 In a retrospective article in 2009, media observer "Observatório da Imprensa" (not part of Globo Organizations) weighed in that "Brizola's contributions to the country, in the political arena and in social progress, were never that great [...] but this famous incident was a watershed event in the history of the freedom of the press.It stood for a shorthand for an action multiplier and for the increase of denunciations from the newspapers and journalists that followed".Rede Globo has been heavily criticized for its coverage of the general elections of 2006.