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O Escriba blogs[PT] about the shocking difference between the covers of the Brazilian Veja magazine and the North-American New Yorker magazine about the end of Fidel Castro's long term on Cuba's government, and links to Luiz Carlos Azenha's blog post about the same subject[PT], that quotes the verbatim of the New Yorker's article on Castro.
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We can only lament for the fact that so-called most popular magazine in Brazil has gone down the hill and most of its readers don’t notice it. For the readers interesting in the subject, we have a few other related posts:
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/02/22/brazil-while-traditional-media-deals-with-lawsuits-blogs-report/
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/11/25/brazil-on-the-che-e-mails-and-credibility-of-journalism/
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/01/30/brazil-veja-magazine-and-the-anti-journalism-phenomenon/