Brazil: Corrupted sports media

Posted 25 January 2008 8:23 GMT

Countries	Brazil
Topics	Sport, Media & Journalism
Languages	Portuguese

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Paulinho, a Brazilian journalist, has compiled facts and provided comprehensive evidence of a criminal scheme in the sports media in São Paulo. He has investigated Futebol Interior website, which promotes clubs, managers and players who pay bribes to them, while destroying those who refuse to do so. Other bloggers are picking up the story from Blog do Paulinho [pt].

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