Go figure. Certain media outlets like Rappler.com, and its cadre of “online journalists”, for example, seem to have first crack at “reporting” stories about administration “achievements”. The biggest media conglomerate in the country, biggest broadsheet and online news site, and the most popular mass entertainers all seem to exhibit a palpable bias towards the Yellow ideology of the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan in the way they deliver their content and “craft”. Even erstwhile respected foreign publications like BusinessWeek now seem to be part of this propaganda infrastructure.
Not surprisingly, the way media and information dissemination is organised commercially and bureaucratically in the Philippines seems to now closely parallel that of the National Socialist (Nazi) regime of German dictator Adolf Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. This uncanny parallel can be best appreciated by checking out the following excerpt from the book Age of Propaganda (Pratkanis and Aronson, W.H. Freeman & Co. 2001)…
Having learned from the Allied efforts in World War I the value of an organization capable of coordinating and delivering effective propaganda, Hitler established an apparatus of his own. This orgaization was privy to all the dealings of the Reich and had the responsibility of selling the government’s actions to the masses. To head up this organization, Hitler selected as his Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, the son of a lower-middle-class Catholic family from a small town in the Rhineland. Goebbels served as minister of propaganda from the time the Nazis came to power in 1933 until he committed suicide (after first poisoning his six children) near the end of the war. To get a flavor of what Nazi propaganda was really like, let’s look at a few of the persuasion tactics used.
One of the first, and most important, tasks of the Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda was to gain control of the mass media and to attract the attention of the masses. In the United States, Hitler and Goebbels hired public relations firms in an attempt to secure favorable press coverage of the regime. In Germany, Nazis controlled journalists and filmmakers through a mixture of punishments and rewards […]. The Nazi regime made certain that it was the primary source of news and easily accessible to certain journalists. This treatment was extended to include foreign correspondents thus putting U.S. reporters in a quandary: Report news unfavorable to Nazi Germany (such as the treatment of Jews) and be expelled or sanitize the news and be able to continue reporting.
The Nazis gained the attention of the masses by making their propaganda entertaining. For example, Nazi posters used eye-catching graphics such as bold print and slashing, violent lines as well as attention-getting headlines. Radio news programs were often packaged as entertainment, featuring famous singers and celebrities. The 1936 Olympics, which were held in Berlin, were used as a vehicle to promote the image of a strong “Aryan” nation and to build the self-esteem of the German people. During the Olympic games, foreign correspondents were treated like royalty and given tours of the “successes” of the regime; as a result, many U.S. journalists filed stories stating that previous reports of attacks on Jews were either unfounded or greatly exaggerated. With such complete control of the press, radio, theater, cinema, music, and the arts, the essential themes of the Nazi party were repeated and repeated.
[Photo courtesy My Calbayog Diary.]
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Coming back to the Philippines, much of the traditional media complex of the country is already under the control of oligarchs who owe much to the Aquino-Cojuangco dynasty. Even long before the 2009-2010 presidential campaign of current president Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III, the foundation for the awesome propaganda infrastructure of the Aquino-Cojuangco clan had already been lain. When the dust cleared in the aftermath of the 1986 “People Power” Edsa “Revolution”, the embryos of what are now two of the largest media outlets in the country — the monolithic ABS-CBN Network and the Aquino family newsletter, the Philippine Daily Inquirer — stood tall as “heroes” and went on to become the biggest beneficiaries of this “revolution”. Its owners continue laughing all the way to the bank — not a bad deal in exchange for the small utang-ng-loob (debt of gratitude) they owe to the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan.
The only greenfield left for the propaganda machine of the Yellow Mob to take control of was social media. Interestingly enough, as the battle for the ouster of then Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona loomed in the horizon in late 2011 and early 2012, Rappler.com popped up out of nowhere pitching itself as a “social news network“, a concept that even Rappler “thought leaders” fail to convincingly define clearly to this day.
As expected, as soon as the site was plugged and humming, Rappler “online journalist†Marites Vitug fired one of the opening salvos on the Opposition when she trumped-up what was then the controversial issue of Coron’s being granted a doctorate degree by the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in a “report†she published on the self-described “social news network†site. Vitug’s rather revealing overzealousness in what turned out, on closer scrutiny, to be sloppy investigative reporting on her part all but brought to light the question of who the financial backers of this new “social news network” could be — a piece of crucial information that, as far as we know, Rappler.com has so far been silent about.
The rest, as we know now, is history.
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Some people claim that GRP is negative? For what? Not taking what the administration and their ideological allies at face value?? Some politicians know that they are insulting people with intelligence and discretion in order to “reach” the masses. The current administration though is not even self aware to make that concession. They really think they are competent enough to have the whole nation eating out of their hand. To quote the Who “We’re not gonna take it, never did and never will”. The President of 95 million is supposed to be among the brightest and the best. Not only is Noynoy Aquino not that. He believes that he is.
There was this guy who invoked the divine right of kings to justify PNoy’s rule… Frankly, that statement sickened me.
Yellow army will justify their beliefs by hook or by crook. Never by rational concrete measures.
Back in the day, the Yellows were considered Yellow Nazis… Harsher in Hindsight much?
Nazis will think we are insulting them.
@Gogs
Only idiots like fishball will think GRP is negative.
Only idiots like them are full of negativity and only idiots will think that Pnoy is the greatest president.
As moronic as Noynoy Aquino is , there are the words of Obi Wan Kenobi:
http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/video/item/52/Obi-Wan.mp4
of course Fishball is part of that. The fact he is employed by the Communications Department of Malacanang regardless.
Anybody who points out problems that are obvious, but others blind themselves to these problems, tends to be seen as negative.
So true,
Care to divulge the other similarities between Nazis and Yellows?
For example, festooning the swastika / yellow ribbon on everything even in funerals.
“Consecrating” all those who swear before him as pure despite having served the so-called unlamented GMA regime”
Etc
Here is another look with a twist from the 10 most evil propaganda techniques used by the Nazis:
1.”Using symbolic imagery.” The Yellow Ribbon, Posters, Photo-Ops, Videos, Billboards, Relief Goods Epal, heroism and sainthood etc.
2.”Scapegoating of minorities.” Blame the Informal settlers for the flooding, the People of Mindanao for the Blackouts, the Intellectuals and Free Thinkers for their Criticism, etc.
3.”Controlling Mass Media.” Secure cooperation from friendly yellow members of the press and radio/TV broadcast companies and the internet. Create a central communications a.k.a. propaganda group with malware attack capability. Buy a.k.a. bribe thru handsome pay envelopes media people to “show” a wholesome cosmetic picture of the administration and the state of the country while hiding the ugliness within.
4.”Controlling the social sphere.” Create slogans and promises intended to deceive the people. Use entertainment like circuses to distract the people. Throw lavish parties with overpriced food and drinks.
5.”Controlling the press.” Urge cooperation in yellow image building. Dangle material rewards to opinion writers a.k.a. presstitutes and paid hacks. Entice publishers to the yellow cause. Utilize black propaganda against the enemies of the leadership and cosmetic reports of the accomplishments of the administration.
6.”Mythologizing the party.” Create yellow myths like there is no more corruption in government. Create yellow heroes and saints to be used as political circus props in building the cleaner image of yellow government for political election, expediency and opportunism. All this to cover-up the continuing systemic corruption within.
7.”Demonizing political opposition.” Includes perceived enemies and is self-explanatory.
8.”Focus on a national myth.” Continuing to focus on the one and only original EDSA people power revolt which has been used and abused by the yellows for coup purposes. Mob power rule above and over the rule of law. That the (un)civil society yellow groups sees itself as the sole defining conscience of what a moral straight path is while it favors their hidden agenda to monopolize political power in a continuing dynasty of traditional politics.
9.”Absorbing high culture.” Watching BSA perform rock and roll in yellow political events and rallies. Partying while disasters happen.
10.”The cult of the leader.” Creating a cult and image of BSA as the greatest president of the Philippines.
Der Fuhrer,
The so-called ‘techniques used by the Nazis’ you showed is obviously your way of demonizing Noynoy. However, because it lacks what I think was the most essential feature, it looks like a lame excuse to pounce and attack Noynoy.
Even if true, those you enumerated would amount to nothing because it has no legs to stand on.
Then why don’t you actually refute them.
Let’s wait for Der Fuhrer’s rebuttal first.
Good job, Der Fuhrer! The parrallels are uncanny. The Germans were also racists like Filipinos, except Filipinos, unlike the Germans, have to resort to skin-whitening products or go to Belo for nose jobs. The Germans were triumphalists like lots of Filipinos are today, although the Germans were and still are actually scientifically and technologically savvy—so perhaps have reason to be such, while Filipinos as a people are not—hence, Pinoy triumphalism is hollow and empty, i. e. puro yabang lang— and the media and the yellow group are simply exploiting this Filipino triumphalist sentiment.
Proud Pinoy!
Pray tell, then, what is this most essential feature that it lacks?
You’re not refuting any arguments, dakilang mangongontra ka lang eh.
FallenAngel,
Let’s wait for Der Fuhrer to respond because it was his post that I commented on. I want to give him the opportunity to justify or support his view.
Pwede ring manghula ka if you think you know what I was referring to as “the most influential feature” lacking in the allegation made by Der Fuhrer. Until then, let’s wait.
I don’t know, I see legs all around. The observations supporting these points of Der Fuhrer are so apparent.
the only difference though is that HITLER is an efficient leader…
Also, Hitler wants a glorious Germany under his Third Reich, becoming Masters of the World…I believe it is an insult to Hitler comparing N/A to him (but after all that he had done (HOLOCAUST), well, he deserved to be compared to N/A)
No, Hitler himself was an idiot, and most of his inner circle were, too. Read William Shirer. The difference was, the people who actually did all the work, the folks several rungs down the ladder, were the same efficient Germans they’d always been.
so will some of the Rappler-folks be considered…. better than idiots?
Are they in it (**Yellow Movement**) for more than money and power? Of course, there is VENGEANCE, but will any of them even mouth the praise “…. for the greater good”?
Hitler was mentally ill…
Even among you, Anti-Noynoys, there is disagreement as to what HItler is. One says he is efficient; another says, he’s an idiot. Then there is one who claims that he was mentally ill.
So you see, the comparison really rests on shaky ground for lack of unanimity with regard to Hitler’s character, behavior or sanity.
The only thing that matters here, jona-s is what I wrote on the article. And nowhere in the article is any comparison made between Hitler and Noynoy as people. It is the media control mechanisms of the two regimes that is being compared. It’s that simple. Thing with some people is they nitpick on idiotic detail and I suppose that merely reflects the size of their cognitive faculties.
Adolf Hitler, who was a Corporal in the German Army in world War I. Was diagnosed by the Army Psychiatrist, as mentally ill. He was discharged with that diagnosis. He became a drifter, then moved to Bavaria, Germany; where he started his political career of the NAZI German Party.
Actually, we all agree here that we like neither leader.
ABS CBN and PDI were returned to the rightful owners because it was stolen from them by Marcos.
Nobody likes to be stolen from, including the HL farmers.
The high court under Sereno already ordered its distribution.
Source for the record or yours is just pure hearsay, idiot. 😛
Uhm, wasn’t it Corona who was still Chief Jutice when the distribution order was given? Sereno even dissented against distributing it. She wants the government to pay the HL owners something like P10-B.
HL stolen from the farmers? When did the farmers owned HL?
They are asking the gov’t. to award it to them. They are not the owner of HL. Please do not distort the truth.
You’re the one who is distorting the truth. 😛
In fact, HL should be part of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program under Cory yet she never included the whole HL to be distributed, which ignited the Mendiola Massacre. Because in every Land Reform law, the lands owned by rich families should be given to the farmers.
It seems you just want to justify the Hacienda Luisita massacer in 2004, which prompted the Aquinos to go against Arroyo. And the rest is history.
@Jona-s
BTW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gevTmyWtHVo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Pinoy Pride chicken!
Daido,
One question, who owns HL?
I asked you that because Felipe is already talking of another issue. Obviously, he cannot answer the question. So, your turn.
@Jona-s
The answer is there and more! Just because you refuse to acknowledge the facts doesn’t mean they suddenly didn’t exist.
Get Real!
Mahina ka na talaga if it has to be spelled out for you..ABC lang yan. The answer is explicitly written in the video, panoorin mo lang mabuti. It will also help you learn to use common historical sense and simple reasoning. I hope it’s not yet too late for you. Unfortunately, people here will not pay you or match whatever you are being paid. So, it’s up to you to transcend your yellow circle and genuinely seek enlightenment—the real one.
HL is supposed to have been owned by the farmers in 1968, as condition for the loan granted to the cojuancos to buy the land with government guarantee. This is the undistorted truth Jona.
I recall the HL owners bought the plantation using a government loan in the 1950s, with a condition to give it to the farmers after 10 years. Fast forward to 2012, typical swapang Filipino bigwigs don’t want to live up to promises.
ChinoF
Below are links to the 5-part historical series on Hacienda Luisita that appeared online in GMA Network Special Events from January 2010:
Part 1: Hacienda Luisita’s past haunts Noynoy’s future
The issues surrounding Hacienda Luisita are being seen as the first real test of character of presidential hopeful Noynoy Cojuangco Aquino, whose family has owned the land since 1958. Our research shows that the problem began when government lenders obliged the Cojuangcos to distribute the land to small farmers by 1967, a deadline that came and went.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/181877/news/specialreports/hacienda-luisita-s-past-haunts-noynoy-s-future
Part 2: Cory’s land reform legacy to test Noynoy’s political will
There is a haunting resemblance between Senator Aquino’s “Hindi Ka Nag-Iisa” music video and a real-life torchlit march of Hacienda Luisita’s workers days before the November 16, 2004 massacre. What could be worth all the blood that has been spilled? The answer lies in a contentious 30-year stock distribution scheme, a legacy from former President Aquino
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/182195/news/specialreports/cory-s-land-reform-legacy-to-test-noynoy-s-political-will
Part 3: How a worker’s strike became the Luisita massacre
As Sen. Noynoy Aquino campaigns for the presidency, new attention has been focused on events of five years ago when labor strife on his family’s sugar estate left seven dead. This is the third of a series that examines the tortured history of Hacienda Luisita, an issue that would face another Aquino administration.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/182515/news/specialreports/how-a-workers-strike-became-the-luisita-massacre
Part 4: After Luisita massacre, more killings linked to protest
After the massacre of 2004, eight more people who were either leaders or supporters of the Luisita strike were murdered in Tarlac. A GMANews.TV investigation reveals that a survivor of one shooting testified in 2005 that Sen. Noynoy Aquino had appealed to him about a “superhighway”, which turned out to be the now controversial SCTex.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/183662/news/specialreports/after-luisita-massacre-more-killings-linked-to-protest
Part 5: Win or lose, Noynoy has to face Luisita deadlock
Since 2006, Hacienda Luisita and its farmer-beneficiaries have been locked in a stalemate after the Supreme Court temporarily stopped the implementation of a government order revoking the stock distribution option of the hacienda. In the fifth and last part of this series, presidential candidate Noynoy Aquino speaks on the range of Luisita-related issues that could hound his administraiton if he wins.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/190035/news/specialreports/win-or-lose-noynoy-has-to-face-luisita-deadlock
Chino F
Below are links to the 5-part historical series on Hacienda Luisita that appeared in GMA Network Special Events from January 2010:
Part 1: Hacienda Luisita’s past haunts Noynoy’s future
The issues surrounding Hacienda Luisita are being seen as the first real test of character of presidential hopeful Noynoy Cojuangco Aquino, whose family has owned the land since 1958. Our research shows that the problem began when government lenders obliged the Cojuangcos to distribute the land to small farmers by 1967, a deadline that came and went.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/181877/news/specialreports/hacienda-luisita-s-past-haunts-noynoy-s-future
Part 2: Cory’s land reform legacy to test Noynoy’s political will
There is a haunting resemblance between Senator Aquino’s “Hindi Ka Nag-Iisa” music video and a real-life torchlit march of Hacienda Luisita’s workers days before the November 16, 2004 massacre. What could be worth all the blood that has been spilled? The answer lies in a contentious 30-year stock distribution scheme, a legacy from former President Aquino
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/182195/news/specialreports/cory-s-land-reform-legacy-to-test-noynoy-s-political-will
Part 3: How a worker’s strike became the Luisita massacre
As Sen. Noynoy Aquino campaigns for the presidency, new attention has been focused on events of five years ago when labor strife on his family’s sugar estate left seven dead. This is the third of a series that examines the tortured history of Hacienda Luisita, an issue that would face another Aquino administration.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/182515/news/specialreports/how-a-workers-strike-became-the-luisita-massacre
Part 4: After Luisita massacre, more killings linked to protest
After the massacre of 2004, eight more people who were either leaders or supporters of the Luisita strike were murdered in Tarlac. A GMANews.TV investigation reveals that a survivor of one shooting testified in 2005 that Sen. Noynoy Aquino had appealed to him about a “superhighway”, which turned out to be the now controversial SCTex.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/183662/news/specialreports/after-luisita-massacre-more-killings-linked-to-protest
Part 5: Win or lose, Noynoy has to face Luisita deadlock
Since 2006, Hacienda Luisita and its farmer-beneficiaries have been locked in a stalemate after the Supreme Court temporarily stopped the implementation of a government order revoking the stock distribution option of the hacienda. In the fifth and last part of this series, presidential candidate Noynoy Aquino speaks on the range of Luisita-related issues that could hound his administraiton if he wins.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/190035/news/specialreports/win-or-lose-noynoy-has-to-face-luisita-deadlock
Lies. It was the Lopez clan who started the trouble, not Marcos.
Here’s a little story about the Lopez family: the Lopez clan were universally despised in the late 60′s for throwing a grandiose and very expensive party in Manila (with European royalty, no less) at a time when the country was in a bad way. The were publicly censured by no less than Old Marcos himself. Don Eugenio decided there and then that Marcos was an enemy, and Marcos obliged by jailing some Lopezes and confiscating ABS-CBN during Martial Law. Lopez family are NOT Philippine pillars of good society; they’re wannabe trash who just happened to be rich. And they’re making sure that every other Filipino is dumbed down enough to believe that ABS-CBN and the Lopez family are the best to ever happen to the Philippines.
And here’s another: Some time in the 1960s Lopez (the patriarch I think) held a party at his residence for society’s who’s who at that time. When then president Diosdado Macapagal arrived, the host was notified, presumably so that the usual courtesies would be performed. Nah, I don’t give a damn, said Lopez like the haughty kingmaker that he thought he was, that Macapagal person is on his way out anyway. Now it happened that an up-and-coming politician named Ferdinand Marcos overheard this remark. He made a mental note not to suffer the humiliation by this Lopez sonofabitch like Macapagal got, and the rest was history.
Actually, ABS CBN and PDI were not stolen by Marcos. It asked the Marcos government to bail out its loan because then both facilities were on the verge of closure, and the owners were not able to pay the loan when it matured. So, the government stepped in & took control of it. And when Cory took over, she just gave it away without obliging the Lopezes to pay for their debts to the government. Please ask Enrile about it. He knows, and that was feautured in the news. So, your accusation is misplaced.
Then, they become the propaganda machine network of the Aquinos, as payback…
Last I heard, ABS CBN had massive unpaid debt, so they were confiscated accordingly. PDI? I think Marcos never seized it, since it came out after his rule, am I right?
dont rank rappler below idiots because they are veteran journalists.
Even veteran journalists can be blinded by money and ambition and are willing to be used or exploited by rich or influential people like what is happening to rappler. Rappler is the yellow party’s internet presstitute or propaganda machine.
thats a Gloria mindset.
Gloria never demonized anyone other than your BS Aquino III. That’s a Yellow Mindset.
I’m sure you’re happy to get paid. 😀
@fishball
Then you are saying that Gloria has a superior mindset than BS Aquino.
No wonder BS Aquino is also called AbNoy.
You mean a Lee Kuan Yew mindset? Even he said Philippine journalists can be bribed.
exactly @Felipe the best example of envelopmental journalism
Rappler staff like you Fishball extol Noynoy Aquino.
A man who had no notable accomplishments or actions at age 50. A man who took advantage of his own mother’s death to gather the sympathy/ pansin vote of this nation. A man who could not lead his way out of a paper bag with a lightsabre. A man who acts like he holds the monopoly of virtue yet has never exhibited any. A man who tells the media and the courts what to do. A man who shows no poise or grace in performing his executive functions. A man who is hardly a man at all.
That man is who Rappler your veteran journalists extol.
If the guy was not president I doubt you would want to be seen with him in public.
We cant mirror Aquino Government to Nazi. The current administration is a peaceful one since no blood shed during EDSA 1. It gave us freedom with the leadership of Cory. Unlike Nazi which are dictated, controlled and warfreak.
Of course we can. The ‘People Power’ nonsense is more like a smokescreen to put Cory and other rich families in power. We’re not free since we are a laughingstock and it all started after Marcos left.
So where’s the ‘freedom’ you’re talking about? We’re not free economically.
No bloodshed? How about August 23, 2010?
Aha Fishball our Goebbel’s recruit is back with wrong grammar and irrelevant comment to boot. The real issue is not who owns and call the shots in the current media propaganda outlets and how they are manipulating and brainwashing the gullible Filipinos.
The media we have now is a free media – not the propaganda media your talking about.
HERP DERP! ABS-CBN, Inquirer and even Rappler are full of bias so the propaganda media is true after all.
Free media, my a$$. XD
Fishball,
Wake up and smell the durian. You work for the propaganda machine. You and the Minister of Truth are funded by us tax paying citizens to stifle our own discourse. A right we have in a free society. Do the right thing and abolish your ministry and take those funds and start educating the poor on how to make a living .
kahit na ano pa ang paninira mo, ang presidente ay patuloy pa rin sa masipag nyang pagtatrabaho para sa ikauunlad ng Pilipinas na sinira ng nkaraang administrasyon.
Lies. Ang nagsira talaga si Noynoy because he knows NOTHING. Talagang totoo lamang ang lumalabas tungkol kay noynoy. Langya anong pagiging proud mo sa anim nyang taon sa senado kundi matulog lamang? Walang bill na ipasa kahit magsarili sya! Parehas din kayong dalwa pero dahil mas tamad sya kay sa iyo, naging pangulo ng bansa sa pangalan lang. At ang mga taong may magandang idea sa politiko, sila ang hindi nagiging lider. Puro mga palpak lang.:P
You said that because that was the biased media tells you. Sarap maging TANGA, ‘no?
” Rappler , The Social News Network.
Uncompromised
journalism that inspires
smart conversation and
a thirst for change. ”
They are working as independent unlike your worthless declaration.
One thing I like in Rappler that makes it unique from other websites is feedback about a readers feeling on the article. Magagaling talaga sila!
Bobo. Magagaling talaga silang magmanipula! 😛 Well, most of the readers there are like sheep who had gone astray, being brainwashed since Rappler is composed of ABS-CBN guys. Period.
@fishball
Magaling talaga? Bobo, magaling lang silang mga sinungaling. Kaya pala palagi kang napapahiya kasi nagpapaloko ka sa kanila.
Bumalik ka nalang kay carandang at sabihin mo na balewala ang attempt mong manggulo dito.
Nobody listen to pro abnoy journalist.
timeline of Corona impeachment, FDAP,DAP
small lady, HC,Cory’s constitution for oligarch.yellow zombies propaganda.No more EDSA revolution cost nobody finance from yellow
That is their statement? Fact is that the former was a worthless declaration.
You’re now whored by Rappler. Deal with it, twit. 😛
It’s a very sad part of Human History…Six million people perished in the Nazi Germany’s concentration camps. They include: Jews; German political opponents; Disabled and Retarded Germans; Ethnic minorities, etc…The Aquino regime is following the tactics, and steps of Nazi’s Geobbels…
The concentration camp was in the middle of the Town of Dachau, Germany. The stink of rotting bodies was ten(10) miles away around the Town. Yet, people were afraid to complain.
They just said: “Howl with the Wolves!!!”. We must not let it happen again…
I have to nitpick on this… Those 6 million dead? That’s just the Jewish casualties of the Holocaust. Most others (LGBT, Poles, Russians, etc.) totaled at least 5 million.
The current administration stands with democracy, that is, everything goes through a process and everyone can live their own way.
Lies. Everything under the Noynoy admin doesn’t go through process. Fact is that even the impeachment of Corona is railroaded. Oh, and even the DOJ travel ban imposed on Arroyo. Desperate much? 😛
This form of government you talking about certainly isn’t our current democracy. The people make a spectator sport of it, turn into a mob when it goes haywire and lay reason to do such an act as ‘people power’. I guess not following the process and being orderly and upstanding citizens is not ‘people power’ as well eh?
Fishball, if your presidant really want daang matuwid,why he just disband the congress full of shit.
How many millions perished under Noynoy? Are there concentration camps in the Phil.? How ’bout political prisoners, are there any?
The comparison between Noynoy and Hitler is really mind-boggling. Where is the common sense?
WHERE IS THE CRITICAL THINKING THE “GET REAL” ARE SO PARTICULAR OF?
How can so many people be so crazy at the same time? How can people be so cruel and so vicious to only think of bad things against other people? How can one go through the motion and just follow the trend without thinking of the moral implication of their action?
The German people has experienced to follow without question. The same thing is happening on this blog. People who stop thinking because of hatred against others. Just like the Germans did.
Missing the point and you’re taking things too literally. Hitler and Noynoy have something in common: they have the media in their backs and using it as a propaganda machine. That’s the whole point.
Think about it: The US President Thomas Jefferson once stated that tyranny is “An oppressive power exerted over the minds of peopleâ€. That statement is the one that applies best to The Philippine situation. The proponents of tyranny no longer strut around carrying toledo blades, krag rifles and those bayonet tipped guns used to skewer babies during the Japanese era. The tyrants that grip The Filipino people now are equipped with printing presses, television studios and radio transmitters. The massacres they perpetuate are no longer bloody but are more massive and destructive for they no longer kill the bodies of a few thousand but the souls of tens of millions. Their bullets come in the form of mind numbing and soul destroying content that get shot in volleys through the airwaves hitting our people in the head making them dance, sing and laugh to the tunes of indecency, mediocrity, dependency and mendicancy.
Different time, same methods.
Agreed 100%! I won’t bother to rebut jona-s. He does not seem to understand the article title or read the free, critical press.
The dictator, autocrat, tyrant and/or monocracy is real. It uses and abuses democracy against democracy by manipulating minds through propaganda.
So they repeat lies over and over again to destroy perceived enemies. Already guilty before trial? The machinery of state controlled and used against perceived enemies? Government controlled by the man with a media machinery also hypnotizing the fanatic, gullible, ignorant and opportunist sectors of the population? Only in the Philippines.
And that’s the reason Noynoy is like Hitler now? Mababaw.
You have to prove and identify, if really true, which I highly doubt, those who are conniving with Noynoy. What you are doing, and some here, is exaggerating to the max. Sort of the boy who cries wolf.
The comparison with Hitler is really hilarious.
@jona-s
Let us examine the title of the article again… “How the Media Management Regime of the Aquino Government mirrors that of Nazi Germany.”
Who said anything about concentration camps? Besides, it was fishball who stated in one stupid post that We should be all put into reeducation camps? Does it/he/she know something we don’t? This is also off tangent… We do have a history of murders and massacres in this country.
Der Fuhrer – Who said anything about concentration camps?
i don’t read anything about noynoy’s concentration camp..
God you’re thick, jona-s. The thing being compared here with Nazi Germany is media management and nothing else.
Parallels are being cited not between how Noynoy or Hitler treated certain people but with how they approached media control and the organisations they set up to execute said control.
As I said before, jona-s: I’m watching you closely.
Well, benign0, I was just following what people are writing here. Tell me what words or terms originated from me?
Did I write this for you to threaten me?
I know you are watching me because your cronies here really needs your help very badly. Just look at the boards and see who’s dishing out the dirts and offending terms with intent to hurt and insult.
Not me.
It’s just too bad for you, dude. You’re kind of like an excon. You may have done your time, but you still become the first suspect at the scene of a crime. Sure there is no justice in that. But who says life’s fair? And that is what is real. Deal with it.
I hear you. And I can say the same to those who right now are on the opposite side of the isle against the gov’t./Noynoy but I won’t because, life may not be fair, but it doesn’t mean that we should no longer make it as an objective.
To not rock the boat further, I’m just going to disengage on this thread.
@jona-s: Glad you see things my way. 😀
How disingenuous. Calling his retreat as disengaging from this thread.
Actually, all of Jonas’ recent comments here and in other articles have been nothing more than clear-cut examples of being disingenuous: feigning ignorance or confusion to keep arguments in circles, introducing tangents to have discussions get derailed, dwelling on semantics to also get the discussions derailed, and (similar to above) providing alternative labels to mask the truth.
Hacienda Luisita massacre. There are hundreds, to protect their Hacienda…
I’m sure someone will get mad at me when I post this:
According to the authored book of Mr. Ceclio Arillo, “Greed and Betrayal†Cory Aquino governed like a dictator, worse than Marcos. Cory Aquino’s spending appetite might have been buried by her propagandist, including most of the media or journalist idolaters. Massacred picketers of Hacienda Luisita Farmers 1987 (Marcos never did anything like it) victims, no justice to these days. One Term Cory Aquino spent 1.6 trillion, while Marcos as leader for 20-21 years spent 484 billion pesos. Killed journalist under Aquino,34, under Marcos for 20 years, 32. Sickening to learn that she imprisoned those people who gave her the crown, as accidental president. What was the legacy of Cory Aquino? I think she did a big favor to her oligarch family and friends, spiraled down the Phil. economy and worsened the quality of life of Filipinos, Destroyed the country, for now followed through the disciplined of the people in place after Martial law, including Green Revolution, etc.
Benign0: The “uncanny parallel†in propaganda methods can also be gleaned from Hitler’s own book, Mein Kamph (My Struggle or My Battle), published 1925; and this can be found in Chapter VI, aptly titled — “War Propaganda.†Following are some lines —
“To whom should propaganda be made to appeal? To the educated intellectual classes? Or to the less intellectual?
“Propaganda must always address itself to the broad masses of the people.â€
Then, this:
“The aim of propaganda is not to try to pass judgment on conflicting rights, giving each its due, but exclusively to emphasize the right which we are asserting. Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side.â€
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“The broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly wavering between one idea and another.†http://www.std.com/obi/Adolph.Hitler/unpacked/mkv1ch06.html (NOTE: “This translation of the unexpurgated edition of ‘Mein Kampf’ was first published on March 21st, 1939.â€)
Rappler, you are certainly not alone; you pursue the same Hitler-prescribed “aim of propaganda†as ABS-CBN and PDI.
I feel like Godwin’s Law is being invoked here but yeah, this is a pretty accurate piece on the nexus between propaganda and political power, which is also mirrored in the local/provincial scenes. In our province our governor built his “charming” radio station a couple of years ago. Then his main political rival with boatloads of cash built another “golden” FM station. The latter FM station is pushing their warlord sponsor’s anti-admin propaganda.
jona-s just doesn’t see it. We are not against a democratic government per se. The way I figure it most of the GRP peeps are against BSA, his subtle dictatorship and his administration that is consolidating manipulation and control of people and institutions through Nazi style propaganda.
I’m not sure what this amounts to.
The success of the methods initiated by Dr Josef Goebbels on behalf of the Nazi party in Germany – which can be summed up as “sugar the pill” – have resulted in his methods being widely copied everywhere.
So what?