Above: «Rural lobby controls 25% of Brazilian Congress». Also signficant is the fact that the sector’s leading lobbyist apparently collects two salaries: She is both leader of the agro bloc in the Senate and the president of the CNA, the largest national agroconfederation. Brasilianas.Org reports: BBC will produce content in, and export content from, Brazil in [...]
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As a wannabe beat reporter trying to get oriented in a strange land, my raison du blog is to identify influential media strategists and strategies and reverse engineer their techniques and implementations. In some cases, the structure of hyperlinks in a galaxy of related content provides evidence of a Collaborative Networked Organization (CNO) in action, [...]
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Civita is our homegrown Murdoch: The Observatório da Imprensa (Brazil) reprints this editorial response from CartaCapital magazine. The little newsweekly that could — brainchild of Veja founder Mino Carta and like-minded friends — deconstructs a recent O Globo editorial alleging that the argument «Roberto Civita is our homegrown Murdoch» fails to mutante the mutatis properly, and allegedly stems from [...]
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Other than this writeup in the regional Diário do Grande ABC, there was surprisingly little press coverage or public relations promotion of last week’s International Seminar on Freedom of the Press at IICS — the International Institute of Sciences, Social — here in São Paulo. The event takes place amid clamoring and yammering for a congressional [...]
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Why we avoided the Sambodian Virada Cultural Paulista | 2012, or, traduttores traditores. Neuza and I have not been consuming our fair share of Sambodian culture lately, owing both to ennui and to the odd work schedule of a traduttore traditore. We are also somewhat puzzled over the latest pet project supported by federal and state [...]
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In Brasilianas, journalist Luis Nassif fires another quixotic broadside at his target of choice, Veja magazine — one of Brazil’s premiere newsweeklies, in circulation if not in epistemological lucidity. He does so despite the remarkable volume of SLAPP suits he has endured for doing so. From time to time, I have done Nassif the small favor [...]
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Reporters Without Borders denies reports that it was “excluded” from UNESCO during this UN body’s most recent executive council session for a supposed “lack of ethics.” False reports to this effect have been circulated by certain media, especially in Latin America, without any attempt at verification. Rogério Christofoletti of objEthos, writing in the Observatório da Imprensa, is [...]
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Meio & Mensagem: Brazil’s federal advertising regulator bans a commercial for Red Bull involving the image of Jesus. News sites linking to the YouTube upload of the spot are advised that the company has blocked the video on intellectual property grounds. I translate. After receiving hundreds of protests, Conar today — [March 27] — decided [...]
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It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. –Winston Churchill, on Cold War Russia Foundations of networks of alliances of movements and federations of local chapters of state and national communities of practice of … Trying to make good, clean sense of international philanthropic actors requires [...]
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PPP Brasil | Pensamentos Programaticos Parciais « The New World Lusophone Sousaphone. Sem querer, postei essa nota no que passa para língua portuguesa aqui em casa no meu blog em inglês. Nela tento explicar por que o método de análise social de redes oferece uma ferramenta útil, levando em conta que as organizações «inovadoras» ensinadas [...]
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