Political doublespeak: omission, diversion and confusion, characterized President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s first full year in office.
VERA Files fact checked 116 statements of public figures from Jan. 16 to Dec. 2, 2023, of which 21 came from Marcos. More than half of his claims lacked context, were flip-flops, or misleading.
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On doublespeak
- William Lutz, Beyond Nineteen Eighty-Four: Doublespeak in a Post-Orwellian Age (1989), Accessed Dec. 12, 2023
- Doris Minin-White, Political Speech, Doublespeak, And Critical-Thinking Skills In American Education (2017), Accessed Dec. 12, 2023
- Alexander C. Walker, Martin Harry Turpin, Ethan A. Meyers, Jennifer A. Stolz, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, Derek J. Koehler, Controlling the narrative: Euphemistic language affects judgments of actions while avoiding perceptions of dishonesty (2021), Accessed Dec. 12, 2023
ABS-CBN News, Marcos on PH inflation: Rate of increase slowing, Jan. 6, 2023
Philippine Statistics Authority, Press Conference on December 2022 Inflation, Jan. 4, 2023
RTVMalacañang, Courtesy Call of US-ASEAN Business Council (Speech) 08/09/2023, Aug. 9, 2023
House of Representatives, FY 2024 Budget Briefings (Committee) DBCC: DBM, NEDA, DOF, BSP (Part 2), Aug. 10, 2023
RTVMalacañang, Kadiwa ng Pasko Caravan in Quezon City (Speech) 12/01/2022, Dec. 1, 2022
RTVMalacañang, MOA Signing: Establishment of KADIWA ng Pangulo in LGUs Nationwide (Speech) 07/17/2023, July 17, 2023
Wikimedia Commons, File:San Leonardo, Nueva Ecija rice fields, April 7, 2008
RTVMalacañang, Arrival Statement from Participation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland 01/21/2023, Jan. 21, 2023
RTVMalacañang, The 2023 State of the Nation Address, July 24, 2023
People’s Television Network, WATCH: President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. visits a COVID-19 vaccination site at Pasig City Sports Center | August 1, 2022 | By PTV | Facebook, Aug. 1, 2022
People’s Television Network, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. answers questions from the media, Nov. 24, 2023
RTVMalacañang, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. answers questions from the media…, Aug. 7, 2023
Center for Strategic and International Studies, A Conversation with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines, May 4, 2023
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