Reinaldo is afraid. And that's why he's attacking us again.

Leonardo Attuch _247 – Reinaldo Azevedo is scared. That's the only thing that can explain his latest attack on 247 this Sunday. In Reinaldo's text (read more hereHe brings up a Veja magazine report that the magazine should be ashamed of. After all, the attacks Veja launched against me resulted in Abril being ordered to pay compensation (read more). here) and formal retraction, published in its pages (read more here).

In other words: when Abril fought me in court, it lost. And in the clash of ideas, it will lose again.

Reinaldo accuses us of defending the governor of the Federal District, Agnelo Queiroz. All because we decided to publish a report, with a dialogue extracted from the wiretaps of Operation Monte Carlo, published first on 247.

"Will he fall now?", Carlos Cachoeira asks Cláudio Abreu, director of Delta, referring to Governor Agnelo Queiroz.

- "It blew up, huh, the thing blew up, huh," Abreu replies.

"It was too good," Cachoeira continues.

"But I already told PJ: PJ, go this way."

“PJ” stands for Policarpo Júnior. And the topic of conversation is a report published in Veja magazine, linking Governor Agnelo Queiroz to the practice of illegal wiretapping. “Will he fall now?”

When a media outlet lends itself to being used by a gambling operator/contractor who tries to corner legitimately elected governments in pursuit of their commercial interests, that's news. At least, that's what 247 [a Brazilian news website] reports. It would have been news in Veja magazine in the past, too. But today, the magazine is cornered. It's working behind the scenes to prevent its publisher, Roberto Civita, from being summoned to testify before the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry.

Understandable. Civita fears being humiliated. Reinaldo doesn't. He faces the music. And, in him, fear provokes extreme reactions. Even the delusion that he had a fan in me.

What is happening in Brazil today is very simple. Previously, four families controlled information in Brazil and dictated the public agenda. Today, with the democratization of the internet and the advancement of social media, everyone participates in the process of creating and refining news. The model is no longer vertical. In the era of journalism 2.0, it is horizontal. Because of this, old empires become vulnerable.

In this new world, the families Traditional media outlets are losing power. And they also tend to lose advertisers, since there will be increasingly more suppliers of journalistic content in a pluralistic, interactive, and democratic world. While Veja has its audience, there are also those who prefer to define it as #VejaBandida (Veja the Bandit) or #VejaGolpista (Veja the Coup Plotter), two hashtags that became the most discussed topics in the world on Twitter.

Reinaldo attacks us by saying that José Dirceu and Delúbio Soares publish articles here. But he doesn't mention César Maia, Arthur Virgílio, Gabriel Chalita, Eduardo Braga, Manuela D'Ávila, Walter Feldman, Marcos Cintra, Xico Graziano, Luciano Siqueira, and many others, from various political backgrounds. Even Demóstenes Torres and Reinaldo Azevedo could publish articles on our page because, at 247, opinion is free – that's what guarantees plurality. He also condemns us by saying we are "free as a taxi." But the passengers here are the readers. And many continue to sift through information in the Operation Monte Carlo investigations about the editorial partnership between Cachoeira and Veja, which yielded political and commercial benefits to the racketeer.

That's what Reinaldo is afraid of.