One of the more rewarding things about showing Americans what the rest of the world thinks about our nation, is to introduce people to newspapers that they would never ordinarily be able to read. For example, how many Americans have ever read a newspaper from the civil-war stricken Portuguese-speaking country of Angola?
This article by Altino Matos of the Jornal de Angola has an interesting take on the election of Barack Obama. While it suggests that the ‘American Media Machine’ chose Obama to alter our global image – it doesn’t seem to think there’s anything wrong with that.
“The American communication system, one of the largest in existence, was quick to realize that it had to do something substantial and consistent to save the United States, considering the erosion of its image, which began primarily with wars in Afghanistan Iraq and the Middle East.
“The strategy for recovery had to come from the Democrats, but it couldn’t be based solely on words. It was essential to find a face that could incorporate these words and breathe life into a comprehensive program. In this way, the technocrats found in Barack Obama a man of the multitudes.”
By Altino Matos
Translated By Brandi Miller
November 8, 2008
Jornal de Angola – Original Article (Portuguese)
Barack Obama is to America what Vladimir Putin is to Russia. In the same category, one could place Hugo Chaves of Venezuela, Lula da Silva from Brazil and Nikolas Sarkozy from France. They all similarly follow the maxim: signs command and guide life.
The fundamentals of their techniques for political interactivity and communication make it easy enough to measure the performance of each. From their posture, their way of dress, their ideologies, their vision and their intelligence, it’s possible to read into the character of each.
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