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Brazil – Desperate to be Liked
The Brazilian government is monitoring the foreign press and other institutions to see what they are saying about Brazil, according to this story on Folha.com. Not surprisingly to me, the results show...
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The Subtitle Man is Scottish!
Politician: “I swear I am not responsible for starting that internet smear campaign against my rival!” Subtitle Man: “…I got my friend to start it!!!” I’m a cartoonist! The cartoon above...
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Folha, Falha and the Problems of Criticising
I finally got around to doing a press freedom’s story today that I’ve been meaning to do for a while. The story can be found here on the Financial Times Beyond Brics blog and is about the Folha de S....
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Scoring With Gol
One of the biggest differences between working in Mexico and Brazil has come in my relationship with local journalists. In Mexico, I had very little contact with the reporters at Mexican papers and...
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Common Good vs. Profit Still a Battleground
Sometimes it is hard to believe that Brazil really wants to advance. I’ve written a lot, and repeatedly lauded, the economic progress and the reduction of inequality that marked the Lula years, such as...
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Post, then Publicise – It’s Communication 101
Hacking has been in the news recently, with hackers, or crackers, as they supposedly call themselves, taking down a number of Brazilian sites last week, including many run by the federal government....
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Gol Airlines: A Flying Disgrace
I can’t think of a company that has so comprehensively betrayed its starting ethos as Gol Airlines. Before starting Gol in 2001, Constantino de Oliveira Jr. visited low cost, low fare airlines around...
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Reuters, Ricardo Teixeira and Resignation
It’s been 17 years, almost to the day, since I last wrote for Reuters. When I left Port-au-Prince in February 1995 to go to Mexico City I cut my ties with the news agency and moved on. Today I saw...
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Corruption, Oversight, Accidents. There’s A Link, People!
At least 28 of the 47 shopping centres in Sao Paulo are operating illegally because they do not have the proper permits to function, according to an investigation published on the front page of the...
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Why Can’t Celebs Set An Example On Drink Driving?
Celebrities, either through talent or opportunity or luck, or a mixture of all three, live charmed lives doing what they love and getting paid huge sums of money for it. Dira Paes, drink driver Society...
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