Globo's "Profession:Reporter"; early nuclear exchanges in the Brazilian media monopoly wars; Notes on the economics of the Great Sino-Paraguayan Infotainment Black Market.

Notes on Cisco Brasil’s troubles with the (unbribed) tax man; Sergio Bianchi on human misery as fungible commodity; TV Gazeta on the hookers of “Latin America’s largest open-air sex market”; Slave labor in Pará: “I owe my soul to the company store.”

The wit and wisdom of a self-styled martyr to press freedom.

GLOBO IS THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE! IBOPE IS THE TRUE MEASURE OF THE POPULAR WILL, NOT THE BALLOT BOX! This proposition is quackingly absurd. As to whether the New Record will prove to be any different -- the old Record quacked plenty -- well, stay tuned.

find the editorial about-face by Globo's Fantástico news magazine in this case astonishing. A reliable purveyor of the most sensationalist kind of "anyone who questions the integrity of our brave men is a Communist" law-enforcement journalism, Fantástico here offers a sober challenge to the verisimilitude of a film being distributed by a company with an exclusive contract with a rival network. Será?

The death scene of the ball-busting, gut-shot corrupt policeman Nogueira in Record's primetime soap, "Opposite Lives" (Vidas Opostas) in all its histrionic glory. Government digital convergence policy conference. TV Band borks a competitor, the Grupo Abril, without mercy. Free risk management advice to foreign investors: Your business partners are needlessly pissing off people whose help you need to protect your investment. You need to provide some adult supervision. I am quite serious.

That segment on Orkut's legal situation is from early days and has evolved considerably since.

São Paulo nightclub owner and hotelier arrested after telling a local TV interviewer it would be hypocritical to deny his establishment is a deluxe bordello. TV news has been reporting that the way he got permission to build his hotel was, ahem, irregular and that the building presents a hazard to navigation at Congonhas, scene of a recent air disaster. This is his response, using that last frontier of freedom, the Internet! Plus Gigi + Sandra's art triumph! As seen on Rede Globo! Those grrrrls are our per

August 12, 2007: Son of the Smoking Hole! Iutubí ponto ponto! Bakke in the antipodes! The Bicho Who Stole Carnaval? Confessions of vigilante consumerism!