Last of 2 partsLAST Monday I wrote about how the International Criminal Court's two prosecutors' report on alleged widespread extrajudicial killings (EJKs) under President Duterte's war on illegal drugs (WoD) were to a great extent based on biased and false articles in the news website Rappler, which was dedicated to demonize the former president.
In short, it relied for its accusations on media accounts, which in a system of justice are mere hearsay, inadmissible as evidence.More than 27 percent of the sources the ICC used were from Rappler, which strived for six years now to portray Duterte as a bloody authoritarian. The ICC prosecutors swallowed hook, line and sinker that outfit's claims, even if many of these — such as their false report on number of those killed — had been incontrovertibly proven to be false.
Reuters' ubiquitous use of dozens of dramatic, obviously enhanced photos of corpses surrounded by police and of relatives of the killed wailing by their coffin, and the crafting of article titles using heart-tugging tabloidish quotes — 'Killing mosquitos' , 'Burying the truth,' 'We have to plant evidence' — certainly make for riveting reading.
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