Comments for Brazil Is No North Korea, But Its Press Freedom Has Been Declining at http://www.brazzilmag.com , comment 0 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.brazzilmag.com Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:26:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8213/54/#pc_8995 Since the days of Assis Chateaubriand, Paraibáno, TV Tupi, many newspapers, you aviation types will be interested to know that he tooled around in a Staggerwing, his personal Beech 17, I think it was a D17S, the Lear Jet of the 30s. The interaction between him and the government is an interesting study. But those days are over. Can the genie be put back into the bottle? The paradigm has changed so much in the past ten years that it´s doubtful. Even China, which never really let it out, is struggling to Keep It Inside. - Ric Sat, 05 May 2007 20:08:11 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8213/54/#pc_8940 "In May 1789, Louis XVI summoned to Versailles a full meeting of the 'Estate General'. The First Estate consisted of three hundred nobles. The Second Estate, three hundred clergy. The Third Estate, six hundred commoners. Some years later, after the French Revolution, Edmund Burke, looking up at the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, said, 'Yonder sits the Fourth Estate, and they are more important than them all.'" Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact,--very momentous to us in these times. Literature is our Parliament too. Printing, which comes necessarily out of Writing, I say often, is equivalent to Democracy: invent Writing, Democracy is inevitable. Writing brings Printing; brings universal everyday extempore Printing, as we see at present. Whoever can speak, speaking now to the whole nation, becomes a power, a branch of government, with inalienable weight in law-making, in all acts of authority. It matters not what rank he has, what revenues or garnitures. The requisite thing is, that he have a tongue which others will listen to; this and nothing more is requisite. The nation is governed by all that has tongue in the nation: Democracy is virtually there. - AES Wed, 02 May 2007 06:05:30 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8213/54/#pc_8939 What ever happened to the Hurricane story. One of the most important stories implicating judges of the selling of sentences. What happened to the police strike? Why doesn't the press follow up, press the issue? If there is no freedom of the press there is only freedom of Fear. - AES Wed, 02 May 2007 05:44:00 +0100