Globo Bobo

Rede Globo vs. Internet (Crash Tester): The Web site poll picture above, from Globo.com, asks Lusophone Web site visitors, “Do you you use the Internet?”

75.10% of Web site visitors had the presence of mind and the malicious wit to answer “no.”

Ergo, 75 percent of visitors to Globo.com visit without using the Internet. By baixando o santo, one supposes.  Or astral projection.

A Globo é uma empresa de se admirar: maior audiência de televisão brasileira, manipulação de opinião pública, pequenas fortunas à cada votação do Big Brother Brasil 7, etc. Aparentemente, o legado de Roberto Marinho não foi coisa pouca e a Rede Globo de Televisão continua bem, obrigada, fazendo a alegria da familia brasileira.

Globo is a company to marvel at: The largest audience in Brazilian television, manipulation of public opinion, makes small fortunes on every episode of Big Brother Brazil, and so on. Apparently the legacy of Roberto Marinho was no small thing and the Globo TV Network is doing fine, thank you very much, still bringing joy into Brazilian homes.  

Mas na internet é uma mancada atrás da outra. Foi até moderninho quando lançaram o blog dos Big Brothers, o G1 é um portal bem bacana… só que o site Globo Online acaba com qualquer admiração que se possa ter pela Rede Globo na rede. A primeira ação maravilhosa no site é o bloqueio do uso do Ctrl C, para que as notícias sejam exclusivas do site.

On the Internet, however, it has been one stumble after another. It was quite modern of them to launch a Big Brother blog, and G1 is a groovy news portal, sure. But the Globo Online Web site itself makes you lose any respect you might have had for the Globo Network’s approach to the network. The first genius move was blocking the use of Ctrl-C, so that the news will be exclusively carried on the site.

All you need to do to get around this silly feature is view the pages source code — Ctrl-U in Firefox — and cut and paste from there.  –Ed.

Esta ação também pode ser chamada de javascript safado que alguém usou para se promover dentro da empresa e ninguém viu que era uma atitude antipática, além de furada, já que alguns meios que requerem conhecimentos mínimos (exibir o código fonte, desabilitar o javascript ou procurar no google) acabam com as defesas da exclusividade das noticias do portal.

It could be that this is just some slimy bit of Javascript that someone at Globo cooked up just to show off to the bosses and no one noticed that it expressed a nasty, not to mention useless, attitude, since there are easy ways (view the source code, disable Javascript or search on Google)  to get around the defenses mounted to preserve the portal’s exclusivity.

You can also rather easily suck down their “protected” video content, I note. You can also just retype the copy as you read it.

Remember when you had to do that all the time, when college term papers were written on typewriters?–Ed.

Most longwinded dialogue box ever.

Dear user: It is not possible to copy this content. If it interests you, you can send [a link to] any article on Globo Online by e-mail as many times as you like: Just click the link beside the article. For any other type of reproduction or transmission, you need previous authorization. If that is the case, contact us. Thank you.

Contact you where?

Absolutely no such thing as fair use. No digital version of using the news to line bird cages or cut out letters from to make ransom notes.

But what if I want to keep clippings to prove that Globo published what they published, even after they take it down and pretend that they never published such a thing?

Because one occasionally finds them doing that, I’m afraid.

You go to review a clip that has just gone out on the air, like the infamous interview with Edmilson Bruno that aired at 11:30 at night, and it is “no longer available.”

Or like all the references on its Web site to TV Globo reporter Jose Messias Xavier that have been expunged, as I observe, for example.

The man is under indictment for selling confidential information  from law enforcement, gleaned from confidential sources while on the job for Globo, to the Rio de Janeiro gambling mafia.

And his boss still has his job. Howell Raines had to hit the road over Jayson Blair and Ali Kamel is writing books.

Go figure.