PML: "Globo's headline is as fake as a three-dollar bill"
"Dilma's campaign changes after millionaire corruption allegations," reads the headline on the front page of Monday's newspaper; but the changes in the team, as Paulo Moreira Leite clarifies on his blog on 247, had already been decided before the allegations of former Petrobras director Paulo Roberto Costa came to light in his plea bargain; "This is old and incorrect news," writes PML.
247 - The main headline in the newspaper O Globo on Monday, August 8th, reported that President Dilma Rousseff's campaign team had undergone changes following corruption allegations made by former Petrobras director Paulo Roberto Costa. However, these changes had already been announced due to the political climate, which showed a rise in support for her PSB opponent, Marina Silva, in the polls. "This is old and incorrect news," writes Paulo Moreira Leite in his column. blog no. 247.
"According to Globo, the entry of Minister Miguel Rossetto, of Agrarian Development, into the coordination of Dilma's campaign was a response to the accusations of Paulo Roberto da Costa. According to his version, Rossetto's arrival aimed to weaken Congressman Rui Falcão, president of the PT, who belongs to the same PT faction linked to the Petrobras scandal. The problem is that this is old and incorrect news," writes PML.
The journalist retrieves a headline from the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo from last Friday, 24 hours before Veja magazine hit newsstands with its report on the plea bargain: "PT assembles task force to counter Marina's surge." "A few weeks after the tragedy that killed Eduardo Campos, when Marina Silva had already surpassed Aécio Neves, Dilma's campaign was seeking to expand and gain reinforcements," he explains.
"To assume that Miguel Rossetto's entry could represent the growth of a trend in the campaign leadership implies ignoring the close relationships and connections of the other ministers who arrived with Rossetto in the same wave. Newspapers around the world make mistakes. The curious thing is to make such an easily avoidable mistake, since it was on the front page of Estado de S. Paulo, a publication that competes with Globo and Folha for the leading position among major Brazilian newspapers," assesses Paulo Moreira Leite.
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