Throughout my career as a journalist, a simple but profound teaching from Frederico Branco, a veteran of Estadão, has always guided me: “there are things that can and there are things that cannot”.
This maxim seems more relevant than ever when we observe the recent publication of an article entitled “” by a notorious scammer, without there being, in the same newspaper, a firm and immediate challenge to the absurdities, lies and insults launched against the press and institutions .
Many sought me out, knowing of my former relationship with the Sheetasking what happened to the newspaper. And honestly, I don’t know what to say. What is at stake is the credibility of a vehicle with . This is the moment when the institution owes a clear and firm response to its readers.
A vigorous editorial was needed that would unmask, point by point, the fallacies of the impostor who, not long ago, sought to silence this same press before even taking office. Readers deserved a blunt analysis, which recalled his history of attacks against institutions and the attempted coup after losing the elections.
Allowing someone unelectable, whose career is marked by affronts to democracy, to publish without counterweight a text with the title “Accept democracy” is, to say the least, a blow to the stomach.
