Beyond Citizen Kane is a 1993 British documentary film produced by John Ellis and Simon Hartog for Channel 4. It details the dominance of the Rede Globo media group in Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane of the Orson Welles film Citizen Kane. Globo, th...
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Beyond Citizen Kane is a 1993 British documentary film produced by John Ellis and Simon Hartog for Channel 4. It details the dominance of the Rede Globo media group in Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane of the Orson Welles film Citizen Kane. Globo, the documentary argues, engaged in the same Kane wholesale manipulation of news to influence public opinion.
The documentary tracks Globo's involvement with and support of the military dictatorship, its illegal partnership with the American group Time Warner (at the time Time-Life), Marinho's political maneuverings (which included airing on Jornal Nacional, the network's prime time news program, highlights of a 1989 presidential debate edited in a way as to favor Fernando Collor de Mello) and a controversial deal involving shares of NEC...
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