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Essay About The Media In The Philippines

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In September 21, 1972, then President Ferdinand Marcos placed the Philippines under Martial Law. With this, he ordered media establishments to be closed and regulated. It is for this reason that media was heavily manipulated by the government. The dissemination of news and information was controlled, and citizens were kept ignorant regarding the country’s actual situation.
When Martial Law was declared, the first thing that Marcos did was to assign all privately owned media establishments, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television facilities, to the Press Secretary and the Defense Secretary (Braid & Tuazon,1999). Among these establishments were Philippine Daily Inquirer, Daily Mirror, ABS-CBN, and the like. This order brought …show more content…

Evidently, the media was divided into two: the Marcos Media and the Alternative Press, or “Mosquito Press”. The members of the Marcos Media disseminated information that propagandized the administration of Ferdinand Marcos and covered anomalies. Censored, these anomalies, including extrajudicial killings, rampant corruption, and the decline of the Philippine economy, hardly came to light due to the efforts of the Marcos Media and the dictator himself to keep everything under wraps. On the other hand, the Alternative Press was composed of “radical” students, “rebellious” journalists, and other media personalities critical of the Marcos Administration. In opposition to the Marcos Media’s censorship and propaganda, they produced articles, leaflets, and newspapers reporting the abuses the administration was committing to the country and the people. As a result, many of the journalists and media persons involved in the production of such news were arrested and incarcerated in military camps; some even tortured or killed (Sarrosa, 2013). Due to these two conflicting conditions of media, democracy in the country was repressed and chaotic. The widespread deception by the Marcos Media effectively lulled those not very affected or aware of the abuses the government was executing into a false sense of security, whereas those who knew better were quickly caught and if not subjected to scrutiny, then to torture or incarceration. Democracy became subjective; one could only exercise it if

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