Paulo Henrique Amorim loses new lawsuit against Mainardi

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Accused of fabricating news to benefit those who pay for it and harm his sponsors' competitors, blogger Paulo Henrique Amorim did not like seeing himself in the position of window dressing. He sued journalist Diogo Mainardi , from Veja magazine , in the civil and criminal spheres. In the first case, he lost. In the second, too. And he was also ordered, this week, to pay the legal costs and fees of Mainardi's lawyers — who was represented by Lourival J. Santos and Alexandre Fidalgo. Amorim's lawyers have already appealed. “We hope that the Court of Justice can provide the appeal”, stated José Rubens Machado de Campos. Paulo Henrique Amorim's initiative attracted attention. After all, he gained fame for the virulence of his attacks in the press.

In an interview with Folha de S.Paulo he has already defined his activity as “an exercise in verbal beating” and the keys on his computer as “those buttons that fire missiles”. According to Phone Number List Mainardi, Amorim charged R$, per month for the bombing. The columnist for Veja states that the blogger “resumed the most filthy practices in journalism, such as blackmail, lies, propaganda of power and paid articles”. The Observatório da Imprensa portal has already described Amorim as “a prototype of the lyncher. Jammer paradigm. Breakdown provoking agent”. But it was another attitude that caused more strangeness in the proceedings: he asked for, and obtained, the protective cloak of judicial secrecy so that information regarding the dispute would not be disclosed.



After all, if journalism is based on the principle of public exposure, one can imagine that journalists are defenders of publicity and not of secrecy. Judge Angélica Nagao, from Fórum de Pinheiros, who refused Amorim's request to punish Mainardi, seems to have understood that anyone who likes to throw stones at other people's roofs should not be surprised by leaks in their kitchen. And what's more: disagreements between journalists, in general, are healthy. Complicities are broken and these opportunities in which the press exercises the rigor it usually applies to others are rare. Fuzzy Transactions In the episode involving Paulo Henrique Amorim, for example, relevant accusations came to light at a time when the desirability of a new press law was being discussed.