#Eleksyon2016: Social / media bias

I’m ready to throw in the towel, concede to the fact that while we celebrate our freedom to think, and that we are the social media capital of Asia, that we are not using any of our freedoms to actually think, blinded as we are by our biases that are slowly being revealed to be premised solely on our social class (i.e., our wealth, or lack thereof), our comforts, the status quo, as fed by mainstream media that seek only profit and ratings and online hits.

One knows this because of how media and the public have handled the presidential debates, how we’re all handling the elections, not looking at candidates’ track records anymore but only at spin and press releases, not discussing issues at all, much less programs and platforms.