Lula's speech prompts Brazilian crowd to jeer journalists
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva repeated criticisms of the press, this time before approximately 3,000 sanitation workers in São Paulo, leading the crowd to boo the reporters covering his speech, Folha de São Paulo and O Globo report.
Lula told reporters to talk with the people around them and “publish only what they say. Don’t try to interpret it...The people don't want an intermediary.”
Lula also criticized the press last week, telling Folha that the media's role is to "inform," rather than serve as a watchdog.
Excerpts from the speech (in Portuguese):
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