{"id":126384,"date":"2019-01-21T12:01:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=126384"},"modified":"2019-01-28T10:44:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T10:44:44","slug":"cnn-brazil-will-have-an-evangelical-pastor-billionaire-edir-macedo-from-iurd-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/01\/cnn-brazil-will-have-an-evangelical-pastor-billionaire-edir-macedo-from-iurd-as-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Brazil Will Have an Evangelical Pastor, Billionaire Edir Macedo from IURD, as CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>An evangelical pastor will head the upcoming CNN Brasil and the channel will adhere to Bolsonaro\u2019s policies.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_126385\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cnn.jpg_1718483346.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126385\" class=\"wp-image-126385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cnn.jpg_1718483346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cnn.jpg_1718483346.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cnn.jpg_1718483346-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-126385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upcoming CNN Brasil\u2019s CEO will be an evangelical pastor.<br \/>| Photo: Reuters | Photo from teleSUR.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>17 Jan 2019<\/em> \u2014 Edir Macedo, an evangelist pastor will be the CEO of CNN Brazil. The United States media giant <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/CNN-Fires-Popular-Pundit-After-He-Defends-Palestine-Statehood-20181130-0002.html\" >Cable News Network (CNN)<\/a> will open for the first time in the Latin American country during the first year of the far-right President Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>RELATED: <\/em><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Brazil-Police-Attack-Protesters-Against-Bolsonaro-Policies-20190116-0038.html\" ><strong><em>Brazil: Police Attack Protesters Against Bolsonaro Policies<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There will be branches in S\u00e3o Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Bras\u00edlia, and the editorial line will be defined by the Brazilian bosses and not by the American group Turner.<\/p>\n<p>The opening of CNN Brasil is giving rise to the speculations that it will try to compete with the regional media chain Globo which has GloboNewsChannel. Globo is known for being critical towards the far-right president. Hence, many believe that CNN Brasil will be equivalent to Fox News in the U.S. which supports the U.S. President Donald Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrazil is an important country to follow the expansion of the CNN brand. This announcement is part of a global strategy to work with like-minded partners and see a clear opportunity for local CNN branded products and news,\u201d CNN Vice President of Sales Greg Beitchman told the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/human-wrongs-watch.net\/2019\/01\/18\/cnn-brazil-will-have-an-evangelical-pastor-as-ceo\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 human-wrongs-watch.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 Jan 2019 \u2014 Edir Macedo, an evangelist pastor will be the CEO of CNN Brazil. The United States media giant Cable News Network (CNN) will open for the first time in the Latin American country during the first year of the far-right President Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":126385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,180,53,62,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","category-brics","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean","category-media","category-religion-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}