Lana Del Rey, por Terry Richardson
Na Rússia, é o natal quem te celebra
E mais uma vez o povo está nas ruas de Moscou, na casa das dezenas de milhares, em plena véspera de natal. Diz o New York Times:
Tens of thousands of citizens converged in Moscow on Saturday for the second huge antigovernment demonstration in a month, an early victory for activists struggling to forge a burst of energy into a political force capable of challenging Vladimir V. Putin’s power.
The first such demonstration, two weeks ago, was unprecedented for Mr. Putin’s rule, and there were reasons Saturday’s turnout could have been lower — among them, winter holidays and the onset of bitter cold.
Instead, people poured all afternoon into a canyon created by vast government buildings, and the police put the crowd at 30,000, more than they reported on Dec. 10. Organizers said it was closer to 120,000. Hours later, as the protesters dispersed, they chanted, slowly: “We will come again! We will come again!”
Pra quem já dava 2011 como terminado, leia o resto da matéria lá no site do NYT.
Criolo no New York Times
Começou a segunda fase de Nó na Orelha: O reconhecimento na gringa. Deu no NYT:
At first glance, his cage-match-ready build is sturdy and lends him a hard, almost ruthless edge. But then he smiles, and his dark eyebrows and black mustache lift, accentuating his grin; he kisses everyone hello.
Isso só começou (alguém sabe se rolou vídeo do show em NY?). A apresentação de Kleber semana passada no Jóia foi só o fim de um capítulo.
A evolução da repressão
Com as mudanças nos tipos de protesto, vêm as mudanças nas formas de reprimi-los, como nos lembra o New York Times.
A expulsão do OccupyWallStreet do Zuccotti Park e o #mediablackout
Hashtag chamando atenção no Twitter: #mediablackout. Se refere à forma como os jornalistas foram tratados pela polícia de Nova York no momento da expulsão dos manifestantes do OccupyWallStreet na madrugada desta terça. Diz o Gothamist:
During our coverage of the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street protesters early this morning, a NPR reporter, a New York Times reporter, and a city councilmember were arrested. Airspace in Lower Manhattan was closed to CBS and NBC news choppers by the NYPD, a New York Post reporter was allegedly put in a “choke hold” by the police, a NBC reporter’s press pass was confiscated and a large group of reporters and protesters were hit with pepper spray. According to the eviction notice, the park was merely “cleaned and restored for its intended use.” If this is the case, why were so few people permitted to view it?
“Get the fuck back! Fuck back I said!” The NYPD officer’s voice was amplified behind the plexiglass helmet as he violently shoved protesters and reporters away from the intersection of Cortland and Broadway, one block from Zuccotti Park. It was 1:20 a.m., shortly after the police cordoned off the park to prepare for the cleaning. Requests to gain entry or move south down Broadway to see what was happening were met with the reply, “We have to clear the sidewalk.” One protester asked, “Isn’t the sidewalk public space?” The riot shields kept moving forward. “Clear the sidewalk. Move! Now!”
O New York Times também registrou esse impedimento, além da opinião do prefeito de Nova York sobre o assunto:
As a result, much of the early video of the police operation was from the vantage point of the protesters. Videos that were live-streamed on the Web and uploaded to YouTube were picked up by television networks and broadcast on Tuesday morning.
At a news conference after the park was cleared Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg defended the police behavior, saying that the media was kept away “to prevent a situation from getting worse and to protect members of the press.”
Aham. Claro, claro… A situação vai ficando só mais evidente, com menos meias palavras…
Rafinha Bastos e a Tropicália
In a way Mr. Bastos and his group are like the Brazilian musicians who more than 40 years ago mined Anglo-American pop and transformed it into the globally influential style known as Tropicalia, only this time the raw material is comedy, not music.
Aham, senta lá, New York Times.
“Obi-Wan Kenobi está morto”, diz Darth Vader
“WikiLeaks é jornalismo?”
E quando as redações começarem a virar assunto?
A pergunta surgiu no meio do debate da Campus Party que eu participei, feita pelo Gil Giardelli, e a Ana Brambilla discordou num dos pontos em que eu e o Forastieri concordamos (o Vinícius comenta o debate melhor do que eu, além de linkar os vídeos). Pra mim, WikiLeaks é jornalismo, ponto.
Se é bom ou mau jornalismo, isso é outra história – mas agora que temos um player jogando no ventilador notícias que não vêm via release de assessoria de imprensa nem com post-it grudado escrito “leia com atenção”. Sim, há a possibilidade de haver interesses escusos e de que seu criador estaria guiando a mídia tradicional de acordo com a sua agenda, mas o não dá para fugir que o site de Julian Assange propõe ao jornalismo tradicional o mesmo enigma digital que a indústria fonográfica enfrentou com o Napster, que pairou com o YouTube sobre o cinema e a TV, que o mercado editorial começa a ter de lidar com o Kindle. São os papéis do Pentágono e Watergate numa mesma tacada, sem intermediários e com um posterboy ególatra o suficiente pra se deixar virar ícone (pessoalmente, não grilo com isso, mas há quem se incomode).
E, na longa véspera de uma revelação que o site promete desde o ano passado sobre um grande banco americano, começam a sair as primeiras reações da mídia tradicional ao contar como foi lidar com Assange. Quem começou foi Bill Keller, editor-chefe do New York Times, que escreveu um texto gigantesco para a capa de sua revista dominical, lembrando a tradição de seu jornal, acusando Assange de manipulador, dizendo que WikiLeaks não é jornalismo e defendendo a imparcialidade sobre a notícia. Chama o jornal inglês Guardian, um dos veículos escolhidos por Julian para expor seus segredos de “abertamente de esquerda” e desqualifica Assange como excêntrico:
“He was alert but dishevelled, like a bag lady walking in off the street, wearing a dingy, light-coloured sport coat and cargo pants, dirty white shirt, beat-up sneakers and filthy white socks that collapsed around his ankles (…). He smelled as if he hadn’t bathed for days.”
O Guardian, por sua vez, veio com sua versão dos fatos, peitando principalmente o fato do WikiLeaks mudar a paisagem do jornalismo em tempos digitais, citando a Hillary, e do site ter mirado nos EUA. Escreve seu editor-chefe Alan Rusbridger:
Unnoticed by most of the world, Julian Assange was developing into a most interesting and unusual pioneer in using digital technologies to challenge corrupt and authoritarian states. It’s doubtful whether his name would have meant anything to Hillary Clinton at the time – or even in January 2010 when, as secretary of state, she made a rather good speech about the potential of what she termed “a new nervous system for the planet“.
She described a vision of semi-underground digital publishing – “the samizdat of our day” that was beginning to champion transparency and challenge the autocratic, corrupt old order of the world. But she also warned that repressive governments would “target the independent thinkers who use the tools”. She had regimes like Iran in mind.
Her words about the brave samizdat publishing future could well have applied to the rather strange, unworldly Australian hacker quietly working out methods of publishing the world’s secrets in ways which were beyond any technological or legal attack.
Little can Clinton have imagined, as she made this much praised speech, that within a year she would be back making another statement about digital whistleblowers – this time roundly attacking people who used electronic media to champion transparency. It was, she told a hastily arranged state department press conference in November 2010, “not just an attack on America’s foreign policy interests. It is an attack on the international community.” In the intervening 11 months Assange had gone viral. He had just helped to orchestrate the biggest leak in the history of the world – only this time the embarrassment was not to a poor east African nation, but to the most powerful country on earth.
O debate segue em aberto, mas eis um novo efeito colateral: sobre o jornalismo. Cada vez mais os bastidores do jornalismo se tornarão notícia e interesse geral e um filme sobre WikiLeaks (cada vez mais palpável) poria a público como as coisas realmente funcionam nas redações como o filme sobre o Facebook começou a expor as entranhas do Vale do Silício. Mas antes de entrarmos na paranóia sobre quem detém o monopólio da notícia, o que é exclusividade no século 21 e a velha discussão entre transparência e segurança, deixo o recado do professor Timothy Garton Ash, que foi ao Fórum Econômico de Davos justamente pra falar sobre WikiLeaks:
“Every organization should think very hard about what it is you really need to protect. You’re probably protecting a whole lot you don’t need to. And then do everything you can to protect that smaller amount”
Ou seja, quem tem, tem medo. Se não tem, é bom ter. Como digo: paranóia é precaução.
