{"id":3194,"date":"2009-08-13T03:33:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T07:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2009-08-13T03:33:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T07:33:58","slug":"oh-like-we-didnt-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/08\/13\/oh-like-we-didnt-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Like We Didn&#8217;t See . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/americas\/08\/12\/brazil.tv.host\/index.html\">this coming<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBrazilian authorities say drug dealers and other hoodlums were dying to get on Wallace Souza&#8217;s TV program. Literally.<br \/>\n Souza, a state legislator and former host of a police TV show called &#8220;Canal Livre,&#8221; also was a drug trafficker, officials say. And to get rid of the competition &#8212; and drive up ratings &#8212; he would order that criminal rivals be killed and then would have his camera crews arrive first on the scene, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In truth, they went as far as creating acts,&#8221; said Thomas Augusto Vasconcelos, intelligence secretary for Amazonas state. &#8220;It&#8217;s been determined that the crimes were committed in order to generate news for the program.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the natural end of all that reality television so many people lap up.  Don&#8217;t feed the beast.<\/p>\n<p>(I also take this as an opportunity to recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/reviews\/2007\/04\/brasyl_by_ian_m.shtml\">Ian MacDonald&#8217;s Brasyl<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this coming: Brazilian authorities say drug dealers and other hoodlums were dying to get on Wallace Souza&#8217;s TV program. Literally. Souza, a state legislator and former host of a police TV show called &#8220;Canal Livre,&#8221; also was a drug trafficker, officials say. And to get rid of the competition &#8212; and drive up ratings &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}