(en) Brazil, Debating the politics of public communication by Bruno Lima Rocha (pt)

Paulo Bernardo Silva, a former union leader banking, embodies the concept that politics is 
a professional factory class traitors. Communications Minister Dilma do justice to the 
"noble" strain of ACM and H?lio Costa in defense of the interests of capital in front of 
the folder. ---- On days 05 and 06 April, the Secretariat of Communications and Social 
Inclusion (Secom) government riograndense organized the seminar "How to finance public 
communication?" On the morning of the second day, I was summoned by the National Movement 
of Community Radio Broadcasting (MNRC ) for the debate, which did an analysis of the 
situation from the communication policies of the federal government. We also discussed 
alternatives for the management of non-state public broadcasters, obviously trying to 
escape the advertising model and its inevitable complications. I shared the table with 
journalist Beto Almeida, Brazil and responsible for Telesur notorious connoisseur of 
Venezuelan law.

My analysis "reassures" media owners and executives of telecommunications companies. I 
evaluated that, depending on your Dilma and Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo, little 
or nothing is done to counter the hegemonic interests. Brazil is a country that lives by a 
Constitution and citizen incomplete regularly amputated. Chapter V, is just what the 
media, when read aloud, seems more like science fiction compared to the contents issued. 
Unlike countries such as Venezuela and Argentina, here there is no will of the Executive 
Branch to distribute the production capacities of symbolic goods in addition to market 
leaders.

Reasons abound for the claim and the bill is simple. To compose the infamous coalition 
presidentialism, Rousseff as Lula from the middle of the first term, operates with a 
majority in both legislative houses. These consist of network operators, mostly colonels 
electronics (the example of Sarney and Collor), regional partners of the largest media 
groups in the country. Thus, a new General Law of Telecommunications and Mass Media, 
taking into account digital convergence and formalizing the three complementary systems 
(private, public and state) provided for in Article 223 of the Constitution simply does 
not pass the House.

Not surprisingly, the demands MNRC three staves. A, long-term, is the establishment of a 
fund for the promotion of public media that does not seek profit. In short, a legal basis 
for allocating a share of the advertising pie of the three levels of government to these 
public broadcasters. And immediately, the fall of Minister Paulo Bernardo, shelve by the 
resolutions of the National Conference of Communication. I concluded the speech with the 
obvious. If you depend on the Plateau or Congress, none of this will happen.

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