The Philippine Collegian

I've always known the Philippine Collegian to be biased to the left but they've shown time and time again that they cannot be trusted. Them and their allies cannot do anything wrong and if they are arrested, they cry wolf again and again without giving the whole story.

The latest of these allegations involve a group called Panday Sining. If you were to believe the Collegian, four of their members were illegally arrested while they were "making art". The charges are mentioned but only in passing but they always stress how aggressive the police were. The silence on this matter is very troubling and is actually a huge red flag for FAKE NEWS.

You see, an unbiased eye to the incident would at the very least include the statement of the police on the matter. A simple, "When asked why the Panday Sining activists were treated so roughly, the police merely responded _________," would have been sufficient to make the article a more well rounded article. The Collegian does mention the charges (vandalism) but they fail to show that this was an unjust arrest. Their conclusion right away is that the police merely want to silence the activists and that their rights were infringed upon. They even have their own hashtag, #StopTheAttacks

The Collegian doesn't even post this art as it would clearly show these activists were in fact guilty of vandalism. Photos surfaced in other news sources which show the vandalism done by these "artists".

Let me preface this by admitting that I may well be duped into thinking this was done by the artists and it could possibly be the case that they never had a hand in doing this at all! But weeks have passed and the Collegian is still very silent and refuses to publish pictures of these "works of art" by Panday Sining that I find it very much more probable that they were behind these vandals.

I seems that the Collegian as a whole seems to defend these vandals with every post they make. When they include words like, "to create murals and OTHER PROTEST MATERIALS depicting their critique ..." they've successfully conflated artistic murals with common vandalism and they expect everyone to believe their story.

I know the Collegian can be very dishonest in their reporting so I'll have to fill in the blanks to explain the policemen's "brutal" behavior. The most reasonable explanation I can derive is that these vandals were stopped by policemen and tried to make a run for it thus the policemen had to use some force in apprehending the vandals.

It's clear from the Collegian's framing of any issue lately, that they try to paint members of their side in as positive a light as possible and the the police/army in as negative a light as possible. As such, I need to blacken their whites and whiten their blacks to get a better view of the truth.

Such is the sad case of the Philippine Collegian.