VILLAR-BASHING: PHILISTINE JOURNALISM OF OLIGARCHIC MEDIA
VILLAR-BASHING: PHILISTINE JOURNALISM OF OLIGARCHIC MEDIA
Prof. Erle Frayne D. Argonza
University of the Philippines
Good day!
It is Holy Thursday as I wrote this piece. I normally put a halt to all of my analytical engagements on this sanctified day, but this time I decided to take some minutes to scribble my thoughts about the current Manny Villar-bashing coming from various quarters, particularly from media personalities (opinion writers, broadcast journalists).
I will zero in on those journalists who are in the employ of big tv/broadcast networks and major news dailies. The cacophony of malicious heraldries from these intellectual prostitutes (if you can even regard them as ‘intellectual’ at all) had reached a crescendo that had magnified confusion in the voters’ mind.
Resorting to the typical emotionalist discourse and therefore short-circuiting the rational-analytic faculties of information consumers, the malicious attacks on the person of Sen. Villar, which do not the least contain substance worth our wise reflection, have altogether triggered a mass panic. The decline in the latest survey rating of Villar by 6% shows how little do people see the underlying motives behind the black propaganda peddled by the same cabal whose words they followed.
Let it be recognized, first of all, that these journalists, no matter how mentally adroit they appear to be, are in the payroll of oligarchic media. The mega-hoarding greedy oligarchs have their own respective pockets to fatten, and if the malicious, sensationalizing, irrational heraldries from the Villar-bashing journalists would yield enormous sums for the fat hoarders, then let there be more such destructive onslaughts from the journalistic cretins.
Too few are those journalists who would be considered informative, balanced, and exuding wisdom in their countenance, for such true thinkers reside outside the media circuits. Not even those so-called multi-awarded journalists would count among the truly erudite, awarded as they are only because they were able to whet the appetites of the judges who, likewise, are in the payroll of oligarchic institutions, while some other judges are private pals of writers and creative ‘artists’ who are happy enough to make cronies win.
If there is any attribution I can offer to the oligarchic media for now, it is this: that philistine journalism had taken the upper hand. This eventuality marks the fragmented state of the mind shapers (media), even as they are contributory to the fragmentation of the human psyche as a whole.
Mental cretins who are in the employ of the media moguls, no matter how erudite they may pretend to be, are among the harbingers of a Dark Age where the flames of reason have simply snapped off. These same philistines have elevated the Primal to a high level of discourse, thus further eroding the rational-analytical that has been subordinated tragically to the greedy ends of oligarchic hoarders.
There is nothing to gain from the articulations of those quack intelligentsia, but only great things to lose if one would yield to their contorted peregrinations. The more that a reader or audience would succumb to the seductions of the philistine pen & tongue, the more that his/her reason recedes into atrophied state, the more mis-comprehension of the political dimension of life.
Only the fecal-minded idiots would succumb to such dis-informative articulations that only serve to mask the greedy pursuits of the oligarchs who have been openly supporting the equally oligarchic candidate Noynoy Aquino. The nation shall grieve all the more as the masking of the true reality—that global oligarchs are mounting economic, political, covert offensives to destroy the Philippines—will be reinforced in no small measure by the philistine journalists and their oligarchic employers.
To my fellow Filipinos, beware of these philistine journalists and expose their falsehoods in diverse venues. Stand up and together we shall smote the dragons of oligarchism and poverty, end an eon of colonial history, and proclaim a truly free nation. Stand up for the nation, and a stronger nation means the installation of a nationalist leadership and patriotic political coalition.
We shall overcome!
[Philippines, 01 April 2010. See: https://unladtau.wordpress.com, http://erleargonza.blogspot.com ]
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Tags: Asia, barbarism, Conrad De Quiroz, culture industry, East Asia, Erle Argonza, Manny Villar, Manuel Quezon III, mass media, Noynoy Aquino, oligarchy, Philippine politics, Philippines, Prospero De Vera, Winnie Monsod
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UNLADTAU 
April 3, 2010 at 6:35 am
I am glad to have read an article written by someone like you. I hope that many will be able to read what you have written. I am saddened by the fact that those people who backed GMA are the very same people backing Noynoy. These are the people that will destroy our country. These are the people who pretend to be the voice of the nation.
April 5, 2010 at 5:51 am
These days, one has to be wary about reading something from a paid hack. These people pretending to be journalists are no different from those tabloid writers who have mastered the art of sensationalism to sell a newspaper.
I am more inclined towards reading blogs of amateurs, even when they are written by rabid supporters of one camp. At least I get the sense that they are speaking from the heart, and not from the pocket.
April 5, 2010 at 5:14 pm
VERY NICE AND TRUTHFUL ABSERVATION AND FACTS= ARTCILE-KEEP WRITING AGAINST THIS GROUP OF PROSTITUTE JOURNALIST-KUNO HEHEHE!!!!!