Bricklayer: The media has become a much greater evil than all those it points to.

Journalist Fernando Brito uses Folha's "absolutely unfounded and propagandistic" headline about Congressman Jair Bolsonaro to point out the media's responsibility in the political and economic crisis Brazil is going through; "It's not just Folha that lacks the moral authority to question the authoritarian surge to which it contributed and which it legitimized. The entire media and judicial institutions were complicit in what they now call the 'bankruptcy of politics'," says Brito; "The Brazilian press, since those days of 2010, when it proclaimed itself 'the true opposition', has become a much greater evil than all those it points to."

November 13, 2017, 12:27 PMUpdated June 27, 2018, 08:53 pm

Journalist Fernando Brito uses Folha's "absolutely unfounded and propagandistic" headline about Congressman Jair Bolsonaro to point out the media's responsibility in the political and economic crisis Brazil is going through; "It's not just Folha that lacks the moral authority to question the authoritarian surge to which it contributed and which it legitimized. The entire media and judicial institutions were complicit in what they now call the 'bankruptcy of politics'," says Brito; "The Brazilian press, since those days of 2010, when it proclaimed itself 'the true opposition', has become a much greater evil than all those it points to" (Photo: Aquiles Lins)

By Fernando Brito, from brick - The irreverent spirit of Rio de Janeiro has incorporated the Portuguese proverb that "God does not give wings to snakes."

They gave.

For money and for politics, which, after all, is about money.

Since communication is a private empire where it shouldn't be – the Constitution states that broadcasters, a public concession, should prioritize "educational, artistic, cultural and informative purposes," but instead they prefer easy money from the "dog-eat-dog world" – we've watched it fill up with characters who "pull the finger at them" or even bang their fists on the table, and pseudo-humorists where kindness – when it exists – is only in name.

Next came the robed Ratinhos, released for a season of media-driven arrests – the so-called Japanese Federal Agent will even run for Congress, if his smuggling conviction allows it – commanded by the Curitiba-based sent by God.

Then came the political beasts, because anything was valid to overthrow Lula's legacy during Dilma's government. Aécio Neves became a "statesman," and Eduardo Cunha, amidst applause and cheers, became the terrorist of the "bomb agendas."

And from the shadowy and suspicious Federal Court of Accounts, through the machinations of a prosecutor who regularly attended the right-wing rallies, came those so-called "fiscal maneuvers"—does anyone remember them?—to "justify" the removal of the elected government.

Yesterday, Folha's reporter was barred from a meeting of the MBL, which had tickets sold to anyone.

Don't complain. Wasn't it Folha that elevated this Kim Kataguiri to "one of the exponents of a combative, young and emerging movement, an adherent of liberal ideas and critical of the left"?

Today, I'm going out with a Editorial In which – just as Aécio says of Luciano Huck – he claims that Jair Bolsonaro is a result of the failure of politics:

The far-right candidate benefits simultaneously from the country's economic and social degradation in recent years and the absence of defined candidates outside the leftist camp..

But yesterday, it gave him completely unfounded and propagandistic headlines by saying that the “The market is flirting with Bolsonaro's reformist agenda."When, in fact, it's exactly the opposite, as was demonstrated here yesterday. Bolsonaro is the one who sheds part of the persona he adopted and shamelessly offers himself to the 'market'."

It's not just Folha that lacks the moral authority to question the authoritarian surge it contributed to and legitimized. The entire media and judicial institutions were complicit in what they now call the "bankruptcy of politics."

In the depressing scenario they've created, even worse, they still see the adventure of a TV lottery host as a possible way out. habituefrom the group that disgusts Brazil.

The Brazilian press, ever since 2010 when it proclaimed itself "the true opposition," has become a far greater evil than all those it claims to be.

Because it was her hatred for Lula that made her resort to the "scandal above all else" narrative, which amplified and gave stupidity a monopoly on discourse in this country.