{"id":29464,"date":"2016-06-10T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=29464"},"modified":"2016-07-04T04:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T07:00:37","slug":"whats-happened-to-the-brazilian-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=29464","title":{"rendered":"What’s Happened to the Brazilian Press?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas\"\"<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For the original article by Cleber Ara\u00fajo<\/a>\u00a0in Portuguese published on his Facebook page\u00a0<\/em>click<\/em> here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ever since the Juc\u00e1 recordings were released<\/a> by the powerful and influential media outlet Folha de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em>, a number of questions have come to mind: what’s gotten into Folha<\/em>?<\/p>\n

The decline of the nauseating, filthy Brazilian press is obvious to all. It’s hard to find a neophyte now, thanks to the Internet. The international press has exposed<\/a> how the Brazilian media manipulate politics<\/a>, and how they want desperately to continue to do so in order to reap the massive rewards. But this is coming to an end\u2026<\/p>\n

When the recordings were leaked\u00a0on Monday, May 23, 2016, we began to feel that something could change. Whose interest was being addressed by the leak? What message was Folha<\/em> trying to send?\u00a0These are questions we have to ask. Could it be that\u00a0they’re beginning to realize they’re\u00a0losing respect\u00a0in the world, losing credibility?<\/p>\n

When I see a Brazilian photographer like Pulitzer Prize<\/a> winner\u00a0Mauricio Lima<\/a>\u00a0published in the New York Times<\/em>, I see it as an answer from the world: the Brazilian press is falling behind.<\/p>\n

Every day we watch the growing desperation of TV anchors, editors, and journalists, who attempt to manipulate us with their partisan messages. Somebody please tell them that with the Internet\u00a0things have seriously changed. Most people now have access to other sources<\/a>. Foreign correspondents are here, simply observing, and showing the world that things are not as the Brazilian press would like to portray them. We can only be sure of one thing: What is going on with the Brazilian press?<\/p>\n

I am absolutely certain\u00a0that the Brazilian people are waking up from the inertia of having had a single source of information dominate their homes. I would like to tell them that alternative media<\/a> are also out there, telling it like it is, and becoming reliable news sources. Many others are producing general interest stories, and many reporters now visit places they never had before\u2013places the Brazilian media never goes, if you know what I\u2019m saying\u2026. Things are changing, Madame Brazilian Media, things are changing.<\/p>\n

Could it be that Folha<\/em> has begun to understand this? I hope so.<\/p>\n

All I know is that the poor now have a voice and access to more information and they are also producing their own<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The leaked recordings are a preview of things to come. Either the Brazilian media will change, or they will fail as badly as their already-failed newspaper serials, which aren’t even good enough to use as toilet paper.<\/p>\n

Cleber Ara\u00fajo Santos, 40, is a resident of Complexo do Alem\u00e3o<\/a>\u00a0who\u00a0showcases the favela in in its many forms and moments through social media. He shares daily content through the Complexo Alem\u00e3o Facebook page<\/a> and through the Facebook profile of\u00a0Mariluce Mari\u00e1<\/a>, a local artist who paints in the community<\/a> and has a stall at the Palmeiras cable car station.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas For the original article by Cleber Ara\u00fajo\u00a0in Portuguese published on his Facebook page\u00a0click here. Ever since the Juc\u00e1 recordings were released by the powerful and influential media outlet Folha de S\u00e3o […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":29492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1294,1328,1331,1330],"tags":[24,1653,32,2012,749,23,1845,1900,1781],"writer":[1790],"translator":[508],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-communitymedia","8":"category-by-community-contributors","9":"category-opinion-2","10":"category-translation","11":"tag-alternative-media","12":"tag-community-media","13":"tag-complexo-do-alemao","14":"tag-impeachment","15":"tag-internet","16":"tag-mass-media","17":"tag-media","18":"tag-media-narrative","19":"tag-opinion-2","20":"writer-cleber-araujo","21":"translator-rachel-fox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29464"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=29464"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=29464"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=29464"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=29464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}