the referendum goes international
Solon Brochado: Dave Kopel, on the Volokh Conspiracy, has a great (in both size and quality) post about the referendum, as does Glenn “InstaPundit” Reynolds. I think the subject might have received more attention from conservative bloggers abroad before, if it weren’t for Plamegate and Harriet Miers’ nomination for the Supreme Court.
The mainstream media is also giving the referendum some attention. While it only shows in the “more stories” part of CNN International’s site (and apparently nowhere in CNN.com), both MSNBC, BBC and Google News are giving it some prominence in international sections.
Brazilian media, so far, have restrained themselves to usual real-time coverage through online news outlets, like Terra and Folha Online. But while we wait for monday’s news, Cisco’s post shows what seems to be the MSM’s official spin on the referendum’s outcome: it wasn’t a reflection of the people’s will, as much as a result of good marketing strategies. I wonder if they would’ve said anything like that had the “yes” vote won.
To be fair, the piece I translated spoke of both sides discussing the effectiveness of the ‘no’ vote’s political marketing. But it certainly looks like that’s the way the spin doctoring will go.
Comment by Cisco — October 24, 2005 @ 1:50 pm