EBC director says talking about covid is boring and asks to reduce coverage
The director of EBC (Ema de Comunicação-Brasil), Glen Lopes a Valente, said last week that "it's boring" to talk daily about the COVID-19 pandemic and that "it's not an exciting business" to the point of being broadcast all over the world. time. In one of his speeches, Glen even compared the COVID-19 pandemic to the H1N1 outbreak.
A EBC, the company responsible for TV Brasil, Agência Brasil and public radios, came to neglect the coverage of COVID-19 last year. According to Folha de S. Paulo, company employees said that "decontextualized data" was used and there was no "monitoring of the evolution of the disease in Brazil". It was said that TV Brasil did not recognize, for example, the lack of oxygen in Manaus.
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