President Marcos Jr.’s invocation of the media as a “bearer of facts” within a context of global conflict and perceived misinformation taps into a classic, and arguably, perpetually failing, narrative: the heroic, selfless media acting as a bulwark against chaos. This relies heavily on the ARC-0043 Motte-and-Bailey strategy – presenting a seemingly reasonable demand (“be the bearers of facts”) while simultaneously creating a narrative of a world drowning in deception. The citation of the World P...