state lawmaker Natalino, who [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2008 by Colin Brayton
A couple of months back, IstoÉ magazine apologized for having Photoshopped out a message criticizing São Paulo governor José Serra (“Down with Serra!”) from a photo of an MST rally. Left: The photo IstoÉ ran. Right: the unretouched photo. As if no one already knew that the PSDB and the Landless Workers do not [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2008 by Colin Brayton
Two things only the people anxiously desire: / Bread and circuses. –Juvenal, Satires, No. 10, l. 80-1.
Item:
Journalism Within the Limits of the Possible
Sylvia Moretzsohn
Observatório da Imprensa (Brazil)
June 10, 2008
Translated C. Brayton
boi.zebu.editorial.services at gmail dot com
Silvia Moretzsohn makes a gutsy point: What on earth were O Dia reporters doing working undercover and in disguise in a [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2008 by Colin Brayton
Senator Heraclites Fortes of the DEM, the party of morality and decency. Source: Globo/TV Senado, potted off my Samsung flatscreen with a JVC Everio.
Yesterday afternoon I was confined to base, looking after the two new puppies while scribbling and scheming in my home office.
On the boob tube (live and constantly interrupted on GloboNews, in the [...]
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