IT's been more than a week since Cathy Binag, former partner of Antonio Floirendo, disclosed in a widely watched YouTube channel of popular "vlogger" Maharlika that the banana magnate's close friend, now President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., was a regular cocaine user. Binag disclosed that Marcos even had a small circle of friends — that included billionaire Iñigo Zobel and now Special Assistant to the President Antonio Lagdameo Jr. — who regularly had cocaine-snorting sessions, even at the Marcoses' Forbes Park mansion.
Yet Philippine mainstream media, mainly the six big Manila-based broadsheets and tabloids, as well as the biggest broadcast outfits and the US-funded internet-only news outfit have totally ignored this explosive story that reveals the character not only of President Marcos but also his innermost circle of friends since his college days. Mainstream media have not published nor broadcast a single news article, not a single opinion column.
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