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Autor: Grupo de estudos Comunica | Publicado: 2016-04-22T08:32:00-03:00


  
Repórteres Sem Fronteiras denuncia mídia brasileira por apoio ao golpe

   21/04/2016&nbsp;

Miguel do Rosário  


  
     


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O mundo acordou de vez para o golpismo alucinado da 
imprensa brasileira. A ong Repórteres Sem Fronteiras, que faz um dos 
rankings mais respeitados do mundo sobre liberdade de expressão, 
rebaixou o Brasil mais cinco pontos, para 104, num conjunto de 180 
países. Em 2010, o Brasil estava em 58º lugar.


Diferente do que ocorre em alguns países, porém, o rebaixamento não 
ocorre por repressão de governos a jornalismo crítico, e sim o 
contrário: pela adesão de empresas de comunicação a uma agenda política 
antidemocrática. A ONG denuncia, sem meias palavras, o apoio da mídia 
brasileira ao golpe como uma das razões para o rebaixamento da pontuação
 do Brasil no ranking de liberdade de expressão.


Vou traduzir apenas um trecho. Os internautas que quiserem traduzir a íntegra, divulguem aí nos comentários.


Trecho: 


"(...) AO mesmo tempo, a propriedade dos meios de 
comunicação continua concentrada em mãos das famílias mais ricas, 
ligadas à classe política.

O problema dos "coroneis midiáticos", que a RSF descreveu em 2013 em 
seu relatório "O país dos 30 Berlusconis" continua intocável. 

Os "coroneis" são usualmente proprietários de terras, industriais, 
que também são deputados ou governadores, e controlam a opinião pública 
em suas regiões através dos meios de comunicação. Como resultado, os 
meios de comunicação são fortemente dependentes dos centros de poder 
político e econômico.

A cobertura da mídia brasileira à crise política em curso acentuou 
esse problema. De maneira pouco velada, os principais meios de 
comunicação incitaram o público a ajudar na derrubada da presidenta 
Dilma Rousseff. 

Os jornalistas que trabalham nestes grupos estão claramente sujeitos à
 influência de interesses privados e partidários, e este permanente 
conflito de interesses prejudicam fortemente a qualidade de suas 
reportagens."
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No site da ONG Repórteres Sem Fronteiras.


April 20, 2016


Brazil falls in Press Freedom Index, now 104th


Continuing conflicts of interest in the Brazilian media and a very 
disturbing level of violence against journalists have caused Brazil to 
fall another five places in the 2016 World Press Freedom Index, 
published today by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).


Brazil is now ranked 104th out of 180 countries, a position clearly 
unworthy of a country meant to be a regional model. It was ranked 58th 
in 2010.


Why has this happened? The most important reason is increasing 
violence against journalists and a lack of political will at the highest
 level to protect journalists effectively. As well as the fall in the 
rankings, Brazil’s performance indicator, which measures the level of 
media freedom violations, rose from 25.78 in 2014 to 31.93 in 2015 – a 
significant deterioration.

The Latin American giant nonetheless remains ahead of some of its 
regional neighbours such as Ecuador (109th), Guatemala (121st), Colombia
 (134th), Venezuela (139th), Mexico (149th) and Cuba (174th).

In Brazil, an economic recession and political instability have 
reinforced the main obstacles to media freedom and the climate of 
hostility towards journalists. At the same time, media ownership 
continues to be concentrated in the hands of leading industrial families
 linked to the political class.

The problem of Brazil’s “colonels,” which RSF described in 2013 in 
its report, “The country of 30 Berlusconis,” has continued unabated. The
 so-called “colonels’ are usually major landowners or industrialists who
 are also legislators or state governors and who control opinion-making 
in their regions because, directly or indirectly, they own several local
 media outlets. As a result, the media are heavily dependent on the 
centres of economic and political power.


Brazilian media coverage of the country’s current political crisis 
has highlighted the problem. In a barely veiled manner, the leading 
national media have urged the public to help bring down President Dilma 
Rousseff. The journalists working for these media groups are clearly 
subject to the influence of private and partisan interests, and these 
permanent conflicts of interests are clearly very detrimental to the 
quality of their reporting.


Brazil’s fall in the Index is also the result of the lack of a 
national mechanism for protecting journalists in danger and for 
combatting the prevailing impunity for crimes of violence against 
journalists, which is facilitated by the ubiquitous corruption.


With seven journalists murdered in 2015 alone, Brazil continues to be
 the western hemisphere’s third deadliest country for media personnel, 
after Mexico and Honduras. All of them were investigating sensitive 
subjects such as corruption and organized crime.
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Organized crime’s firm hold on certain regions far from any major 
city makes covering these subjects particular complicated there, while 
the failure to punish most murders of journalists encourages their 
recurrence.


Finally, there has been no let-up in the growing problem of military 
police violence against journalists during street demonstrations, a 
problem that began in 2013. Both Brazilian and foreign journalists 
covering demonstrations are often insulted, threatened or arbitrarily 
detained. They are also often directly targeted by demonstrators, who 
identify them with the owners of the media they work for.

Published annually by RSF since 2002, the World Press Freedom Index 
measures the level of freedom available to journalists in 180 countries 
using the following criteria – pluralism, media independence, media 
environment and self-censorship, legislative environment, transparency, 
infrastructure, and abuses.