Alexandre Garcia resigned from Globo after 30 years working in the station's journalism. Thell de Castro of the TV News website reports that last Friday (29), Alexandre Garcia left friendly at Globo after more than 30 years of career in the broadcaster. But the release of his previous work in Manchete, who was one of the guarantors of the concession, was much more troubled, with the right to prohibit access to the air and even in the television network building extinguished
With much prestige among politicians, the journalist had been spokesman for the government of João Figueiredo (1918-1999) between 1979 and 1980, but had left the post after a controversial interview, where he called himself "the stallion Plbadto" and posed for
In the 1980s, he was director of Manchete in Brasília (DF) and was responsible for one of the largest audiences in the chain at this time: the photo of the week's column, presented in the Sunday Program.
At the carnival of 1988, the Manchete led a war with Globo and found himself without the rights of retransmission of parades of samba schools of Rio de Janeiro. About me (RJ).
However, as pointed out by Jornal do Brasil on February 26 of that year, "the bads and bad were mounted profusely, gaining some points to Ibope, but causing the Lent anger of the Department of Communications, which threatens to finalize it. "
The scenes presented at the carnival did not disappoint the government. According to the case, Garcia considered the work of the company as "a bajaria". He was very upset when, to make up for the inconvenience caused, the title required him to record a message from then president, Jose Sarney, for the flood relief campaign in Rio.
"It is hypocrisy and demagoguery, they will campaign to empty the bar and avoid the carnival punishment." I do not go into that.
Garcia later received a Manchete's owner, Adolpho Bloch (1908-1995), who promised to never broadcast Carnival again. "I knew I would hear promises identical to those I had heard in 1981, while I was the guarantor of a promise of an Oscar to President Figueiredo, "he told Jornal do Brasil (JB).
" The president had told him that He would not give the subsidy to Manchete because they would show naked woman. He said that he was going to do a serious television and guaranteed it to Figueiredo. Now I watch television doing this barbarism. My head broke. "
He can not even say goodbye, according to JB.You have been prevented from entering the newspaper Manchete." They said that they had no confidence in what I Would say, "said the reporter.And the resignation was consumed.The porter at the station was ordered not to let Alexander enter the building without notifying him in advance," says the report. .
A few days later, he already had a new home: Globo. He spoke on the phone with Roberto Marinho (1904-2003) and was invited to bring his column to the cbad.