page_title: Criticism of Rede Globo
section_title: Operation Car Wash
hierarchical_section_title: Criticism of Rede Globo / Accusations of political influence / Operation Car Wash
caption_attribution_description: English: Lawyer and activist Glenn Greenwald.
context_page_description: Criticism of Rede Globo refers to the extensive history of controversies involving the Brazilian television network and Brazilian society in partnership with José Hawilla. The broadcaster has an unparalleled ability to influence Brazil's culture and to shape the country's public opinion. Globo's owners enriched themselves with government favors until they became billionaires.
  The main historical controversy surrounding the television network and the rest of the Globo Organizations media empire centers on both the support for the Brazilian military government and the censorship of pro-democracy developments in its news broadcasts. The military regime, according to critics of the broadcaster, provided government concessions to Marinho family's media group and specifically to the Globo television network which had a very poor coverage the 1984 Diretas Já protests. The Globo network itself admitted in the Jornal Nacional 49 years later, pressured by the 2013 protests in Brazil, that the support given to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état and the subsequent regime was "a mistake".
context_section_description: In an interview for the Agência Pública, after the first revelations of The Intercept about the actions of former judge Sérgio Moro in the Operation Car Wash, Glenn Greenwald said that Rede Globo and the "mainstream media", with the exception of the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo and independent journalists, worked with Lava Jato "publishing what the task force wanted them to publish."
  "When you denounce corrupt actions or deal with government issues, he always tries to distract by talking only about who revealed this corruption, who disclosed those crimes to criminalize people, journalists or sources who revealed the material. This strategy, not the journalists', is what Globo is using. Because the Globo and the Operation Car Wash task force are partners. And the documents show that, right? It's not just talking that because is about Globo. The documents show how Moro and Deltan are working together with Globo and we will report, so I know that already and the articles are showing that. But the rest of the mainstream media are treating the story with the gravity it deserves. It is impossible for everyone reading this material to defend what Moro did. Impossible! [...] I can say that exactly as I said today, Globo was to Operation Car Wash task force allied, friend, partner, partner. Just as the Operation Car Wash task force was the same for Globo."
  — Glenn Greenwald
  The broadcaster countered Greenwald's criticism in saying that Gleen had in fact contacted them to propose a new journalistic partnership because of the work that had been done on the revelations of Edward Snowden's global surveillance. Globo said that despite having been offered the material, the journalist did not want to provide information about the content of the revelations and the origin of the data. Because of this, the issuer would have refused the offer. On Friday, June 7, Greenwald sent an email stating that he had received no response from Globo and should assume that the station wasn't interested in reporting this material. There were no further contacts between the parties.
  "[...] cause outrage and revolt against the attacks he makes against Globo in the interview published by the Agência Pública. If his evaluation of Globo's journalism and the Operation Car Wash coverage over the last five years is that exposed in this interview, why he insisted so much to repeat "a winning partnership" and to be the subject of one of the most prestigious programs of the broadcaster? Globo covered the Operation Car Wash with correctness and objectivity, reporting its developments in other instances, always opening space for the defense of the accused. Greenwald's behavior in the episodes narrated here allows the audience to judge his character."
  — Rede Globo
  Ricardo Kotscho, writing to Observatório da Imprensa, criticized the journalistic coverage of SBT, Rede Globo and RecordTV given to the facts in relation to hackers and The Intercept:
  "This is what is happening in Brazil, with this rocambolic story of the fajute hackers of Araraquara, to hide what has already been investigated and denounced by The Intercept and other vehicles about the modus operandi of former judge Sergio Moro and his trained prosecutors. But this shielding is only possible because the country's three major TV networks have formed a safety net that hides the most important - the toxic content of Moro's dialogues with Lava Jato's attorneys - to exhaustively report the modus operandi of the tabajara hackers. Globo, Record and SBT left journalism aside to form a national network with a single news release, guided only by their commercial and political interests, as they did during the last presidential campaign. (...) Globo, as usual, is more sophisticated, more sinuous, gives an air of Olympic seriousness to the Bonners of the JN and does not lose the chance to publish editorials about its `exemption and impartiality', as if everyone were an idiot".
   Journalist Maria Beltrão is the sister of the founder of the Mises Brasil Institute, Hélio Beltrão.
caption: Journalist Glenn Greenwald, one of the editors from The Intercept.
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