Olha quem fala: Globalised Media is 'Predatory', Says Media Boss: The head of a large media group in Latin America today accused global media companies of acting in a "predatory" way in distributing cultural content to small national and regional media organisations in the developing countries.
José Roberto Marinho, Vice-President of Rede Globo, said such predatory behavior has led many countries "to lose their identity and their economies to become enfeebled".
He said media freedom does not exist in the current climate where citizens in many developing countries have no alternative but to receive foreign cultural products and information that lack any common ground with their culture and are frequently presented in a different language than their own. This has created a tendency towards cultural uniformity, he pointed out and has caused people "to lose their identity and their countries' economies become enfeebled".
