MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Brazilian media fearful of Bolsonaro's threats to cut public sector marketing budgets
For Brazil's right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, attacking critical press outlets almost daily on social media is not enough. Once in office, he vows to hit their bottom line. With half a billion dollars in public-sector marketing budgets coming under his discretion, the former Army captain is threatening to slash ad buys with adversarial media groups, striking at the financial foundations of Brazil's free press. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesREF: “Record TV network increased coverage of the right-winger's rallies”:
Nov 05th, 2018 - 10:14 am - Link - Report abuse +1https://infonet.com.br/sysinfonet/images/secretarias/educacao/grande-midia-movimentos-sociais-charge16112012.jpg
And why should ANY government spend half-a-billion dollars of taxpayer's money on propaganda and publicity ? just to keep the TV stations and their leftist artists / journalists / political commentators, in clover ?
Nov 08th, 2018 - 07:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If the government spent those funds on public health, security etc, the population would see what they are doing, without having to advertise it on TV.
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Nov 08th, 2018 - 10:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Q: “Why should ANY government spend half-a-billion dollars of taxpayer's money on propaganda and publicity?”
Three Answers: REF: Tax-Payers' [hard-earned] money
A-1: A normal practice in all [supposed] democracies!
A-2: Opportunity to handle Caixa-2 + Maney Laundering!
A-3: Not even the Tax-Payers care!
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