A FRIEND of mine asked me to write a rejoinder to an article being written by Marites Vitug with the title: "Seeing Red: In counterinsurgency, Philippine military shifts from hearts to minds campaign to disinformation." Immediately I said yes, with pleasure, especially since I find her thesis unacceptable. I have no way of knowing how Ms. Vitug will argue in her dissertation but definitely to say that we are in the business of disinformation is totally detestable.

I must admit though that I wouldn't know where to start. Is it about the alleged disinformation on this Alcadev and Save our School network issue on Chad Booc and the rescued Indigenous Peoples children in the University of San Carlos-Talamban, Cebu? Is it about Philippine Daily Inquirer's Tech Tupas report on the two Aetas whom she alleged were forced to eat human feces by soldiers? Is it the "Bloody Sunday" and the killing of alleged farmers? Is it the "Baras Five" who they alleged to be farmers? Or the three alleged Surigao farmers? I really wouldn't know.

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