The next big Brazilian import from Miramax is selling like hotcakes in the pirate market in Brazilian cities. Here's a Paraguayan preview, of a training scene reminiscent of Kubrick's "Full-Metal Jacket."
TV Record soap opera Vidas Opostas ("Opposite Lives") tackles an issue that the news media tackles only in a sporadic and sketchy way: The militias of Rio de Janeiro. I have gisted a passage from the program for your English-language edutainment.
Rio military police get into a firefight in downtown Rio. The local TV news defines the term "banana republican" with its Lacerdist, CNN-style "coverage" of events. Later, a police official is arrested for finagling the release of the ringleader of the attempted invasion of a retail point of sale by the Comando Vermelho. Welcome to hell
Psychiatrist: "Environment is the most significant factor" in determining corrupt behavior. Globo: "Corrupt persons are born! Not made!" Globo gabbles reliably. A true textbook case of the "folklore of corruption."
A little exercise in analysing press-government relations as the Ecuadorn government uses YouTube to promote talking points omitted by press coveage it considers inflammatory.
Telephone conversation with governor is recorded; opposition alleges electoral crime. Have a listen. Plus: There's something funny about Glenn Reynolds's "An Army of Davids" ...
Crazy alagamento experiene in São Paulo. It's a Tupi entupido thing, you would not understand. Soundtrack: Tzadik, from "17 Lyrics of Li Po" by Harry Partch.
Video taken by pollwatchers inside an IFE office on July 11. In the presence of a PAN official and the local IFE chief, they are opening ballot boxes and manipulating ballots without judicial authorization. Caught red-handed by a PRD film crew, they say they are complying with an order to "clean up" the ballot boxes by "removing trash."
Telemundo takes a look at Televisa and TV Azteca, media monopolies operated as instruments of social control and political corruption ... who now want to operate in the U.S. Spanish-language market. Subtitled for the Romance-language impaired.
Haven't we already imported enough Tex-Mex style democracy for one decade?
TV Record covers a shootout in a Rio shantytown. The ranting anchorman denounces human rights groups, says "The Colonel" is a personal friend of his, and says that overemphasis on police corruption is "Communism." Fairly typical populist TV journalism.
Telemundo interviews a man who helped to fix five elections in Mexico. He mentions a case in the recent election which perfectly illustrates the technique he describes. NMM-TV presents it to you MTV-style.
On Globo's RodaViva, a Veja reporter confronts the former Globo TV commentator, now Brazil's Tony Snow, who successfully sued it for printing nonexistent facts about him. In doing so, he states more nonexistent facts. Ecce Veja.
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