Media infiltrated by communists?
According to national security adviser Norberto Gonzales, the media have been infiltrated by members of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People’s Army (NPA).
“It is a normal practice of rebel movements to recruit media personalities because propaganda is an important component of their effort to propagate whatever they (communists) are engaged in,” Gonzales told a news forum last August 21.
“So it’s normal that they are going to get elements from the media to be their members and we know that there are,” he added.
Gonzalez, however, declined to name names of CPP and NPA members in media. “Let us not talk how many…That (propaganda) does not involve numbers (of infiltrators) but on how effective they are able to smuggle to media what they want,”he said.
It is not the first time that the government had claimed that there are communists working as journalists. Last year, the military came out with a briefing compact disc (CD) titled “Knowing the Enemy,” which allegedly named the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) as two of several “fronts” of the CPP and NPA. Philippine Daily Inquirer reporter Fe Zamora wrote about the issue for PJR Reports. The story, entitled “Who’s the Enemy?” was published in the April 2005 issue of the PJR Reports.
What are your thoughts about it? Feel free to comment.
My thoughts? This is bullshit.