... feel a philosophical affinity. Unfortunately, it remains to be a widespread belief that one of the most effective and quickest methods of influencing the press is the corruption of the media via direct and indirect bribery. The rules of the news-making game are not written but they do become clearer in the day-to-day process of newsmaking. They are always centered ... for the images the politicians project. The earliest written accounts of politicians massaging journalists? egos and pockets go back to the 1950's. Rene Constantino's :The State of the Philippine Press? quotes as,If we are...

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