Ex-president Lula da Silva delivered an historical speech in São Bernardo do Campo, on March 10th, 2021, two days after the annulment of Operation Car Wash convictions. Below is the full transcript. I was sitting at your place and I was finding it a little difficult to understand the words you were saying, possibly because you […]
“Calm down, let me answer,” PT presidential candidate says during one of his 64 interruptions. by Brian Mier Formed with government support during the military dictatorship, TV Globo has a long history of performing character assassination against Workers Party politicians, as shown in the documentary Beyond Citizen Kane, which Globo worked to censor in Brazil, and […]
By Gabriel Deslandes. The successive institutional crises of Brazil, along with the social chaos provoked by the economic crisis, installed a climate of an apparently unforseen collective mistrust which all conventional politicians seem to be engulfed in. Globo, whose responsibility in this was central, couldn’t be out of this conjuncture. The network, who never inspired […]
By Gabriel Deslandes. When the Worker’s Party PT saw itself being pressured like never before by the media coverage of the “mensalão” scandal, its’ leaders probably did not imagine that years later, an investigation of illegal currency exchange operations and capital flight by the Federal Police would end up influencing a campaign of public demoralization […]
By Gabriel Deslandes. There’s something unforeseen stirring up in the empire of the biggest telecommunications network in Latin America. For the first time in a while, Rede Globo is confronted with adversaries contesting its’ power. For more than 50 years, the Globo group consolidated its absolute influence as the institution which is capable of not […]
Journalist and Director Victor Fraga talks about his new project, an update on 1993’s essential Beyond Citizen Kane which has a crowdfunding campaign to make it happen. “A Fantástica Fábrica de Golpes” from Valnei Nunes Filho on Vimeo. In Brazil, there’s a popular saying: “if TV Globo didn’t show it, it never happened”. This […]
Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and first broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group, the largest in Brazil, and discusses the group’s influence, power, and political connections.[2] Globo’s president and founder Roberto Marinho was criticised […]
Brasil has a healthy and noisy media landscape; from sophisticated daily papers and weekly magazines comparable to any in Europe, right through to trashy supermarket rags like you see across the United States. But at the top level there is a deep undercurrent of conservatism that often goes unnoticed, a conservatism that pre-dates any of […]