The so-called mosquito press in the years before Marcos’ fall refers to the anti-dictatorship newspapers that broke that regime’s tight hold on information. These ranged from left-leaning publications to college newsletters to weeklies such as intrepid Eugenia Apostol’s Mr. & Ms. (initially a lifestyle magazine) and Jose Burgos’ We Forum. (Mrs. Apostol would set up the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Dec. 9, 1985.)
Ironically, it was Marcos who inadvertently invented the term when he referred to these papers as “merely irritating like mosquitoes.” They had miniscule circulations, but their anti-Marcos articles were disseminated widely among the middle and upper classes through what was called Xerox journalism.
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