Kabanata VII (Chapter 7) : Reportage Analysis
- Joshmine Reanne Castaño
- Feb 3, 2021
- 3 min read
Updated: Mar 25, 2021
1) Duterte red-tags Zarate, progressive groups in insult-laden tirade (Rappler)
a) Who owns each publication? What are their political and/or business connections and interests?
- The founder of Rappler is Rappler Holdings Corporation consists of; Maria Ressa, Cheche Lazaro, Glenda Gloria, Chay Hofileña, Lilibeth Frondoso, Gemma Mendoza, Marites Dañguilan Vitug, Raymund Miranda, Manuel Ayala, and Nico Nolledo. Almost of the owners were previous employees of different networks like CNN, ABS-CBN and other newspaper publishing companies like Business World.
- One of their owners, Maria Ressa, was arrested for cyber libel due to accusation that Rappler published fake news story about businessman Wilfredo Keng last February 3, 2019 and founded guilty for having an outspoken critic of President Rodrigo Duterte last June 15,2020.
b) Main Focus of the Article
- The article focuses on how allegedly President Rodrigo Duterte ‘red-tags’ Carlos Zarate without having enough proof of judgment of his accusations. Duterte claimed that the progressive groups that represents the House of Representatives are part of a grand conspiracy. The article also showed that Duterte insisted that they were all legal fronts of Communist Party of the Philippines and are co-conspirators of the New People's Army.
c) Why was the article written in such a way?
- Based on the previous issues of Rappler for having an outspoken critic of Rodrigo Duterte, the network must have their own way of providing truth to their audiences through transparency and vulgarity. I think they are somewhat throwing shade to Duterte for having accusations against Zarate without having an enough evidence to support his claims.
2) Duterte tells leftwing groups: ‘We are not red-tagging you, we are identifying you as communist fronts’ (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
a) Who owns each publication? What are their political and/or business connections and interests?
- The founders of Philippine Daily Inquirer are Eugenia D. Apostol, Betty Go Belmonte, Max Soliven.
- Apostol and Soliven were previous publisher of a catholic newspaper called The Sentinel and Belmonte was the daughter of Go Puan Seng who owned a Filipino-Chinese Newspaper called The Fookien Times in 1927.
b) Main Focus of the Article
- The article focuses on Duterte not red-tagging Zarate but identifying them as communist fronts. The article later on discussed about the other things that Duterte said during the said meeting.
c) Why is the article written in such a way?
- The article was written in that way to tell a story about Duterte not red-tagging Zarate and other things he mentioned. It is a way for their readers to be aware of what happened during the said meeting.
3) Duterte: Makabayan, Bayan in Red conspiracy to oust gov't (GMA News)
a) Who owns each publication? What are their political and/or business connections and interests?
- The GMA News and Public Affairs is a programming division of GMA Network Inc. The founder of GMA Network Inc. is Robert “Uncle Bob” Stewart.
- He was a war respondent of United Press that came to the Philippines in 1943. He first established a radio station that later on expands to television and called it RBS TV Channel 7. The RBS TC and Radio Stations was forced closed during the Martial Law in 1974 and later on changed its name to GMA Network in 1975.
b) Main Focus of the Article
- The focus of the article is what happened during the meeting where Duterte accused Zarate as a member of Communist Party and not red-tagging him but identifying him as a part of grand conspiracy and later on asked Zarate of his side of the said accusations.
c) Why is the article written in such a way?
- The article was written fairly telling the side of the President Duterte and the side of Zarate as well who was accused of being a member of CPP that later on he denied. Also, it didn’t just focused on what Duterte said during the meeting but also interviewed the activists, Gabriela Women’s Party’s Arlene Brosas and their opinion of the government administration that focuses on preparing for the Senate hearing wherein they should focus on helping in the government's response efforts to the onslaught of Super Typhoon Rolly.
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