Globo's tax evasion will become a Carnival song.

The weekend was historic. Celso de Mello's cry for independence triggered a "spiral of silence" that, until now, had been working in favor of the coup plotters. The wind has shifted. In recent days, several figures from the legal world, including celebrities of political conservatism, have frontally attacked the abuses and injustices of Criminal Action 470.

The most striking example came from Ives Gandra, a jurist and author of dozens of books on law, who became famous in the media for his invectives against the PT (Workers' Party). This Sunday, Gandra went all out and said, in an interview with Monica Bergamo in Folha de S.Paulo, that Dirceu was convicted without evidence.

Now everyone is wondering: why only now? Many speculate that the jurist may already be considering the danger that the theory of de facto control represents for all the wealthy people in the country, since, according to it, any wrongdoing in the kitchen can lead to conviction in the board of directors.

That's possible. It's certainly an excellent and valid reason.

While the Mensalão scandal lasted, and especially in those fiery days leading up to Celso de Mello's vote, it was curious to witness the appearance of an incredible number of self-appointed sympathizers. O Globo newspaper tirelessly repeated an exotic slogan, that the Supreme Court could not give the impression of protecting "the rich and powerful."

A risky move, no doubt. But some people like to live dangerously.

The hangover hit hard. Many people woke up with severe headaches, remorse, and the bitter taste of a historic political defeat.

They ardently defended the guillotine, and now, with the storm of fury over, they fear for their own heads.

It's curious to observe that the São Paulo press, especially Folha, is trying to distance itself from Globo's coup-mongering.

Based on what we know of Estadão, it will take years for it to recover from the shock caused by Gandra's interview. But it's a declining newspaper, with falling circulation and accounts in the red. It's no longer relevant.

We have Veja magazine, which signed a tremendous receipt of defeat last week.

But Veja magazine is in serious disrepute. It has become a ridiculous caricature of itself. Its threat to "crucify" Celso de Mello has definitively sealed its credibility.

Celso de Mello, instead of being crucified, earned the respect of the legal community, both on the right and the left. Lewandowski himself, previously demonized by mediocre sectors of the media, received definitive praise from Ives Gandra.

Today it was Claudio Lembo's turn, also a leading figure in São Paulo's conservative movement. Call Criminal Action 470 of a "medieval" process.

However, let's not be naive. There is still much to be done to detoxify Brazilian public opinion.

The "mourning" of the actresses from Globo (a Brazilian television network) is proof of this. We all have friends, relatives, acquaintances, who have spent years buying into the media's narrative.

The Supreme Court itself bowed to the media. Mello's vote was an "outlier," to use the expression that Minister Barroso used to refer to Criminal Action 470 itself. And it will now have difficulty finding an honorable way out.

The ministers are trapped in a psychological trap. How can they disavow everything they've done? Furthermore, not being politicians, they don't fully grasp the extent to which the story of "popular clamor" is true.

Celso de Mello himself, in his vote, spoke as if outside the Supreme Court there were two million people demanding the "imprisonment of those involved in the Mensalão scandal." There weren't even fifty, half of them teenagers with their faces covered, who didn't even know what they were doing there; the other half were actors paid by some opposition party or political figure.

In any case, we have to be careful. Veja and Globo, defeated and cornered, have become even more aggressive and dangerous. And equally, as we have seen, more desperate and reckless.

The approval of the Right of Reply bill, authored by Roberto Requião in the Senate, represents, in this sense, an important democratic advance, guaranteeing individuals against the arbitrariness of a media whose values ​​are still those of the dictatorship.

The mainstream media is becoming increasingly isolated and challenged. Blog readership has grown fabulously in recent months. We're like cake; the more they beat us, the more we rise.

Some fundamental chemical reactions only occur above a certain temperature. Perhaps we are nearing a definitive rupture in the balance of power between media and government in Brazil.

I suspect that next year's Carnival, instead of moralistic verses about the mensalão scandal, will see a profusion of groups mocking Rede Globo's tax evasion.

I'm already scribbling down some verses myself…

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