EVEN people who prefer truth over lies and fact over fiction mostly abstain from reacting to state-sponsored propaganda because selling the good points of government is a legitimate undertaking of governance.
Public funds pay for the operations of the government information offices, a multimedia information complex in the specific case of the Philippines, and taxpayers don't mind the cost. Keep your peace and don't mind the propaganda overload, which are the general but unspoken rules on how to react to state propaganda.Of course, the general public has only one requirement: there are thresholds and lines that should not be crossed.
On the same day the newspapers carried Bordey's glowing forecast on the country's final liberation from the embarrassing cycle as the world's top or second-biggest rice importer, the front pages of the newspapers also ran stories on a scheduled rise in fuel prices and the decision of the MWSS to cut the water pressure for Metro Manila.
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