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Marielle Franco (By Mídia NINJA [CC BY-SA 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)
Basically this is a blog where Carolina de Assis (the writer) provides significant evidence which suggests that journalists struggle to depict the truth in news to the public. Furthermore, these “employees” are required to publish a “certain standpoint” or stand losing their job. Journalists from Brazilian public media protest against restriction of coverage of Marielle Franco’s murder, is an example of a title that uses metacommentary to describe the blog’s main points very clearly. The story goes like this, “newsroom manager Roberto Cordeiro of Agência Brasil -- a national public news agency that is part of EBC along with Rádio Nacional and TV Brasil -- sent an email to the team requesting "to reduce material about the death of councilor Marielle Franco." According to him, "these tributes of the PSol [party of the councilwoman] are meant to take advantage of the moment. Or other repercussions of that kind. We should focus on the investigations and what the authorities say”(Assis, March 2018, pg 1). For further explanation, the newsroom manager decides to tell all the employees of Agência Brasil that they will not be able to exercise their right to free speech when it comes to news coverage. In addition to this this same manager stresses that the journalists report this news by looking at one angle and ignoring all other sides of the story (which may include truth). Turning a blind eye to what actually happened and not including everything that occurred in the news violates the code of ethics of journalists, and the future of journalism as well. [ 1 image, 1 link, 1 quotation, and 258 words]
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