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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Bicho de sete cabeças: Racketeer «Captain» Guimarães (left) with Rio mayor Cesar «The Naked» Maia (second from left), Carnval 2007. A steady drip of confidential criminal intel maintains the diversified gambling racketeer Carlinhos Cachoeira — «Charlie Waterfall» — at the top of the Brazilian newshour, 24-7. The vigorous Rashomon effect observed seems to flow in [...]
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A reasonably thorough scanning of Brazil’s «progressive blogophere» turns up a Wikileaks moment: Lei dos Homens offers the entire federal police and prosecutorial case file on the corruption case that has led the political opposition into yet another ugly crisis . Dropbox, however, is informing me that the customer account is receiving too much traffic and cannot [...]
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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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«The lawmaker and the outlaw law breaker».Photo montage: SBT network From the Terra news portal, further developments in the decline and fall of Senator Demóstenes Torres, this time published first in Globo’s Época weekly newsmagazine. Senator Demóstenes Torres allegedly requested the assistance of racketeer Carlinhos Cachoeira in procuring World Cup contracts for a friend’s public relations firm in [...]
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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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Brasil Escola – an educational publication of Brazil’s Record media group — observes, correctly, a major source of difficulty in trying to cover, in any comprehensive way, the actions of corporate, private and third-sector lobbies, and combinations thereof. The trouble is that the lobbying industry here is just about as unregulated as Liberty Valence. I translate: [...]
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