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. Rather, the NYT piece was a well-written “hatchet job,” meaning “a fierce and malicious attack on somebody, with falsehoods mixed with truths, in order to ruin his reputation. Screaming banner storyBy publishing as its screaming banner story a foreigner’s hatchet job against the President, the PDI shames us all Filipinos. But a hatchet job written by one Richard Paddock? Editorial space prevents me from showing how the NYT piece did this.

Source: Manila Times March 23, 2017 16:18 UTC