Criticism of Rede Globo

Criticism of TV Globo (formerly Rede Globo until 2021) refers to the extensive history of controversies involving the Brazilian television network, which has an unparalleled ability to influence Brazil's culture and shape the country's public opinion.Barrocal, André (13 de novembro de 2013). "A batalha da TV". ''CartaCapital''. p. 28-33. The owners of Rede Globo had enriched themselves with government favors to become billionaires. The Globo Grupo are remanagment the branding in the internet for self-promote since 2010's decade.

The main historical controversy surrounding the television network, as well as the remainder of Grupo Globo (formerly known as Globo Organizations) media empire, is centered on the news broadcasts' support for the Brazilian military government and its censorship of pro-democracy developments. According to critics of the broadcaster, the military regime provided government concessions to Rede Globo, which had very poor coverage of the 1984 Diretas Já protests. In 2013, pressured by protests in Brazil, Rede Globo admitted in the ''Jornal Nacional'' that its support given to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état and the subsequent regime was "a mistake".

In the late 1980s, Grupo Globo was targeted by critics due to edits made to the pre-recorded television debates between the presidential candidates in the 1989 election. The edits to the final debate favored candidate Fernando Collor de Mello, who won the election. Towards the end of the 1990s, Grupo Globo faced severe financial problems and was bailed out by the government, despite being a strictly private company. During this period, the conglomerate utilized its influence in the political arena and changed an article in the Constitution of Brazil to allow 30% of foreign capital investment in the country's media sector.

In 2002, the federal government offered R$280million in assistance to the Globocabo cable TV company, part of Grupo Globo, by financing through the Brazilian Development Bank.

Rede Globo was again criticized for its biased coverage of the 2006 and 2010 elections.

Accusations of political influence

Support of military regime

TV Globo was founded in 1965 as Rede Globo, one year after the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, and it became the largest television network in Brazil during the 1970s. During this period, Brazil's military government implemented a policy to modernize Brazil's telecommunications infrastructure. In 1965, the government created Embratel at the same time that Brazil was joining Intelsat. In 1968, the Ministry of Communications was created, the first FM radio stations appeared, and the AERP (Assessoria Especial de Relações Públicas) was created, reinforcing the need to propagate patriotic ideas and nationalism. Brazil integrated with the global system of satellite communications in 1969. The military government intended to oppose the left, which was culturally dominant at the time. One of the government's weapons would have been television, with the regime turning a blind eye to the partnership between the former Chairman of Grupo Globo Roberto Marinho and the multinational Time-Life Television, which was prohibited by law. This illegal partnership contributed to the technological jump of Rede Globo.

According to Grupo Globo, the conglomerate's newspaper ''O Globo'' supported the 1964 military coup by following the "widely held majority opinion" against the administration of former president João Goulart."Acusações Falsas"
. Memória Globo. 2012. Page accessed on 12 February 2013. Grupo Globo also stated that Roberto Marinho believed in the democratic aspirations of the military president Castelo Branco and the efficiency of the economic policies developed by Minister of Planning Roberto Campos and Minister of Finance Octavio Gouvêa de Bulhões. 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. Rede Globo had some cases of censorship in its programming, and some of its professionals were members of the Brazilian Communist Party.

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.Ferreira, Argemiro
"A Globo e a ditadura militar"
''Observatório da Imprensa''. 6 April 2010. Page accessed on 12 February 2013. 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". Clark received visits from military president Emílio Garrastazu Médici because of his offices at Rede Globo, and they would watch soccer matches shown by the broadcaster on Sundays. According to Clark, the so-called "Globo standard of quality" ended up "going through the looking-glass of a regime which the TV Globo professionals never agreed with".

In interviews made for the British documentary film ''Beyond Citizen Kane'' (1993), former Minister of Justice Armando Falcão claimed that "Roberto Marinho never gave me any problems. When I was the minister in charge of censorship and he was the director of the TV Globo network, Radio Globo, Radio Mundial and Radio Eldorado, he never gave me any trouble." In an interview about Rede Globo's news program ''Jornal Nacional'', the military president Emílio Garrastazu Médici said, "I feel good every evening when I turn on the TV to watch ''Jornal Nacional''. While the news report of strikes, protests, attacks and conflicts in various parts of the world, Brazil marches in peace, towards development. It is as if I took a tranquilizer after a day's work". In 2012, a former deputy of the Department of Political and Social Order (DOPS) noted the proximity between the military regime and Rede Globo.

In 2013, Grupo Globo publicly acknowledged their role in politics and apologized to the Brazilian people for supporting the military dictatorship established in Brazil after the 1964 coup. The apology was published in an editorial in ''O Globo'' and was read by news anchor William Bonner on ''Jornal Nacional'''s evening TV news. The editorial states: "In the light of history, however, there is no reason not to acknowledge, today, explicitly, that the support for the 1964 coup was a mistake, as well as other wrong editorial decisions in the period elapsed since that original mistake. Democracy is an unconditional value. And when in risk, it can only be saved by itself."

Diretas Já protest

On 25 January 1984, the Rede Globo network aired the first large rally of the Diretas Já movement in the Praça da Sé public square of São Paulo. Rede Globo's ''Jornal Nacional'' program had planned a segment on the protests, lasting two minutes and seventeen seconds. However, there was a misunderstanding during the transition to the ''Jornal Nacional''. 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 broadcaster received accusations that the purported technical blunder was intentional manipulation of the facts."Globo censurou Diretas-Já, diz Boni"
''Folha de S.Paulo''. 31 December 2005. Page accessed on 16 November 2013. José Bonifácio de Oliveira Sobrinho, known as Boni, the former Vice President of Grupo Globo, confirmed during an interview with journalist Roberto D'Ávila in 2005 that Roberto Marinho was the one who suppressed the coverage of the first large rally of the Diretas Já movement. According to Boni, "Mr. Roberto did not want mention of Diretas Já" and Marinho decided that the event in Praça da Sé would be reported, "without any participation of any of the dissenters". What would have occurred, according to him, was "double censorship" by the government regime and broadcaster. The official claim by Rede Globo, mentioned in the book ''Jornal Nacional - A Notícia Faz História'', is that the broadcaster did not suppress news of the Diretas Já rally and the rumor that the broadcaster announced the event as part of the commemorations of the city's anniversary is false.

Proconsult scheme

Rede Globo is alleged to have been complicit in the so-called Proconsult scheme in 1982, an attempt at election fraud in the gubernatorial race of the state of Rio de Janeiro. 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.Fernandes, Hélio
"No caso Proconsult, via Embratel, Armando Nogueira tentou convencer Brizola: “Eu estava em São Paulo, não tive nada a ver com isso”"
''Tribuna da Imprensa''. 2 April 2010. Page accessed on 16 November 2013. The company Proconsult, contracted by the Brazilian elections commission to tally the votes, had built a computerized system to count the ballots. However, their results did not match an independent exit poll conducted by newspaper ''Jornal do Brasil'' under the supervision of journalist Paulo Henrique Amorim. ''O Globo'' had published an editorial in favor of candidate Moreira Franco on the eve of the election day,''CASO PROCONSULT: A história da notícia.'' OBSERVATÓRIO DA IMPRENSA,
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span> - Ano 14 - nº 343 - 19/1/2010, originally published 22 August 2005. and stuck to the count numbers coming from Proconsult.

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. Vidal noticed that something was not right during the counting process, and proceeded to contact Brizola's lawyer Arnaldo Campana. Brizola, having been silenced and shut out by Grupo Globo's media outlets, gave an interview to foreign news correspondents explaining the situation that had occurred. The fraud was exposed and the journalists from Rede Globo were harassed in the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Rede Globo, in turn, argued that it "never hired Proconsult" and its results were based on numbers from ''O Globo,'' who were claimed to be responsible for conducting an aggregate vote count from electoral maps.

Takeover of NEC Brazil

Under the military government
NEC Brazil
a subsidiary of the Japanese NEC Corporation, was forced to nationalize its corporate stock. Because of this, NEC Brazil ceded shareholder control of the company to Brazilian investment banker Mário Garnero's private equity group Brasilinvest.
Before military rule, during Brazil's re-democratization period, NEC Brazil had become the major supplier of telecommunications equipment to the Brazilian government. On March 18, 1985, the Central Bank of Brazil, through a decree by the then Minister of Finance, Francisco Dornelles, initiated the liquidation of Garnero's group, that was accused of lack of liquidity and embezzlement of funds to shell companies abroad. Garnero filed for preventive concordat of all Brasilinvest companies. The government would not accept the contracting of companies controlled by a concordatary, which led the then Minister of Communications Antônio Carlos Magalhães to suspend government contracts with the company on April 29, 1986. Due to the crisis of the Brazilian group, the NEC Corporation in Japan re-purchased part of the shares of NEC Brazil. In December 1986, 51% of the shares were sold to Grupo Globo, while Garnero got 25% of the capital in preferred shares, and NEC got 58% of the total shares (being 42% preferred shares and 16% common shares). After the shareholder changes, ACM reinstated the contracts with the company, as well as initiating new ones.

On November 10, 1986, Rede Globo made official the non-renewal of its affiliation contract with TV Aratu, its then affiliate since 1969, determining that the station cease broadcasting its programming on January 20, 1987, after the end of the extension of the expiry time of the contract. The network had already expressed to TV Aratu its intention not to renew the affiliation contract on February 24 of that year, due to the dissatisfaction existing since 1984 on the part of Globo regarding technical and commercial problems of the then Bahia affiliate. TV Bahia, owned by Magalhães' son, ACM Júnior, and son-in-law, César Mata Pires, was originally an affiliate of Rede Manchete, a competitor network of Globo owned by Adolpho Bloch, and was chosen to replace TV Aratu. ACM's opponents, however, raised suspicions that the then minister had benefited Globo with the aim of transforming his family's station into an affiliate of the network. 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. A court battle was started by the owners of TV Aratu against Globo and TV Bahia in January 15, when Judge Luiz Fux, of the 9th Civil Court of Rio de Janeiro, give to TV Aratu an injunction preventing TV Bahia from retransmitting Globo's programming.

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. 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". After several court decisions, the battle ended on July 6, when the court ruled in Globo's favor, finally allowing TV Bahia to be the network's exclusive affiliate in Bahia.

The non-renewal of the affiliation contract with Globo resulted in an 80% drop in TV Aratu's ratings. The former Globo-affiliated station continued to appeal the decision until April 1996, when judicial remedies have been exhausted, and the process ratifyed Globo's legal right to transfer its programming to TV Bahia. TV Aratu, which at the time was operated under a lease agreement by CNT, had its building auctioned for refusing to pay the procedural fees.

Suspicions regarding the NEC-Globo deal took the national stage on June 9, 1992, when a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry was established to investigate the case, requested by congressman Paulo Ramos ( PDT) in May 1987. The charges against ACM were rejected and removed from the text of the report, which was approved unanimously on November 17. Mussa Demes ( PFL), president of the commission, affirmed that "if Governor Antônio Carlos had acted differently, he would have irremediably compromised the country's telecommunications system and could be answering today for omission", considering, as did the majority of the commission members, that the then-minister had suspended the contracts with NEC in order to prevent Garnero from using these resources to reverse the Central Bank's intervention in Brasilinvest.

The commission concluded that there was no irregularity in the transaction, accusing Mario Garnero of lying in front of the commission when he said he had lost money in the sale and that businessmen in the telecommunications area had suffered pressure not to negotiate NEC Brazil. At the time of the transaction, he had received new shares of the company, cancellation of debts, payment of preventive concordat of NEC and an additional 6 million. In addition, the businessmen cited by him sent a letter to the commission denying the alleged pressures exerted by people linked to Globo.

In 1999, with the break-up and privatization of the state-owned telephone monopoly Telebrás, Grupo Globo sold their shares in NEC Brazil.
The European and American phone operators who acquired shares of the broken-up monopoly chose to stay with their existing western partners for their technological needs, and thus NEC Brazil's market share had reduced.

1989 elections and impeachment

Rede Globo is accused of helping to elect presidential candidate Fernando Collor de Mello, owner of Rede Globo affiliate TV Gazeta in the state of Alagoas, in the 1989 presidential election by manipulating segments of televised and pre-recorded final debate between Collor and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the left-wing candidate from the Workers' Party.Goulart, Alexander
"A mais polêmica edição do Jornal Nacional"
. ''Observatório da Imprensa''. 19 February 2008. Page accessed on 16 November 2013. Before the debate, in the second round of voting (runoff), the polls showed a technical tie between the two candidates, so the televised confrontation would be a decisive factor in the race. Lula lost the election due to the debate, which his party acknowledged.

Rede Globo had initially sought an exemption from the law mandating full coverage of the elections but decided against it just when the technical tie was pronounced. Two TV news reports were aired on 15 December 1989 about the last debate, on the eve of the runoff vote. One was shown on ''Jornal Hoje'' and the other on ''Jornal Nacional'', the latter being more controversial as it is thought to have been biased towards Collor by showing his best debate moments along with Lula's worst moments. The Workers' Party filed a lawsuit against Rede Globo in the Supreme Court of Brazil. The plaintiff wanted new excerpts from the debate to be aired by invoking the Right of Reply article from the Brazilian Constitution, but the request was ultimately denied by the court.

Rede Globo denied that it was a deliberate act of manipulation while admitting that the segment was not balanced. According to Grupo Globo's former Vice President José Bonifácio de Oliveira Sobrinho, the central news bureau of the company made a report biased to Collor, not following the company's directive for the coverage to be impartial. Previously, Roberto Marinho said that Boni did not understand the election and that the ''Jornal Nacional'' had summarized the debate correctly, and claimed that Collor had done better in the actual debate. In 2009, 20 years after the election day, Collor admitted that he was favored by Rede Globo in the contest.

Large parts of the Brazilian media had openly supported Collor's presidential campaign. However, according to historian Gilberto Maringoni, due to Collor's party's inability to maintain a majority in congress and confrontations with a vocal faction of the country's corporate interests, Collor was the cause of the eventual change in tone in the national press. Brazil's economic crisis due to the return of hyperinflation, the confiscation of Brazilians' bank savings, and the intense investigative journalism of the press precipitated the grassroots social protests that culminated with Collor's impeachment.

Leonel Brizola's right of reply

In March 1994, ''Jornal Nacional'' aired the right of reply obtained by Leonel Brizola, then-governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, after a two-year legal battle. Brizola had gone to court against Grupo Globo in 1992, after it was revealed that ''O Globo'' intended to publish an editorial titled "Understanding Brizola's Rage" the next day, 6 February of that year. Grupo Globo, who wanted to block Brizola from broadcasting Rio's carnival parade by Rede Manchete, used the newspaper's editorial board to accuse Brizola of suffering from "declining mental health" and of "management ineptitude".

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". Brizola stated that he was "made out to be some senile person". He argued, "Now, I am 70 years-old, 16 less than my slanderer, Roberto Marinho, who is 86 years old. If this is your notion of men of a certain age, then apply it to yourself".

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. It stood for a shorthand for an action multiplier and for the increase of denunciations from the newspapers and journalists that followed".

2006 elections

Rede Globo has been heavily criticized for its coverage of the general elections of 2006. The network is alleged to have been biased against the re-election campaign of then-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva"Demitido, repórter acusa TV Globo de manipulação na cobertura eleitoral"
UOL. 20 December 2006. Page accessed on 16 November 2013. by exaggerating the exposure of negative facts surrounding his Workers' Party. Luiz Carlos Azenha, the reporter assigned to cover the competing campaign of presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin, stated that coverage of the Workers' Party was deliberately biased. According to Azenha, "it was determined from Rio de Janeiro that the economic reports should be dismissed because they could supposedly benefit Lula's re-election". Azenha confirmed that one of his own stories, which was potentially damaging for José Serra, the gubernatorial candidate for São Paulo state, was censored by Rede Globo. The criticism over the election coverage led the network to internally initiate a failed attempt at a petition supporting its editorial stance.

The most condemned event by critics occurred on the eve of the first round of voting (the primary). Rede Globo had heavily highlighted the images of the cash confiscated in the Dossiêgate scandal. It is currently known that the deputy of the Brazil federal police who supervised the operation had invited four journalists from Rede Globo for a private meeting and passed the CDs containing the photos to them. The audio of the meeting was completely recorded on tape and the deputy could be heard asking for the images to be shown in the ''Jornal Nacional'' TV news program for the same day, 29September 2006. Rede Globo showed the images in its network programming the same night, but its news program did not cover the tragedy of the Gol Flight 1907 crash in which 154 people died. Thus, while news of the plane crash was being picked up around the world, the Rede Globo live news team was dedicated only to the spread of the political scandal.

Rede Globo later stated that "it was impossible to announce the news f the crashduring the broadcast of the news program, since they had no concrete information about the accident".

A few weeks after the end of the elections, Rodrigo Vianna, a reporter leaving Rede Globo, released an open letter criticizing several of the network's positions during the elections period, giving his view of the internal operations. 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. According to Vianna, some journalists questioned the editorial actions of Rede Globo but did not receive convincing explanations from their superiors. Soon after the elections, Vianna was moved from political reporting and dispatched to work on local newspapers. The network's political commentator Franklin Martins, who would later become the Press Secretary for then-president Lula, was also dismissed that year. Vianna said, "From ''Bom Dia Brasil'' to ''Jornal da Globo'', we have a parade of people who are all on the same side".

2010 elections

Anniversary jingle

On 18 April 2010, Rede Globo launched a new marketing campaign celebrating its 45-year anniversary in the newsmagazine TV show ''Fantástico''. The date of Rede Globo's anniversary was 26 April. In the commercials, the network's logo appeared next to the number 45, and next to it, soap opera actors recited the jingle "we all want more". At one point in the commercial, the actors recited, "We all want more. Education, health, and, of course, love and peace. Brazil? Much more". According to André Luís Vargas Ilário, congressman from Paraná state at the time and press secretary for the Workers' Party, the jingle had a secretly embedded propaganda message favorable to José Serra, the presidential candidate for the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). The embedded message had "45", the registration number of the PSDB with the Superior Electoral Court. The jingle phrasing "we all want more", according to Workers' Party critics, was a reference to the Serra campaign slogan "Brazil can be more".

Rede Globo pulled the TV spot off the air on the first day of the 45-year company anniversary campaign. The network stated that the ad was created in November 2009, when "candidate's campaigns did not exist, let alone slogans, but Rede Globo will not give excuses for accusations of bias and it is suspending the ad". Columnist Luís Nassif, however, challenged the network's justification, claiming that the commercial spot was shot on 14 April, three days after Serra launched his campaign. Nassif pointed to the news release on Rede Globo's website as evidence.

José Serra attack

During the second round (runoff) campaign, Rede Globo reported that José Serra was assaulted with a roll of duct tape by Workers' Party militants during a campaign stop in Rio de Janeiro, fell ill, and then headed to a hospital where he was examined. He had canceled all remaining appointments for the day by doctor's orders. 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, putting his hand on his head to complain about the "blow". Serra then had a CT scan done, but no injuries were found. 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").

On 21 October 2010, the ''Folha de S.Paulo'' newspaper published a report revealing that Serra was hit by a roll of duct tape after the paper ball. The same day, ''Jornal Nacional'' aired a complete report on the incident. On 22 October, newspapers ''Folha de S.Paulo'' and ''O Estado de S. Paulo'', both of which are independent of Grupo Globo, confirmed that Serra was hit in two separate occasions: first by a paper ball, and then by a roll of duct tape. SBT confirmed in its TV news program ''SBT Brasil'' that the images of the paper ball preceded the scene with the roll of duct tape. 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.
SBT network, in turn, responded that "the ''SBT Brasil'' episode aired the day the incident, Thursday the 20th, showed only the footage captured by our cameras, which had the scene with the paper ball. Until that moment we had no knowledge of the existence of the other video captured by a ''Folha de S.Paulo'' journalist, using a cell phone, showing the later event, in which the roll of duct tape reaches the head of candidate Serra.
Upon learning this, SBT proceeded to broadcast it on the same day in the midnight newscast. 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."

2012 elections

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. In October 2012, on the eve of the second round of voting (runoff) for the municipal elections, the ''Jornal Nacional'' (part of Grupo Globo) dedicated 18 minutes of its 32-minute show to the trial. The show was aired immediately following the televised ''free electoral program'' (''propaganda eleitoral gratuita'', or free political advertising) that, in São Paulo, ended with the spot for mayoral candidate Fernando Haddad from the Workers' Party. The news of the Mensalão scandal was always shown after the end of the ''free electoral program'' during the entire second-round campaign period.

2013 protests

During a series of grassroots protests that took place in many cities across Brazil in 2013, demonstrations occurred in front of the Rede Globo's affiliate stations throughout the country. The network's main office in São Paulo had manure thrown at the front of the building and had its walls were defaced.
In protests at the Rede Globo headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, demonstrators clashed with the police.

Rede Globo was targeted for protests through online social networks and community organizations. On 19 June, during ''Jornal Nacional'' TV news, presenter Patrícia Poeta read an editorial written by Rede Globo itself, speaking of the acts against the network. The next day, the network aired scenes of demonstrations across the country.
The broadcast of a soccer match of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup had been scheduled for the same day, but it was canceled because the network prioritized the coverage of the protests; two soap operas did not air that day either: ''Flor do Caribe'' and ''Sangue Bom''.
Because of this, the network saw a drop in ratings, but its gesture was well-received on the internet. The station has also been accused of focusing exclusively on acts of vandalism in its coverage of the protests.

2014 elections

On 8 August 2014, an article published in ''O Globo'' stated that a device connected to the internet through the wireless network of the Palácio do Planalto

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