BBC’s yellow journalismBy SASS ROGANDO SASOT“THE President’s rule is increasingly authoritarian. With four more years in power, the future of democracy here is looking bleak,” concluded Howard Johnson, BBC’s Philippine correspondent, in his apocalyptic documentary on the current and future state of our country’s democracy. Employing yellow journalism tactics, Johnson, just like another BBC correspondent, Jonathan Head, doesn’t report facts but fully engages in partisan politics. BBC has always been biased against Duterte, and Johnson is simply toeing his company’s established narrative about the state of Philippine politics. In “Leila de Lima: The woman dares to defy Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte,” Head wrote a glowing profile of de Lima.

Source: Manila Times December 12, 2018 16:18 UTC