“The biggest anti-journalism phenomenon in recent years is what happened to Veja magazine. Gradually, the largest weekly Brazilian mag was turned into a lampoon with no commitment to journalism, using the lowest of the low attacks against those who crossed their path, getting involved in trade wars and accepting that their pages and sites hosted reports and columns of pure journalistic sewage”. Luis Nassif [pt] introduces an investigation on what happened to the biggest weekly magazine in Brazil.
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