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New York Times takes over Philippine Daily Inquirer

UNPRECEDEN­TED IN PHILIPPINE JOURNALISM HISTORY

- BY RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO

THAT isn’t at all an exaggerati­on. It in fact happened yesterday, when the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) published as its most important article for the day—called the “banner headline”— an extremely biased New York Times (NYT) opinion piece disguised as a news story that was extremely condemnato­ry of President Duterte. Throwing its integrity to the winds, PDI published the piece a day after NYT had put it on its front pages: It has been degraded into a publicatio­n that publishes past articles of other publicatio­ns.

Presidenti­al Spokesman Ernesto Abella though should have a book on modern American idioms he can quickly consult: he was embarrassi­ngly wrong in calling it a “hack job,” which means a job so hastily done at the expense of quality

or detail. Rather, the NYT piece was a well-written “ attack on somebody, with false

The article’s title itself reveals its extreme bias: “Becoming Rodrigo - pines”. That’s patently a fake news. that the saliva he spews in his verbal

to read the NYT’s hatchet job, by devoting nearly all of its front page (see image) on the NYT piece, so fonts possible for the headline and

A biased opinion piece written by a

in a newspaper, is of the mainstream newspapers in the even entirely devoted to demonizing newspaper anywhere in the world in the modern era. Not even the

or the ever print derogatory articles against him written by the foreign press.

in its inside pages, written by a Filipino, very well written and researched, broke the My Lai massacre story)

- - this thing that represents the nation. - rendered its edition to the NYT,

claim to fame is that he was a mem analytical opinion writers like Randy Jose Nolasco, an old friend of as essayist Rosario Garcellano, the mine, retorted: “The has former two having written opinion always strove to be different. We see what’s news that other media get these writers, Filipinos who have [ now] look like the , it’s politics and society to write an article

article of the NYT writer, who spent a - few days here for research, who has lived all his life and wrote his article of these articles themselves reveal - foreign newspaper. Malacañang prob a lot of falsehoods in the past, which

most prominent American newspaper by a foreigner in a foreign newspaper, - - porter Jayson Blair was got away with plagiarizi­ng articles for several years,

embodiment of the nation, as the late reports on Africa, dramatized in a renowned scholar Benedict Anderson

Number 1 Screaming banner story

banner story a foreigner’s hatchet me and other Filipinos to read this

- respected personalit­y, for instance - proven objectivit­y and investigat­ive

Old trick

Any editor reading the NYT piece as many pejorative, even vivid, entire piece appear objective; name most damning allegation; point details. With the limitation­s of the

showing how the NYT piece did this.

-

told The Times in - - simply inventing this, as several NTY

“Antonio Trillanes, a senator, he had killed. and “how the brains has had a history as a lying political - was the political hitman of former “brains were splattered’” is an example of my point that hatchet jobs - is wired to remember.

- people, the police say, mostly in the was fabricated single-handedly by false. Does the NYT writer only read

the NYT writer was a hack, paid to make the NYT go to the writer’s de

media to write what one wants them to write is more sophistica­ted, among the writer, feeding him with lots of feel so important by inviting him for dinner in the lobbyist’s posh Manhat while the most expensive wine and caviar are served.

Now who lives in New York

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BECOMING THE NEW YORK TIMES: Have they run out of good writers?
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