The Philippine Yellow Journalism and the Media Crisis
A meme is a an amusing photo that contains funny and yet profoundideas or messages posted and shared on the internet. Some are hilarious and some are way too serious. It is a one way to denounce a certain allegations. In the amidst of the media crisis, netizens used a meme to counteract the inaccurate news published by the corporate media about the SEAGAMES to discredit the current administration. This meme is being used by netizens to express their dismay on the media behind the fake news. Every one knows what memes are but the veteran Journalist Maria Ressa fell for it and took it seriously.
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The meme posted on social media that triggered Maria Ressa |
Manila, Philippines - Veteran Journalist and Rapper's CEO to her Twitter account to unleash her wrath towards a photo being used as a meme that is shared on social media. The meme was all about the medal tally of the different news agencies with their respective positions in the fake news category and Rappler ranks number one. Everyone knows it was for fun but conveys a significant meaning. According to Ressa, the meme is use as a trick to discredit Journalist and too far from reality that misled many. " Like when it started 3 years ago, the target is to discredit journalists and news organization. Like using tricks like this - completely untethered to reality to reality ( fake banner added is ours ) but able to mislead and erode trust for so many" Posted by Maria Ressa on her Twitter account on November 28.
There's alot of response on this tweet condemning her for denying the fact that it was Rappler who made a malicious news about serving pork to the Muslim athletes that was later on debunked. Ressa denied that Rappler published such misleading articles though angry netizens posted a screenshot of published articles by Rappler that Muslim athletes were served pork dishes.
Ressa superimposed a caption " fake " on the said meme. It was so funny that everyone knows that it was just a meme - a hilarious way to convey dismay on the allegations made by the different news agencies. There is no medal race for the different corporate news agencies for making fake news. It is a satirical way to combat malicious and inaccurate news. But she is pretty accurate in one aspect, the Philippine media can't be trusted anymore. It is more of sensationalism rather than responsible Journalism.
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