Brazil’s Big Media Ignores Temer’s Confession – Except Estadão Columnist Who Falsely Claimed Video W
Brazils Big Media Ignores Temers Confession Except Estadão Columnist Who Falsely Claimed Video Was Altered
Glenn Greenwald
Sep. 23 2016, 9:57 a.m.
The Intercept Brasils Inacio Vieira yesterday reported one of the most significant pieces of evidence yet about the real reason for the impeachment of Brazils elected President Dilma Rousseff. Speaking to a group of U.S. business and foreign policy elites, the countrys installed President, Michel Temer, admitted that what triggered the impeachment process was not any supposed budgetary crimes, but rather Dilmas opposition to the neo-liberal platform of social program cuts and privatization demanded by Temers party and the big business interests that fund it.
But whats as revealing as Temers casual acknowledgement of coup-type motives is how Brazils large media which united in favor of impeachment has completely ignored his comments. Literally not one of Globos countless media properties, nor the nations largest newspaper Folha, nor any of the nations large political magazines, has even mentioned these stunning and incriminating remarks from the countrys president. Theyve imposed a total blackout. While numerous independent journalists and websites have reported Temers admission, none of Brazils major media outlets have uttered a word about it.
The only exception to this wall of silence was a columnist from the right-wing newspaper Estadão, Lúcia Guimarães, who spent several hours on Twitter yesterday completely humiliating herself in a spirited attempt to deny that Temer actually said this. She began by insinuating that The Intercept Brasil made a suspicious cut in the video that altered reality basically accusing Vieira of committing fraud without the slightest evidence, all to protect Temer.
Then, after a Folha columnist sent her a link to the full video showing that nothing was distorted, she nonetheless announced that she will only believe Temer said this once she sees the drives from each camera simultaneously played, and she added that what makes the story so suspicious is that President Temer is a best-selling author of a book on constitutional law who would not say such a thing about impeachment. Only once the full transcript of Temers remarks was posted would she finally admit that he really said it, but rather than retract her false accusations or apologize to Vieira and The Intercept Brasil for having implied the video was fraudulently edited, she instead simply posted the relevant part of Temers remarks without reference to her prior efforts to smear Vieira, as though she was the one who discovered and was reporting these comments for the first time. Even once she did finally admit the truth about Temers remarks, she bitterly claimed that impeachment opponents were turning the story into a carnival and were celebrating the revelation.
More:
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/23/brazils-big-media-ignores-temers-confession-except-estadao-columnist-who-falsely-claimed-video-was-altered/
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)So *ONLY* after Dilma is out does Glenn Fucking Greenwald become a critic of the Brazilian government... How fearless and adversarial.
I truly hope Glenn does go full-throttle in attacking the Brazilian elite -- He'll get a .45 through the dome and I'll finally be rid of him.
Judi Lynn
(160,515 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and if Greenwald had *really* been going after the Brazilian elite for a very long time, he wouldn't still be in perfect health, shall I say...
https://cpj.org/2016/07/muckraking-brazilian-journalist-killed-outside-his.php