Hi,
Hehehehe, maybe it would be more accurate to say "The show the media puts on for the common people?"
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Unfortunately, no: they do, not their best, but some effort to get the local authorities government's lies, but people forget or leet themselves be swindled by the show the politicians put on.
For instance, the PM constantly lies on several subjects, and now the media are simultaniously interviewing/filming the PM AND his assessors/other ministers, because that way they cannot deny what they said, or phone each other to aggree on a common version on the subject they've just been talking.
Almost every week there's something that was found out, and yet... as the elections are right after Summer Break, everyone will have forgotten it all.
A maire was found out with her hands on the money, was warned that she was going to be arrested by someone "up high" (same party as the Gvmnt), escaped by car to Spain, then flew to Brasil, had also brasilian nationality (that was a surprise!), and brasilians do not extradite their people... so she was on the run at Copacabana for 1,5 year, until she returned to be arrested... and released, because she was once more running for maire! When finally she was convicted, she had suspended sentence (I'm not sure that's a correct translation, you are guilty, get 2 years, but do not go in jail, unless you break the law).
She had almost an hour prime-time TV, saying the relief she had that it was over, that she had been set free and got rid of the charges... For someone who did not hear the sentence, she had been acquitted!
She was re-elected once more, and is going to run again, has more charges against her, but manages to escape them all, even when convicted. And the locals love her!
That's just an example, there are several cases more.
In the 30s-70s, people would leave to other countries because Porugal was poor, a dictatorship, and had a useless war going on.
Now, they're leaving because you have a incompetent clique running the country.
Sorry, it got a bit long, political, and personal, but there's a groing feeling that the revolution had too many flowers and too little blood...