Source: Luis Nassif

Partial translation (draft quality): C. Brayton

“Suite” is a term used [in Brazil] to designate a story that is echoed and recycled numerous times by news organizations with an eye to saturating coverage of a given topic.

Call it a local equivalent of a media blitz based on moral panic.

On Sunday, [for example] the daily Estado de S. Paulo led with a panic-inducing headline predicting the failure of the World Cup.

Without presenting any evidence, the story referred to a supposed accord between the Black Blocs and the PCC during the Cup.

A casual glance through the story, however, shows that its sources included mere boasting by a source identifying himself as a Black Bloc member, who reported supposed contacts with Black Blockers and the drug industry.

The source supposedly overheard a statement of intent by a PCC member (though not a leader of that group). The same was true of an interview with a…