Source: GGN.

Background:

• The Fluoridation of Sambodian Education

All that is left to Globo is crude aggression, and the abuse of its power to sue journalists who dare to speak out against this strategy. –Luis Nassif

Brazilian alt.journalist Luis Nassif — recently convicted in a classic SLAPPP suit of slandering the head of news and sports of the Globo group — remains active while awaiting the results of his appeal.

Today, he denounces a McCarthyist campaign launched recently by Globo against a rival textbook publisher that hearkens back to a similar case in 2007.

In the intervening years, the major media groups have looked with covetous eyes on the education and academic publishing sector, a market that has grown under the policies of inclusion of the federal government, and a very competitive market at that: private schools and universities visibly spend substantial sums on advertising.

Nassif:

The…