by Nimfa Estrellado Straight Talk June 8, 2019 Before and during Martial Law, it is a well known fact that Ferdinand Marcos controlled t...
Straight Talk
June 8, 2019
Before and during Martial Law, it is a well known fact that Ferdinand Marcos controlled the media. The same is happening today, the politically controlled media only tells us what fits their socialist political agenda. If the news doesn’t fit what they say or believe to be true, then it is altered or forgotten altogether.
When Marcos imposed his dictatorship on 44 million Filipinos in September 1972 and abolished all democratic processes and civil liberties, among the first major victims to succumb were the press and the mass media. On the eve of the proclamation of martial law, leading mass-circulation dailies, weekly magazines and journals, radio and television stations, were shut down by soldiers in full combat gear. Thousands of journalists, editors, radio and television personnel were arrested and thrown into jail without due process.
Every piece of information was screened by him and only what served his agenda was allowed to be released to the public. It was largely antisemitic and mostly untrue, he blamed the media for everything regardless if they had anything to do with it or not.
Lie after lie was told until the general public began to believe every parcel of it, you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth, after a while people fall in line to the lie being told only because it is the perceived truth of the land and they hear nothing to counteract it. Even Face book and Twitter, YouTube and many other social media sites follow the same agenda.
Regretfully it is a liberal agenda, often times many well meaning and well spoken conservatives like Rappler get censured, not because of hate speech but because their conservative views don’t fit the narrative and the censor is so indoctrinated with liberal views they view another view point as hateful when it is only a different opinion.
We are slowly falling into line with what the Martial Law were doing in the 1970s, we are becoming indoctrinated with only one point of view and we are bombarded with it many times a day, and there is, in many instances no opposing view to compare it with.
People are taking at face value everything they hear on the news without questioning any of it. This is a very dangerous position to take, people only believe what they heard on the 6 o’clock news and don’t consider as gospel truth, if it has even a morsel of truth.
