SUMMARY
Angela Bofill, my generation’s senti icon, passed away at the age of 70 last week. Her songs’ lasting stirrings in our hearts reverberated on the Rappler site; her death was the most read story on the day we published it on Saturday, June 15. “Break it to me gently,” crooned a Bofill classic for those whose loves have started embracing others.
But there is no breaking it gently when it comes to hard-nosed investigations that jolt us back to reality. Published on Friday, June 14, a Reuters story reminded us that the US military, like its counterparts from the so-called axis of evil, is neither incapable of disinformation nor unskilled in propaganda. What did Reuters find out?
I think we need not spell out the core lessons that could be derived from this story given the current…