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A New Genre of Propaganda
March 9, 2009 By 29 Comments
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[...] rin ang sinabi niya tungkol sa kaso ni Rebelyn, na bumagsak ang antas ng militar. Hindi papahuli si Dean Jorge Bocobo sa pagbanat sa New People’s Army kahit sa panahong ang militar at rehimen ang dapat na nasa depensiba. May naniniwala ba talaga sa [...]
Where did he get all that? Does this confirm the reports that the AFP sells ammunitions and even high-powered rifles in the black market?
And that some of these go into the hands of the enemies themselves?
No wonder, the vicious cycle never ends.
I really feel it would justify all his past and future crimes.
The NPA are looking like the good guys, which is tragic for us. I don’t like communism. i believe they are outdated and borne out of misreading Karl Marx, the philosopher. I don’t believe they have a plan for our country. But, God, killing innocent non-combatants? If this is psy war, whoever is doing this should go back to school.
DJB,
You’ve just given Commander Parago celebrity status on the World Wide Web!
Inferentially what does this say about his daughter getting raped and killed?
Collateral damage?
The picture reminds me of Sorites paradox or of the paradox of the heap.
Imagine a bale of hay. If I remove from that bale of hay one straw. And then remove another straw from that bale of hay. And further again, remove from that bale of hay another straw.
Now, at what point does it cease to be a bale of hay?
Point here is this, the rebel has with him what looks like a bale of hay, or a bandoleer stuck with grenade launchers in it.
If I then take all of that grenades, what will the man really look like?
In fairness, DJB just re-tagged the Inquirer photo.
Why Inquirer would use that picture is beyond me. Most media (not only MSM) has the tendency to sensationalize. The guy looks like a walking fireworks store.
Unless they had no subtle picture ala Osama bin Laden holding his Kalashnikov AK-47 in his Afghan hideout but projecting an image that he had nuclear weapons in his possession.
I believe the Tagalog word is ‘ginagatungan.’
Sure, Inquirer must be missing the heady days when Erap ruled but don’t forget the Inquirer people are no different from the people here. I understand where they’re coming from. It’s a shorter version of the 5 stages of grief wherein disbelief, anger and frustration are rolled tightly into one stage like a twisted intestine.
Phil Manila,
My only beef, if you may call it that,is for Paarago’s obviously staged photo-opp to be posted even as PDI itself sensationalized it.
This, as I commented earlier reduces Rebelyn to just collateral damage in a civil war.
Whoever raped sand killed her achieved their objective.
Ding,
I hear you, alright. But in one thread, didn’t Benign0 also call your attention about cut-and-pasting photos of the grieving relatives/friends and invoked respect for their privacy.
I surmise DJB will be arguing along that track.
I’m not really sure about photo publication protocols in mainstream, as well in new, media.
Phil Manila,
The objective was different. The relative in the editorial montage was precisely reacting to the act not posing for a proganda photo-opp.
The shot of the grieving relative was not a stolen shot but in the context of the discovery of the fate Rebelyn met.
I hope the nuance is clear.
You may also note that in my reaction to DJB’s post I was taking exception to its stylized treatment, propagandized as it were.
Still and all it has been used and let the readers appreciate it on their own.
As for Benigno’s hectoring comment, did he address the issue itself.
No.
Ding,
Although I have some idea of DJB’s politics, I guess we will just have to wait for his talking point on why he re-captioned and posted the Inquire photograph.
But going back to the Inquirer: why would a ‘respectable’ daily publish a photo like that? Would you extend sympathies to a father whose daughter was raped then killed but seeing how armed and therefore dangerous, the NPA commander?
It really begs the question.
I dunno. Unless its plain vanilla sensationalism or ‘nanggagatong.’ BTW, I’ve seen ABS and GMA networks also do this.
MABUHAY ANG KILUSAN! Ma.. huh?!
Ok why do I feel like a pervert after that?
Phil Manila,
NPA has been getting a lot of Bad Press lately for their use of internationally banned land mines. They needed a boost from their allies in media, so they called a Press Conference.
Looks like maybe Ka Roger is “permanently incapacitated” and this is the new spokesman who gives interviews only rarely but is in constant touch with the very willing Press.
If you click on the stamp above it takes you to the original at PDI though it will be gone by tomorrow! C’est la linque.
The caption that goes with the original pubished photo, of which the stamp above is only a portion, is reproduced verbatim below [including weird his her pronoun confusion found only in da Pilipins.
Such a paragon of fatherhood, Commander Pitao ought to turn himself in. He looks like he knows quite a bit about killing himself and ought to assist authorities in the solution of a whole string of murders, extortionss, kidnappings, cell phone hostagings and illegal land mine explosions.
The newspaper really needs to do an in-depth story on the “colorful” career of Mr. Pitao. I am sure it is highly commerciable catalogue of human suffering and misery inflicted in the name of an inhuman revolutionary ideology.
But can even Catharsis work its magic on a man who wears a bandolero of grenades to work every morning, instead of a simple barong tagalog like everybody else?
Phil Manila,
As we are exchanging views I’m pretty certain DJB is either chuckling or seriously reflecting on how his graphical game, as it were, is going down. He will ask, picking up from recent threads how it is when the shoe is on the foot and the ethical aspect of a loaded image is ‘propagandized’
This is really par for the course because ultimately it is how the message receivers interpret the message and how they will be swayed by it, positively or negatively.
DJB,
Your “…Commander Pitao ought to turn himself in. He looks like he knows quite a bit about killing himself and ought to assist authorities in the solution of a whole string of murders, extortionss, kidnappings, cell phone hostagings and illegal land mine explosions.” is speculative but likely not far off the mark.
The implication that Parago is complicit in his daughter’s death given his being a combatant sadly affirms that Rebelyn simply became collateral damage regardless of which ‘side’ actually raped and killed her.
War, indeed, is heartless in that way. :(
That picture is totally staged.
What combatant will wear RED that huge in the middle of their chests?
djb,
if the photo is recent (after the rape/slay of his daughter), it only shows how callous he is. with the violation of her daughter and the slaying afterwards, no father would have the composure to face a camera or a photographer without any trace of horrendous outrage.
i would surmise that the photo was a stock photo not taken after the news of her daughter’s gruesome fate.
any father with young daughters would feel the outrage.
The Marxist ideology was and is a bankrupt
ideology. Look at the status of North Korea
and Cuba. China became a market economy. Same
as Vietnam. Look at the economies of those countries.
Hard core Marxists are brainwashed of the
Proletariat Revolution that does not work. Throwing
away your life to some misguided ideology is the
worse that you can do with your life.
granted, rebel movement with communist ideology is passe.
question then : why does it not go away?
possible answer : it’s not really so much about ideology itself that is fuelling the rebellion but the socio economic injustice experienced by those who chose to bear arms against a system that does not offer any chance at improving their socio-economic condition.
suggestion to joma sison et.al. :
do away with the ideology, relinguish leadership of the movement because you are not being effective anymore. let us have a rebellion in the mold that was started by bonifacio instead.
It wont go away because our leaders are busy
emptying the national treasury. Most are busy
giving importance on themselves.
So, the Marxist ideology seems to be a better
alternative.
If your read about the Russian Revolution. You
can see the sufferings of the Russian people.
How they were deceived by such ideology by Lenin,
Trosky, Stalin…etc. It created a new breed of
Marxist Aristocrats, much like those Fuedal
Aristocrats in the Middle Ages. So, it is a
deceptive and deceitful ideology. Much like
politicians with empty slogans. But cannot
deliver.
Those rebels collect Revolutionary Taxes. The
movement became a Mafia Type, protection racket
movement. People who needs jobs can join the
movement and share the racket funds.
The Mafia has a Family Type organization. It has
to be welded shut by its members thru the Omerta
or no tell code.If you break the code. The enforcer will whack your brains out by a 22 caliber pistol.
Mafia also takes care of their members and their
families. Only the crime mob demands unquestioned loyalty, or death.
Filipino communists are slow on the brain, or they are not into keeping up with current events. The leftists of Latin America are showing the way.
The mantra “—For the Greater Good!!!” is excellent slogan — just look at how the various churches have used it. The ambitious among the Filipino :neutral: leftists can get themselves into Malacanang (and the perks of power — namely money!!!!) by getting into Politics :evil:. Just look at Hugo Chavez now sliding into “President for :idea: Life”, and check out what is happening in El Salvador.
After reading this Op-Ed, it occurred to me that there is no new genre at all. Its all the same old propaganda from the left, military, masses, and elite.
And FYI, this is one time I believed in a priest.
http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/letterstotheeditor/view/20090309-193044/Still-the-same-30-years-on
Poor Philippines! Everyone seems to be clueless.
JCC,
The caption implies this photo was taken during the “rare interview” that was so graciously granted by Mr. NPA Commander. There is only one explanation for appearing in combat gear at such a “rare interview”–which was really a memorial service for his daughter. It probably means that “Rebelyn” herself may have been an “enemy combatant” and may have been actively aiding her father and the insurgency. He was honoring his child-warrior. At 20, a person does not willingly use the name Rebelyn without some consent as to its implications. This does not excuse how she may have died, which we don’t really know much about. But that is how I interpret coming to your daughter’s memorial service press conference in full battle gear. It’s also a statement that he will continue holding cell sites hostage in the name of the People, and torching them in her memory.
It’s a dire warning to others who have daughters.
PDI has put on the front page the unconfirmed, unverified claim of an active rebel and insurgent that “military agents” were responsible for the murder and rape of “Rebelyn”. But for all we know, she was about to turn on the rebel movement and he killed her himself. It would not be the first time that the Revolution ate its own children. The deadliest of the ahente paranoia that swept through the insurgent movement in the 80s and 90s killed more seepeepee-enpeek-ay cadre than Marcos ever did! At least he mainly tortured and killed the top leadership, not knowing of course that the small fry would be done in by paranoiac comrades.
Live by the Sword. Die by the Sword. It’s a bitter lesson.
I think Ding has just mentioned what could solved the vicious Bocobian puzzle on media sensationalization or propaganda in the context of how it serves to breach the journalist’s Code of Ethics, how it may even violate the freedom of the press itself, and to train the voices that come from so-called Chorus from the Echo Chamber.
And it is that simple.
Said Ding, “This is really par for the course because ultimately it is how the message receivers interpret the message and how they will be swayed by it, positively or negatively.”
Now, it is clear. Whatever mainstream media publish or broadcast, it cuts both ways in so far as readers are concerned. The whole myth of something is said to have been hyped, been sensationalized, propagandized falls flat as mere claim.
To hell with claims.
“What combatant will wear RED that huge in the middle of their chests?”
The better to see ya, my dear.
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