Media’s word choice and the government’s war on drugs

Before government communicators lay the blame again on the media, foreign or local, it should be clearly understood and remembered by all that it was not the media that triggered all the talk about killings in President Duterte’s war on drugs.

We find it important to say this in view of the Malacanang uproar over the front- page banner story of the Paris daily, Liberation, in its October 7th issue, which depicted and labeled President Rodrigo Duterte as a “serial killer president” in light of his drug war.