Criticism of TV Globo

[17] However, the media conglomerate denied that Rede Globo's growth was due to the close relationship between Roberto Marinho and the military regime, citing the difficulties in obtaining licenses for TV stations in the cities of João Pessoa and Curitiba in 1978.

[17] In his autobiography, Walter Clark, the general manager of Rede Globo, confessed to canceling the programs of journalist Carlos Heitor Cony and economist Roberto Campos to satisfy the chief of police of Rio de Janeiro.

[18] He hired a former government censorship agent to "read everything going on air" and formed an advisory committee composed of general Paiva Chave, right-wing conservative hard-liner Edgardo Manoel Erickson, and "some five or six employees".

25 January happened to be the founding date of São Paulo, and supposedly due to a technical error, the news anchor announced that the rally was part of the ceremonies marking the 430th anniversary of the city.

The scheme would have prevented the victory of Leonel Brizola, candidate for the Democratic Labour Party (PDT), by counting all blank, invalid, null, and hanging chad votes to his opponent Moreira Franco.

[21] According to journalist Hélio Fernandes of newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa, the scheme did not succeed only due to the involvement of the deputy from the Rio de Janeiro Police, Manoel Vidal, who had been sent to officiate the vote count.

On January 13, the congressman Luís Viana Neto, an shareholder of TV Aratu, along with 19 other deputies, went to Brasília to complaint to then president José Sarney about the supposed interference of Magalhães in the state communications.

[33] On January 23, Globo overturned this injunction through a writ of mandamus at the Court of Justice of the State of Rio de Janeiro, ensuring the transmission of its programming by TV Bahia, which started the new affiliation as soon as received the notification, at 5:58 pm that day.

[34] Shortly after, Pedro Jack Kapeller, then director of Rede Manchete, stated that there was no need to take legal action regarding TV Bahia's position, as "everything happened strictly within the norms stipulated by the contracts signed between the parties".

Brazil's economic crisis due to the return of hyperinflation, the confiscation of Brazilians' bank savings,[48] and the intense investigative journalism of the press precipitated the grassroots social protests that culminated with Collor's impeachment.

[53] In the written response, approved by the Judge of Law of the 18th Criminal Court of Rio de Janeiro City and read on-air by news anchor Cid Moreira, Brizola stated that he did not recognize Grupo Globo as an "authority in matters of freedom of the press" and that the media empire had a "long and friendly relationship with the authoritarian regime and with the 20-year dictatorship that had ruled our country".

[54] In a retrospective article in 2009, media observer Observatório da Imprensa weighed in that "Brizola's contributions to the country, in the political arena and in social progress, were never that great [...] but this famous incident was a watershed event in the history of the freedom of the press.

[61] In the letter, Vianna claims, like Azenha, that network orders barred reports and investigations involving the Brazilian Social Democracy Party and its gubernatorial candidate for São Paulo state José Serra.

[65] However, competing network SBT showed a video recording of Serra being hit by a paper ball, walking until he received a phone call, and 20 minutes later,[66] putting his hand on his head to complain about the "blow".

[66] The incident generated a wave of criticism on Twitter due to the false version of events promoted by Rede Globo, trending the hashtags #SerraRojas (a reference to Chilean soccer player Roberto Rojas who deliberately injured himself during a match) and #BolinhadePapelFacts ("paper ball facts").

[68] Five days later, the magazine Veja published an article titled "Beating club in democracy", in which journalist Fabio Portela accused SBT of omitting the footage of the roll of duct tape that had been thrown at Serra's head.

In SBT Brasil the next day, Friday, the news presenter Carlos Nascimento returned to the topic, pointing out that the second event was not captured by his team, but stressed that the candidate Jose Serra was hit twice in a span of a few minutes.

The Jornal Nacional, in an independent report, confirmed the findings of Folha.Rede Globo was criticized for its coverage of the Mensalão scandal, a corruption trial involving the Workers' Party, which coincided with the Brazilian municipal elections of 2012.

[82] The journalist Miguel do Rosário, who is not an employee of Grupo Globo, reported on a similar case that occurred in the Department of Data Processing of the State of São Paulo's wireless network, where someone had inserted a slanderous statement in the Portuguese language Wikipedia's biography of Brazilian musician Raul Seixas.

But this shielding is only possible because the country's three major TV networks have formed a safety net that hides the most important - the toxic content of Moro's dialogues with Lava Jato's attorneys - to exhaustively report the modus operandi of the tabajara hackers.

We joke here at Coritiba that Wednesday's games only roll after the last kiss of the soap opera.Rede Globo is frequently accused of holding a monopoly on sports broadcasts, primarily the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol.

The monopoly, which began in the early 1990s, was possible because of the launch of the first subscription-TV services (cable and satellite) in Brazil, which coincided with the withdrawal of major competing networks' interests in airing such sporting events because they had high transmission costs and low ratings.

[5] A document dated 15 September 2006, released by WikiLeaks in 2013, stated that Rede Globo passed to UNESCO only 10% of the amount collected since 1986 through the annual Criança Esperança telethon, a charity fundraiser benefiting poor children and promoted in partnership with the United Nations.

[103] According to an article published on the Folha de S.Paulo website on 28 August 2009, an independent production company created the film and the British public television broadcaster BBC had no involvement in its development whatsoever.

[105] In August 2009, at the height of an exchange of accusations between the networks caused by money laundering charges of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, Rede Record bought the broadcast rights for the documentary for approximately $20 million US dollars and awaits the authorization from the courts to show it on TV.

A forensic examination of the documents performed in 2003 by the Del Picchia institute in São Paulo revealed that the signatures were forged, the names of persons deceased before the transfer were included, and typewriters, which did not exist in the country at the time, were used.

[113] On 25 February 2009, TV Diário, a network belonging to Sistema Verdes Mares, stopped its transmission for satellite dishes, through which it reached South America, parts of the Caribbean, and its affiliate stations spread throughout Brazil.

This led the Brazilian Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transvestite and Transsexual Association (ABGLT) to file a complaint with the Regional Prosecutor for Citizen Rights in São Paulo against Rede Globo for defamation against the physically disabled.

[125] In 2015, Rede Globo was featured on the Ciência sem Fronteiras international scholarship program and stated that the Brazilian government had delayed the disbursement of funds, thus forcing medical student Amanda Oliveira to return to Brazil from abroad.

[126] Rede Globo violated historical conservation standards of the Igreja Matriz de Santo Antônio church in the city of Tiradentes when filming the miniseries Hilda Furacão, based on the novel of the same name.