TV, not Facebook or Twitter, is going to revolutionize the world.

*Television: favela media.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/19/revolution_in_a_box?page=0,1

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"Since the 1970s, Brazil's Rede Globo network has been providing a steady diet of locally produced soaps, some of which are watched by as many as 80 million people. The programs are no more tales of everyday life in Brazil than Desperate Housewives is an accurate representation of a typical U.S. suburb. In a country where divorce was only legalized in 1977, nearly a fifth of the main...

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