Epistemic Injustice and anti-media populism in the Philippines

• Main Author: Tubera, Kurt Christian B
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2024
• Subjects: Journalism—Political aspects—Philippines; Epistemics; Justice; Populism—Philippines; Discrimination in mass media; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_philo/12; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etdb_philo/article/1026/viewcontent/2024_Tubera_Epistemic_Injustice_and_Anti_media_Populism_in_the_Philippines_Full_text.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Anti-media populism—a form of populism that emphasizes elite hostility towards the media—is an understudied case in the Philippines. Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, which is widely argued in the literature as performative of an anti-media populist leadership, silenced three media outlets: (1) ABS-...