{"id":151957,"date":"2020-01-20T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=151957"},"modified":"2020-01-27T11:14:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T11:14:52","slug":"brazil-bolsonaro-leads-2019-record-for-attacks-on-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/01\/brazil-bolsonaro-leads-2019-record-for-attacks-on-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: Bolsonaro Leads 2019 Record for Attacks on the Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

The far-right former Capitan accounted for three out of five press attacks in 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

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17 Jan 2020<\/em> \u2014 Brazil\u2019s National Federation of Journalists (Fenaj) yesterday presented its \u201cReport on Violence Against Journalists and Press Freedom\u201d, highlighting that 208 attacks on media outlets and journalists were reported in 2019, which means an increase of 54 percent over the previous year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main threat to press freedom in Brazil was carried out through 114 cases of \u2018attempts to discredit\u2019\u00a0the press,\u201d the\u00a0Fenaj said.<\/p>\n

The 2019 report includes this new type of violence because \u201cthe Presidency has institutionalized unfounded and widespread criticism to the media and journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Brazilian federation also reported that the number of cases of physical aggression\u00a0has decreased; however, 20 journalists were\u00a0killed in 2019.<\/p>\n

According to Fenaj, politicians were the main perpetrators of attacks. About 69 percent of the attacks were related to attempts to discredit the press.<\/p>\n

\u201cBolsonaro\u2019s Culture Secretary\u00a0paraphrases Nazi Joseph Goebbels\u2019 speech. His\u00a0citation, which reverberated on social networks, occurred in a video that announced the National Arts Award<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe Brazilian art of the next decade will be heroic and national. It will be endowed with a great capacity for emotional involvement and will be equally imperative, since it is deeply linked to the urgent aspirations of our people, or else it will be nothing.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/em>Roberto Alvin, Brazil\u2019s Culture Minister, January 15, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe German art of the next decade will be heroic, romantic, objective and free of sentimentality, national with great pathos and equally imperative and binding, or nothing.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u2014 <\/em>Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Culture Minister, October 8, 1933<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The far-right President Jair Bolsonaro<\/a> was the author of 121 attacks in 2019, equivalent to 58 percent of the total number of reported cases in the year.<\/p>\n

The latest\u00a0example of the Brazilian presidency\u2019s style occurred on Friday when\u00a0 citizens criticized the\u00a0Culture Minister\u00a0Roberto Alvim, who\u00a0had\u00a0previously published a video with clear Nazi connotations.<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro immediately posted\u00a0his own\u00a0video to defend his pupil through a threatening message.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo that press looking at me: I am above your glasses. Begin to produce truths\u2026 I will not take any action to try to censor you but have shame on your faces. Leave our government alone,\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bolsonaro shouted, as reported by local outlet Forum, which commented that\u00a0his video used Joseph Goebbels\u2019 tactics to intimidate.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n

\u201cBolsonaro\u2019s rise significantly affected press freedom,\u201d<\/em> Brasil de Fato recalled.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Source: teleSUR<\/a>
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