{"id":72946,"date":"2016-05-02T12:02:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T11:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=72946"},"modified":"2016-05-02T12:47:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T11:47:26","slug":"nyt-photographer-mauricio-lima-2016-pulitzer-winner-denounces-globo-and-the-coup-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/05\/nyt-photographer-mauricio-lima-2016-pulitzer-winner-denounces-globo-and-the-coup-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Photographer Mauricio Lima, 2016 Pulitzer Winner, Denounces Globo and the \u201cCoup\u201d in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Para ler a vers\u00e3o desse artigo em Portugu\u00eas, <\/em>clique aqui<\/em><\/a>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

29 Apr 2016 – <\/em>Ten days ago, the photographer\u00a0Mauricio Lima was feted<\/a>\u00a0by Brazil\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0large corporate media<\/a> when he\u00a0won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize<\/a> for Breaking News Photography, the first Brazilian ever to win the award. Lima shared the Pulitzer\u00a0with fellow\u00a0New York Times<\/em> photographers\u00a0Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter, with whom he worked to produce a series of stunning photographs<\/a> documenting the journey of a Syrian refugee family, the Majids, as they traveled from\u00a0Greece to Sweden to seek asylum. The year before, Lima, along with two colleagues, was named a\u00a0Finalist in the same Pulitzer category<\/a> for his work in\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0New York Times <\/em>showing the devastation from the war in Ukraine. Last week, one columnist for\u00a0O Globo <\/em>quoted<\/a> Joseph Pulitzer\u2019s definition of journalism\u2019s purpose and\u00a0gushed that \u201cthere is no better definition to describe the work of\u00a0Maur\u00edcio Lima.\u201d<\/p>\n

But last night, Lima launched a direct, unflinching attack on the same Brazilian media outlets which, just days ago, were hailing him as a hero. Lima, along with the same three NYT\u00a0<\/em>colleagues, was named the winner<\/a> by the Overseas Press Club of the\u00a0John Faber award for \u201cbest photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers or news services.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a moving 3-minute speech<\/a>, Lima\u00a0accepted the award on behalf of his colleagues, and dedicated the prize to \u201cevery single refugee I came across last year, people oppressed by wars and social injustice.\u201d He paid particular tribute to the Majid family, who \u201caccepted for 29 days a stranger with a camera as part of their family.\u201d But he devoted\u00a0the last part of his speech to events in his home country, Brazil.<\/p>\n

\u201cI consider it very important to say a few words \u2013 I\u2019m from Brazil,\u201d he began, adding: \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure everyone here knows what\u2019s going on in Brazil at the moment.\u201d He continued: \u201cI would like to express my support for freedom of speech and democracy \u2014 which is exactly what\u2019s not<\/em> going on in Brazil at the moment.\u201d Punctuating his point was this final, simple sentence: \u201cSo I\u2019m against the coup.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most notably, the Pulitzer winner contrasted the \u201cvery high level professionals in journalism here\u201d \u2013 those gathered at the ceremony in New York \u2013 with the media outlets in Brazil openly inciting street protests and agitating for the exit of the elected president<\/a>. To underscore the point, he held up a sign that read \u201cGolpe: Nunca Mais\u201d \u2013 \u201cCoup: Never Again\u201d \u2013 with the \u201co\u201d in \u201cGolpe\u201d replaced by the logo of Globo, Brazil\u2019s largest and most influential media outlet that spent 20 years cheering the 1964 coup and military dictatorship that followed, and which has spent the last year flagrantly using its multiple media properties<\/a> to propagandize in favor of Dilma\u2019s impeachment.<\/p>\n

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Brazil\u2019s media has completely lost control of the narrative internationally<\/a>, but also increasingly within Brazil. Their sleazy\u00a0plan to install as president the corruption-tainted, deeply unpopular, oligarch-serving Vice President Michel Temer \u00a0\u2013 who just this week, in a indescribably Orwellian manner, called proposals for \u201cnew elections\u201d a \u201ccoup\u201d<\/a> \u2013 is becoming untenable. Prominent, universally respected international figures are becoming increasingly vocal about the dangerous assault on democracy; the latest is the Argentine Adolfo P\u00e9rez Esquivel, who won the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for his courageous work against his country\u2019s military dictatorship and\u00a0this week said<\/a>\u00a0during a visit to Brazil: \u201cIt\u2019s very clear that what\u2019s being mounted here is a concealed coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, which we call a bloodless coup,\u201d adding: \u201cIt would be a serious setback for the continent. I\u2019m a survivor from the days of the [military] dictatorship [in Argentina]. To strengthen democratic institutions cost us a great deal. And here they\u2019re under attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given his standing in international journalism, Lima\u2019s blunt denunciation of impeachment and the distinctly non-journalistic role of Globo,\u00a0is certain to accelerate this process.\u00a0You can watch his speech here:<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uTzbbFu6IoU<\/p>\n

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Glenn Greenwald<\/a> – \u2709glenn.greenwald@theintercept.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 theintercept.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brazil\u2019s media has completely lost control of the narrative internationally, but also increasingly within Brazil. Their sleazy plan to install as president the corruption-tainted, deeply unpopular, oligarch-serving Vice President Michel Temer \u2013 who just this week, in a indescribably Orwellian manner, called proposals for \u201cnew elections\u201d a \u201ccoup\u201d \u2013 is becoming untenable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72946","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=72946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}