PHExcerpts from today's column: "PH mainstream media betrays democracy"
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IT's been more than a week since Cathy Binag, former partner of Antonio Floirendo, disclosed in a widely watched YouTube channel of popular "vlogger" Maharlika that the banana magnate's close friend, now President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., was a regular cocaine user. Binag disclosed that Marcos even had a small circle of friends — that included billionaire Iñigo Zobel and now Special Assistant to the President Antonio Lagdameo Jr. — who regularly had cocaine-snorting sessions, even at the Marcoses' Forbes Park mansion.
Yet Philippine mainstream media, mainly the six big Manila-based broadsheets and tabloids, as well as the biggest broadcast outfits and the US-funded internet-only news outfit have totally ignored this explosive story that reveals the character not only of President Marcos but also his innermost circle of friends since his college days. Mainstream media have not published nor broadcast a single news article, not a single opinion column.
Even self-styled guardians of press freedom, especially the US-funded media outfits like Vera Files, Rappler, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, and the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility are exposed as minions by this Binag exposé. They have been totally silent on this issue. Why? Because Marcos is a certified puppet of the US, and these entities can't defy the American hand that feeds them. ABS-CBN's Karen Davila, whose "Head Start" program has focused on one-on-one interviews, and featured and interviewed hundreds of less newsworthy personalities, would have begged to interview Cathy Binag. She didn't. In fairness to Davila, that "don't" order would have come from the very top.
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IT's been more than a week since Cathy Binag, former partner of Antonio Floirendo, disclosed in a widely watched YouTube channel of popular "vlogger" Maharlika that the banana magnate's close friend, now President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., was a regular cocaine user. Binag disclosed that Marcos even had a small circle of friends — that included billionaire Iñigo Zobel and now Special Assistant to the President Antonio Lagdameo Jr. — who regularly had cocaine-snorting sessions, even at the Marcoses' Forbes Park mansion.
Yet Philippine mainstream media, mainly the six big Manila-based broadsheets and tabloids, as well as the biggest broadcast outfits and the US-funded internet-only news outfit have totally ignored this explosive story that reveals the character not only of President Marcos but also his innermost circle of friends since his college days. Mainstream media have not published nor broadcast a single news article, not a single opinion column.
Even self-styled guardians of press freedom, especially the US-funded media outfits like Vera Files, Rappler, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, and the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility are exposed as minions by this Binag exposé. They have been totally silent on this issue. Why? Because Marcos is a certified puppet of the US, and these entities can't defy the American hand that feeds them. ABS-CBN's Karen Davila, whose "Head Start" program has focused on one-on-one interviews, and featured and interviewed hundreds of less newsworthy personalities, would have begged to interview Cathy Binag. She didn't. In fairness to Davila, that "don't" order would have come from the very top.
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