Video transcript
allTV - Painel Haddad (26/08/2019) - Eugênio Bucci
328 statements · 1 politicians · August 26, 2019 · 32 min
Statements by Fernando Haddad. 328 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified.
Speakers
Click any statement beside the video to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Transcript
328 statementsFull transcript of the video. Statements the analysis classified carry topic and stance.
Today with journalist and USP professor Eugênio Gutt, former president of Rádio Brasa, current columnist for Estadão, author, among other works, of O Estado de Narciso and A Forma Bruta dos Protestos, both books published by Companhia das Letras.
Good evening, Eugênio.
Desconhecido
Good evening, Fernando.
What is the big difference between working for a privately owned company... and working for a public company, serving as a journalist in both?
What's the main difference?
If there is a difference.
Desconhecido
That's an extremely complicated question, because at Rádio Brás I was a journalist, but I did not see myself as exercising the function of a journalist.
Desconhecido
I was the company's president; I was an executive.
Desconhecido
Therefore, I did not... perform the duties of an editor or a journalist in the newsrooms.
Desconhecido
We had a very complex plan developed at ENAP, which is the National School of Public Administration, and we had specific plans, missions, for each program, for each station, and we had teams and journalists and editors.
Desconhecido
charged with carrying out the journalistic functions.
Desconhecido
I not only did not get involved in those functions—I did not do editing, I did not set the agenda, I did not dictate the agenda—but I also prevented people outside those functions, including from the government, from trying to interfere with those agendas.
Desconhecido
And, in part, I was successful.
Desconhecido
As an executive or as the company's president, I learned a lot, I repeat, it was a very good period of my life.
Desconhecido
I liked it, I took pleasure in that work, it fulfilled me, I felt I was applying the knowledge I had accumulated over my life.
What do you expect from a journalist in those two positions?
When you teach and someone asks you, look, is a journalist a journalist everywhere, or does he have to take certain precautions when he is in a public company that may be different—not saying better or worse—from when he works in a private company?
Does the journalist's role, as such, from the point of view of the principles he must observe—the guidelines, the conduct—differ; does it change between the two?
Desconhecido
Is there a change between commercial newsrooms, among them, and in the government as well?
Desconhecido
This is very confusing in Brazil and I'll quickly explain why.
Desconhecido
If we are, for example, in Europe... in a company like the BBC, which is a public company, the journalist there performs a journalistic function with independence guaranteed by all the statutes and by the constitution of that organization and also by a custom that dates back to the first half of the twentieth century.
Desconhecido
It's an established culture.
Desconhecido
Almost 100 years.
Desconhecido
Yes, almost 100 years, an established culture of journalistic independence, editorial independence.
Desconhecido
In Brazil, we don't have that kind of thing.
Desconhecido
Going again abroad, if you take an example like the New York Times, or the magazine The Economist, or the BBC newsroom—the BBC newsrooms—the journalistic experience has a lot in common.
Desconhecido
Very uncommon.
Desconhecido
Very uncommon.
Desconhecido
Of course there are distinct marks, but the profession of journalist, in these cases, unfolds in one organization or another, whether it is public or private, in the pattern I'm talking about—BBC, The Economist or New York Times.
Desconhecido
it proceeds more or less along the same lines.
Desconhecido
In Brazil, we do not have a truly independent public communications company.
Desconhecido
So, they are very dependent, because they are not independent; they depend on the mood of those in power, the mood of those who hold positions in the executive.
Desconhecido
If they are more cultured, if they are more prepared, more civilized, in the best sense of the word, we have an environment more conducive to more intelligent, more critical content.
Desconhecido
If they are not, they run over, like a war tank, any principle that guides the profession of journalist.
Desconhecido
On the other hand, in the private sector, we also do not have independent newsrooms.
Desconhecido
There are very few newsrooms that we can say, in the Brazilian market, are technically independent.
Desconhecido
Technically independent.
Desconhecido
There are very few.
Desconhecido
What is 'technically independent'?
Desconhecido
They are companies that generate sufficient resources to finance an autonomous journalistic operation.
AI classification from the transcript of a public video. See the Methodology