(IPYS/IFEX) – On 4 April 2005, Carlos Augusto Setti, editor of the Senate’s Interlegis news service, was transferred to another position after he published a story on administrative corruption involving Senate employees. Setti’s removal from his position was exposed by the Journalist’s Union of Brasilia. The story, published on the Interlegis Web site, mentioned an […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 4 April 2005, Carlos Augusto Setti, editor of the Senate’s Interlegis news service, was transferred to another position after he published a story on administrative corruption involving Senate employees. Setti’s removal from his position was exposed by the Journalist’s Union of Brasilia.
The story, published on the Interlegis Web site, mentioned an investigation by public prosecutors into problems in the state’s hiring of a local information technology company. The firm and the Senate workers involved were forced to reimburse almost US$390,000.
Interlegis directors Márcio Sampaio Leão Marques and Marcos Aurélio Corrêa claimed that, unlike in the mass media, a journalist working for the government cannot “print whatever he wants.” In a press release, they argued that Setti’s decision to publish the story was “an act of interference and insubordination,” and that the information published “did not fall within the editorial criteria determined by the news service’s directors.”
