tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18911698.post116511992485698409..comments2024-01-05T18:38:46.399-05:00Comments on the salty coast: holidays, a vote, and a confessionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18911698.post-1174998765931744442007-03-27T09:32:00.000-04:002007-03-27T09:32:00.000-04:00i'm referring to the part of your posting in which...i'm referring to the part of your posting in which you mention Sa Carneiro's death in a plane crash.<BR/>i got interested in this story, too, because it smells. thing is, we are in a country without a tradition of investigative reporting--and i say that in contradiction to your assertion at another place of your blog, that there was one after 74, which i strongly doubt. there was a lot of digging then, agreed, and i guess that's normal after a change of regimes. but the crucial thing about investigative reporting is insisting, and that's not necessarily a Portuguese feature. not then, not now. just look at how fast all of these scandals, Valentim Loureiro, Fatima Felgeiras, António Marais, Carmona, leave alone the casa pia case et al. vanish from the front pages without having come to anything. the role of Sotu Moura, the former Procurador Geral, in all these cases is highly questionable and if you ask someone how that is possible in a democratically organized country, you get a shrug. from the people as well as from the journalists. the headlines here are for selling the particular product, not for fullfilling the role of the 4th estate.<BR/><BR/>take Ferro Rodrigues (PS) who finally went to the European Court to get some sort of justice because he was falsely (and politically motivated) accused of having been one of the casa pia "clients", or, if you wish, more cynical: users. no wonder that Sa Carneiro's people go the same way. but be aware, there are much to many people still alive who might have been involved in the affair. so it will probably come to nothing again. the power clique in Portugal is a small and tightly closed group of people, which can best be read from the last President's election, in which almost all runners have had the post or had been PMs for one or more times. not one new face there--well, not counting in Francisco Louçã.bioporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14616769326389482608noreply@blogger.com