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Rohter Adrift with Lifesaver Jacket

Submitted May 20, 2004 - 6:47 pm by Al Giordano
Heh.

You can see the photo here.

(Save that one, Lord High Webmahster, for future use!)

It's from the popular national business magazine Isto é Dinheiro ("This Is Money") of Brazil.

It also quotes me!

(When U.S. correspondents lie about your country... Who ya gonna call!)

Rohter escreveu um artigo de 1.319 palavras. Havia duas fontes centrais a sustentá-las. Brizola e o cronista de uma revista de quem não se espera mais que comentários supostamente polêmicos. Atribuir importância a essa dupla seria o mesmo que tomar como verdade, sem verificação, a denúncia feita à DINHEIRO pelo americano Alberto Giordano – criador de um jornal especializado em vigiar a imprensa, o Narco News –, de que Rohter é fantoche de Roger Noriega, subsecretário para Assuntos Latino-americanos
de Bush. “Ele não escreve nada a respeito da América Latina antes de consultar Noriega”. Seria leviano dar a essa informação tom de verdade absoluta.

Which, translated, says...

Rohter wrote a 1,319 word article. He had two key sources to back it up: Brizola and a columnist from a magazine of whom no one expects more than supposedly polemic commentaries. To give importance to this duo would be more or less accepting it as truth, without verifying it, according to the accusation made to DINHEIRO magazine by the American Alberto Giordano - creator of a journal that specializes in watchdogging the press, Narco News - that Rohter is the puppet of Roger Noriega, subsecretary for Latin American Affairs for Bush. "He doesn't write anything about Latin America without first consulting Noriega." It would be frivolous to repeat his report as absolute truth.

(Actually, the parts not attributed to me were more or less direct quotes from me, and the part attributed to me changed my use of the past tense to the present, but, what the heck, in general, the DINHEIRO article is far more accurate than anything Rohter has published for years!)

Don't miss clicking the link to the photo of Rohter with his lifesaver!

Tudo Legal!

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