Cristiano Zanin and Lula (Image:
Ricardo Stuckert)
Moisés Mendes*, on his blog
It got complicated for the mainstream press. There is no way to reach equality or parity, so dear to the farce of impartiality of media corporations, so that Lula and Jair Bolsonaro can be treated similarly.
By revealing the smuggling of the jewels, with the proven involvement of Bolsonaro, the Estadão pushed Globo e Sheet for the same lineup.
The competition is fierce, as the newspapers try to break the story of the day. But, at the same time, they need to beat Lula, because the average public in the mainstream press is conservative.
So that Bolsonaro is not beaten every day, without Lula also being attacked, Sheet e Estadão are pulling themselves together in the campaign once morest the nomination of Cristiano Zanin for the Supreme.
It’s the news of the hour. The two newspapers bet on the intrigue that Lula and the PT are harassed, so that the lawyer who unmasked Lava-Jato would not be nominated.
It’s all combined. The two made very similar headlines once morest Zanin on Saturday.
Both newspapers pretend to want a woman or a black minister in Ricardo Lewandowski’s vacancy and point out that the nomination would be unethical, because Zanin was Lula’s lawyer.
It is pure deception, not least because Minister Cármen Lúcia has already said in Roda Viva that there is no conflict. The important thing, she said, is that the nominee has notorious legal knowledge.
What the owners and editors at the newspapers want is to remove Zanin from the dispute, because the lawyer ended Lava-Jato.
If Lula yields to pressure, the newspapers will have won. That is why the campaign can be a serious strategic error, not least because it is too evident that Sheet e Globo invested in the same agenda.
Lula cannot give in to the interests of the great press. Sheet e Estadão say who Lula should nominate? Do not go.
What regarding the Globe? Globo must still be waiting for Merval Pereira’s opinion.
*Moisés Mendes is a journalist in Porto Alegre. He was a columnist and special editor for Zero Hora. He also writes for the newspapers Extra Classe, Jornalistas pela Democracia and Brasil 247.
