Wilson Ferreira: Globo tries to wash its own hands of the mess in the Waack case.
Whoever set this trap for William Waack took into account Globo's current delicate situation: after its war-like journalism in recent years gave visibility and impact to the rabid right wing (the one that sees "political correctness" as a "communist conspiracy") to exacerbate the political crisis that would culminate in impeachment, the network is now trying to clean its hands of the mud it strategically stirred up for years, points out Wilson Ferreira.
By Wilson Ferreira, in Fórum magazine.
Just as in the episode of the sexual harassment of actor José Mayer (at that time Globo made the female cast members wear a t-shirt printed with "You messed with one, you messed with all"), in the same way the broadcaster promptly dismissed William Waack after the repercussion of an old video in which the journalist made racist statements in a joking tone while waiting to go live.
In other times, episodes like these would become part of the folklore of television's behind-the-scenes history. Whoever set this trap for William Waack took into account Globo's current delicate context: after its war-like journalism in recent years gave visibility and impact to the rabid right wing (the one that sees "political correctness" as a "communist conspiracy") to exacerbate the political crisis that would culminate in impeachment, the network is now trying to clean its hands of the mud it strategically stirred up for years. It stated in a note that it is "viscerally against racism."
Globo is tautologically trying to ignore the psychological pathology it helped to incite, just as it continues to try to prove that it had nothing to do with the corruption of the military dictatorship that it helped to conceal.
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