Brazil instructs federal communications agencies to reduce coverage of the murder of Marielle Franco

Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 16:00 UTC

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Journalists and radio broadcasters at Empresa Brasileira de Comunicação (Brazil Communication Company, or EBC), a federal public agency, protested on March 20 against direction given by company managers to reduce coverage of the murders of Marielle Franco, a city councilor for Rio de Janeiro, and her driver Anderson Gomes, both killed in a March 4 shooting. Read full article

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Enrique Massot
“Not to cover demonstrations over the death of the councilwoman.”

Kudos to MP for running this story. Is there anything else that needs to be said?

Most people today form their opinion for the most part on what they hear from the media.

As a result, controlling the message is vital for the powers that be.

So, let Brazil's media fester on Lula da Silva's alleged corruption and stop talking so much about inconvenient topics such as the assassination, execution-style, of Marielle Franco.

Democracy at its best.
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DemonTree
Totally agree.
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:o))
@EM:

REF: “inconvenient topics”:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/stop-and-search-this-poor-community-in-rio-says-yes-please/2018/03/25/df38e4e8-2b73-11e8-8dc9-3b51e028b845_story.html?utm_term=.61b0686db10c
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