page_title: Criticism of Rede Globo
section_title: Beyond Citizen Kane
hierarchical_section_title: Criticism of Rede Globo / Other controversies / Beyond Citizen Kane
caption_attribution_description: Português: Chico Buarque recebendo o seu prêmio de melhor livro na 5º edição do prêmio BRAVO! Prime de Cultura em 2009. English: Chico Buarque receiving his award for best book in the 5th edition of the award BRAVO! Prime de Cultura in 2009.
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 1993, British network Channel 4 broadcast a documentary film directed by Simon Hartog and titled Beyond Citizen Kane, which tells the story of Rede Globo and its "dark deeds" in the country up to 1990. The documentary has been forbidden in Brazil since 1994, due to a lawsuit filed by Roberto Marinho. There are currently a few copies in circulation in Brazil, and pirated versions exist on the Internet (for example on YouTube). The film has the participation of artists, politicians, and experts: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Chico Buarque, Leonel Brizola, Washington Olivetto, and others. The documentary has never been shown on Brazilian theaters and the premiere showing that would normally take place in the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro was banned by the then president Itamar Franco.
  In Brazil the documentary received the Portuguese title Muito Além do Cidadão Kane. The title originated in character Charles Foster Kane, created in 1941 by writer and director Orson Welles for the film Citizen Kane, which in turn was a dramatized fiction based on the life of William Randolph Hearst the American newspaper business magnate. According to the documentary, Rede Globo uses the same vulgar manipulation of news to influence public opinion as Kane did in the movie. 
  According to an article published in the Folha de S.Paulo website on August 28, 2009, an independent production company created the film and the British public television BBC had no involvement in its development whatsoever. However, Rede Record (not part of Globo Organizations) maintains that the BBC was involved in the production.
  The documentary is divided in four parts:
  The first part shows the relationship between Rede Globo and the military regime period.
  The second part shows the deal struck between the Rede Globo and the American Time-Life Television.
  The third part demonstrates the power of the network's owner Roberto Marinho.
  The fourth part, considered the most important and revealing part of the film, clearly shows "the illegal activities and means of manipulation utilized by Globo Organizations in their shadow partnerships with the powers in Brasília". However, the documentary has no primary sources, only interviews.
  Rede Globo had attempted to purchase the rights to the film. However, before his death, director Simon Hartog formed an agreement with Brazilian organizations so that the domestic rights to the documentary would not fall into the hands of the network, in order to make it possible for it to be widely disseminated by political and cultural organizations. The network lost interest in buying the film after their lawyers discovered the clause, but to this day a court order prohibits the showing of Beyond Citizen Kane in Brazil. According to Folha de S.Paulo newspaper, in the 1990s the Rede Record network (not part of Globo Organizations) had tried to purchased the broadcast rights to the documentary, but "realized that there would be a legal dispute with the Rede Globo about the many video clips taken from their programming. Therefore it decided not to buy it". However, in August 2009, at the height of an exchange of accusations between the networks caused by money laundering charges of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, Rede Record finally bought the broadcast rights for the documentary for approximately $20 million US dollars, and awaits the authorization from the courts to show it on TV.
caption: Chico Buarque appeared in Beyond Citizen Kane, giving a testimonial for the production team.
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