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Brazil: Struggling to deliver the deeper messages

Friday, May 30th, 2008 @ 21:14 UTC

by Paula Góes

Countries:: Brazil
Topics:: Indigenous, Media
Languages:: Portuguese

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Malagasy:	Brezila: Fahasarotana hamoaka ny hafatra lalina...
Português:	Brasil: Lutando para passar a mensagem mais importante...

“It's incredibly interesting to see how differently the same event can be reported. That was certainly the case last week when the Indians gathered to protest the building of dams along the Xingu River in the Amazon basin”. Lou Gold takes a look at the Brazilian mainstream media and compares it with the same issue as reported by blogs and NGOs, which “have been struggling to deliver the deeper messages.”

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[...] were ‘leaked’ first in a blog that is now claiming attribution rights for its scoop, to the enraged protest caught on camera against the building of dams along the Xingu River in the Amazon basin where an official of [...]

# 2008-06-1 at 0:52 am
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[...] were ‘leaked’ first in a blog that is now claiming attribution rights for its scoop, to the enraged protest caught on camera against the building of dams along the Xingu River in the Amazon basin where an official of [...]

# 2008-06-1 at 1:25 am

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