Gagged in Brazil

As a former Journalism student, daughter of two Journalists and a Brazilian citizen, I can attest that it is true. Actually the situation is way worse. I would say that the great majority of the Brazilian media is in control of a few families and their "friends", like the Marinhos (Globo), the Civitas (Ed Abril), the Frias (Folha de Sao Paulo), the Mesquitas (O Estado de Sao Paulo). All of them had some level of participation in the Military Dictatorship in the 60s/70s/80s. The Marinhos acquired their network (which is a concession in Brazil) from the military, and in a time when you couldn't have foreign capital invested in the Brazilian media, they got hidden financing from Time-Life with the agreement of the government. The Frias supported the coup and even lent delivery vans for the police/armed forces to transport political prisoners from one session of torture to another. The Mequitas' situation is a little better, they supported the coup but withdrew their support when the military instituted previous censorship to all forms of culture. With the return of the democracy, they tended to have a more anti military leaning, but tended to support the conservative side of it. Of course people who actively participated in the previous dictatorial regime tended to remake their images and ended up joining the aforementioned more conservative side. That begun the very fruitful alliance between PSDB, the conservatives I was talking about, and the now called DEM (former PFL- ARENA) the supporters of the military, which used to include the now deceased Antonio Carlos Magalhaes, ex-governor of Bahia and the the owner of Globo concession in that state. In the 1989 presidential elections Lula was a candidate, Globo purposefully edited the debate between him and his opponent Fernando Collor de Mello, showing only Lula's bad speeches and Collor's good parts. Civita's Veja magazine (the Brazilian version of Time) used to be have good articles, but now, it is basically a printed version of FoxNews. Folha, after the regime partially repented, but now is going in the same way as Veja. O Estado de Sao Paulo diverges a little from those all, as it always declared itself conservative, so at least it is honest in its bias.

There is a neologism for this kind of media used by some sectors of the left in Brazil, PIG (Partido da Imprensa Golpista - Pro-coup Press Party).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_da_Imprensa_Golpista

That's funny. I think TV Globo is a spitting image of Current TV. This whole website is slanted liberal. When's the last time Current ran a story not attacking Bush, or global warming, or gay rights, or something negative about how conservatives have been running things. It's all stories of Iraq proxy wars, or dwelling on the economy. I bet current would never hire a conservative journalist. Believe what you want but don't let these people spoon feed you what they all think.

It's sad to hear about those issues that permeated Brazil during the disgraceful military dictatorship.

Shame on Aecio. PSDB is trying to cover up.
As "mineiro", I feel really sad to hear about it.

Congrat Daniel.
That is what we need, to show the truth.

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I can't believe this is happening. I understand that as a journalist, your job is to inform people objectively, but none of this information should ever be banned, controlled or regulated in this manner.

I just cannot believe this video is still going on . As a Harvard student that always log on current.com and believe very much on its information and all, it is just unacceptable. How can I, we rely on this tv/ site when we see such video which does not tell the truth and puts the life and job of serious journalists on the spot ???
This is the opposition of a fine Goverment using this site in a wrong way . Are you going to let this continue happening ?

I am really trying to understand how come such a respected web chanel like this accepts to post or to continue showing a fact that simply did not happened. That hurts the people involved and especially the integrity of those serious journalists mentioned.

I think this is very strange. If a person records two contradictory testimonies, how are we supposed to know which one is the right and real one? Why can't the first one be false?

Not everything looks like it is .
I know this topic very well and I assure this video is an absolutly non sence one .Just by informing that the statement of both Brazilian journalists Ugo Braga and Marco Nascimento were already said not to be true by both of them for over a year .
Why has the author of this video hidden this fact ?

Congrats for the documentary.

Actually the press in Minas Gerais has been runned under the state government interests.

There is an invisible deal to give to the people a positive perception of the state policies at the State.

Let's continue the fight.

Libertas quae sera tamém.

In this clip, there was a website that played video clips from liberdade essa palavra . What is the url of that site?

Why does it seem like a sudden realization that High levels of government silence media that they don't like?

The complete absense of critisizm is exactly what make people not trust a man.

FYI, that works in the opposite for Bush

Yeah, and the LAST thing I'de want to do is F*** around with a Brazilian resistance group. Those suck.

It's a shame when you can not freely tell an entirly true story. Certinly somewhere a resistance group is brewing.