{"id":6387,"date":"2015-03-23T10:01:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T02:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2015-03-23T10:01:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T02:01:54","slug":"repostthe-case-for-a-state-owned-newspaper-in-the-philippines-the-society-of-honor-by-joe-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/23\/repostthe-case-for-a-state-owned-newspaper-in-the-philippines-the-society-of-honor-by-joe-america\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::The case for a State-owned newspaper in the Philippines &#124; The Society of Honor by Joe America"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We have a situation in the Philippines where the nation\u2019s\u00a0Fourth Estate, its popular media, are not fulfilling the vital role of fairly and accurately informing the public about what is happening. Indeed, they contribute to a form of hysterical tyranny. Even\u00a0lead media outlets like the Daily Inquirer or ABS-CBN television\u00a0give the news tabloid treatment that favors one political agenda over another.<br \/>\nIt is the way \u201cjournalism\u201d reporting is done in the Philippines. Conflict is featured and hyped. Sensational headlines\u00a0are penned with little regard as to who is harmed by inaccurate words. The well-being of the Philippines, which is what ethics are designed to protect, is\u00a0ignored. Complaints and anger accordingly run deep. Incidents are not framed in balanced and information-rich articles.<br \/>\nIs it any wonder why\u00a0Filipinos are down on their nation even as the Philippines rises?<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/joeam.com\/2015\/03\/22\/the-case-for-a-state-owned-newspaper-in-the-philippines\/#comment-114913\">The case for a State-owned newspaper in the Philippines | The Society of Honor by Joe America<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a situation in the Philippines where the nation\u2019s\u00a0Fourth Estate, its popular media, are not fulfilling the vital role of fairly and accurately informing the public about what is happening. Indeed, they contribute to a form of hysterical tyranny. Even\u00a0lead media outlets like the Daily Inquirer or ABS-CBN television\u00a0give the news tabloid treatment that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/23\/repostthe-case-for-a-state-owned-newspaper-in-the-philippines-the-society-of-honor-by-joe-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::The case for a State-owned newspaper in the Philippines &#124; The Society of Honor by Joe America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,65,66,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-philippines","category-politics","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}