During President Duterte’s early days in the office, several times
I heard from his speeches he said that there is time of reckoning, and I believed
in that. Everything has its end and everything
that is evil, bad and wrong must end.
When I first read a Sassot’s
article, I
must admit that I admired his art of writing. It seemed that he is full
of knowledge, he has many resources, and he knows how to write piece of
writing, commentary, analysis, and etcetera.
But not long after, I‘d noticed something is fishy on his successive articles
that I read and that is suspecting his being propagandist until I have proven
it myself. When he kept on praising all
things about Duterte and maligning all about non-Duterte, this how I concluded. And I knew then, he had just using to be patriotic
via his allegedly concern for the Mother Land.
From then on, I wasted no time to read his writings because they are
just such toxic that can ruin my cause, stand and even my spirit.
In any given time, I never trusted Mocha. Her credibility or reputation is simply not pleasant
for me. It is not about her being one of
those have been sexy starlets but it is her principle. I can say she is the “mother” of all fake
news. She has written so much,
regardless if unverified and they cemented our divisiveness. Opportunist at its best, she mastered the 360
degrees turn when there is change of wind.
A once Noynoy Aquino self proclaimed admirer and suddenly a loyal
die-hard supporter of she calls tatay Digong.
She has agenda. When she claimed that
she is not after any position why she is doing her political blogging but later
she accepted post as appointee not once but twice, it is her true color. Also when she declared her plan to run for
public office, I was a little worried she could win because of her huge social
media followers but I was full surprised when she did not make it.
R.J. Nieto was in disguise
via his pen name and behind the biased political pro-admin blog called Thinking
Pinoy. Reading his articles that obviously
a partisan, from the start I knew already this kind of writing was propaganda. Maybe paid I didn’t know yet but when he
exposed himself and associated himself in many government events, I doubted his
sincerity in writing. He is in the
payroll of certain politicians, payroll that comes from taxpayers of pro and
anti. Isn’t it wasting money rather than
using it in most needed assistance to the poorest of the poor people?
He marked to me
as strong DDS although he is not as popular as the three propagandists of
Duterte administration but Mr. Riyoh has severe way of attacking the opponents
and approving way of elevating Duterte.
He used videos in spreading biased opinions and his market is the rugged
overseas Filipino workers. I am not
comfortable watching his video vlogs. The
words are rugged and relatively violent and content is purely partisan. I do not know if they are still the same until
now. Since he uses basically Tagalog
language in his propaganda, it easily captured most of rugged OFWs.
My gauge is simple: when a person has all-praise and has anything
but good to someone but has nothing to say good to other side – that is fanatics. I am not intellectually gifted but I can
comprehend in the matter of spreading fake news. While some of my relatives, friends, colleague
and acquaintances showed full support to these purveyors of fake news, I cannot
understand why they patronize the obviously irresponsible, unauthenticated and
fabricated stories. Then later I
realized, they are just either merely disappointed with previous
administration, blind supporter of the current administration or both.
I wish to come the day of reckoning for Sass, Mocha, Nieto et. al. to
teach them that everything has its own end.
Regardless if it is right or wrong, they used their flat form for their
personal gain even it brought confusion amongst the netizens and poisoned the
minds of the gullible netizens. I feel
pity, sorry, and regretful to the talent of these people when they used writing
in selfish way: disrespect and destruction to journalism. I think it is not in the correct grammar or syntax error that writing can be best of not but it is in the effects that it brought to the readers. So when these fake stories made us influenced, that is the time when writing went wrong.