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Broadcast journalist Ted Failon with DJ Chacha during the program Radyo Singko 92.3, urged voters to vote wisely, and avoid fake news and historical revisionism on April 19, 2022.
Failon made commentaries as he explained about accepting the leader chosen by the people as long as it followed a clean election.
“Alam nyo mga kapatid, bagama’t sa bandang dulo ho ‘di ba? Kung sino man ho talaga ang pipilin, yun naman talaga ang, you know, tatanggapin natin whether you like it or not. Basta importante lang ho, malinis na halalan,” he explained.
He even emphasized that electing someone by engaging in fake news is liken to electing a fake leader.
“Pero yun nga lang ho, kapag po naghalalal tayo, ano po, nang dahil po sa mga kasinungalingan o fake news, para kana ring naghalal ng fake leader,” he revealed.
“Kapag ikaw ay nanalo dahil sa pagpapakalat ng puro kasinungalingan, at napaniwala mo sa kasinungalingan ang mga botante, at nahalala ka, nangangahulugan na peke,” he added.
“kapag naghalal tayo ng dahil sa fake news para ka na ring naghalal ng fake leader.” pic.twitter.com/JN4jnhA2pJ
— DJ Chacha (@_djchacha) April 19, 2022
Failon’s co-host DJ Chacha also shared another video on twitter on April 29 of Failon’s commentaries.
He emphasized that history exists for us to learn and that it does not just exist for us to like or dislike the way we want it.
“Ang atin pong kasaysayan ay nan didiyan hindi po para natin tangkilikin, magustuhan o hinde noh. History mga kapatid is not there for us to like or dislike. Ang kasaysayan po ay hindi nan dididyan para gustuhin mo, kamuhian mo. Yan po ay nan didiyan, para ho tayo matuto. History is there for us to learn from it,” Failon explained.
“History is, you know, history is there, walang karapatan, sino man sa atin, ikaw at ako, na baguhin ito.
“Ang kasaysayan sa Pilipinas o sa ‘tin po ng anumang bagay, panahon man ng giyera yan, o kasaysayan po ng katiwalian at korupsyon. Kasaysayan yan, nakaukit yan, ikaw at ako, walang sinuman ang may karapatan na baguhin ito,” he added emphasizing on the issue of historical revisionism.
DJ Chacha responded and sarcastically point out the sources of people in learning histories such as Tiktok and YouTube and the possibility of Failon being mocked for being better than the said two platforms.
“Anong kasaysayan Ted Failon? Mas naniniwala ako sa Tiktok. Saka sa YouTube. Pinagsasabi mong kasaysayan d’yan. Mas magaling ka pa sa nasa TikTok? Ted Failon?”
“Ang kasaysayan kahit gaano mo kinamumuhian, hindi mo mababago yan kase nakaukit yan.” – Ted Failon pic.twitter.com/yvpMLJieAq
— DJ Chacha (@_djchacha) April 28, 2022
Netizens responded and reacted to the commentaries of Failon.
A netizen emphasized that it is only in the Philippines where historical revisionism happens in favor of the Marcos family.
Only in the philippines na gusto baguhin ang history in favor sa pamilyang marcos.#NoToHistoryRevisionism#NeverAgain#MarcosMagnanakaw https://t.co/4WaaXbWz7v
— kelvin (@Khelvin25) April 30, 2022
One netizen added that we cannot change the past which serves as simple truth and deny the maltreatment of some people just because other people to justify that they felt differently.
Hindi natin puwedeng palitan ang nakaraan, yun ang simpleng katotohanan.
Walang masama kung nung kabataan ninyo ligtas at tahimik ang buhay ninyo pero hindi ibig sabihin nagsisinungaling yung mga nagutom noon at mga nawalan ng mahal sa buhay dahil abusado ang kinauukulan. https://t.co/4OfaeuyCmd
— Nina (@DesCaLyFuGE) April 29, 2022
Another netizen emphasized that if we do not learn from history, then it’s our fault.
Tama naman, history is there for us to learn, Kung Hindi tayo Natuto kasalanan natin. So wag Iboto si BBM https://t.co/Jw4DGbAwWT
— Let Leni Lead (@Mrkalboforleni) April 29, 2022
One netizen added with amusement that it’s like the support of many people from ABS-CBN to President Duterte.
https://twitter.com/twitnigab/status/1520010024915202048
