President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. urged the media to continue helping the public understand the government’s ongoing reforms, saying many of the changes are difficult to explain to ordinary citizens who are not focused on structural issues.
The President thanked journalists, particularly members of the Malacañang Press Corps, for their role in communicating complex policies over the past three and a half years, emphasizing that the administration needs the media as a partner in informing the public.
“So I thank all the members of the Malacañang press corps, because you have been there with us all the way. And this is not an easy thing to explain to the average citizen because they’re not concerned about structural change and ideological ideas. They are just concerned about their everyday lives,” President Marcos told members of the MPC on Wednesday.
President Marcos revealed irregularities in flood control and infrastructure projects during his July 28, 2025 Fourth State of the Nation Address, prompting the investigation and filing of charges against some individuals implicated in the abuse of public funds.
The President acknowledged that not everyone will agree with the reforms. Still, the government must work on it and continue communicating clearly despite the political noise.
The President highlighted the value of journalistic experience, saying reporters develop deep knowledge and insight after years of covering government, cultivating sources, and studying national issues.
The President emphasized that such informed reporting is crucial at a time when irresponsible content and conspiracy theories online are gaining equal visibility.
“Fake news has taken too much of the space. In the beginning, we thought it was funny, it was entertaining, but now it’s become damaging. And that is something that we have to be concerned about,” President Marcos said.
“And that’s why I’m saying we need your help. The government needs the help of all the media to try and explain to people that you have to be more discerning about what you read and what you believe and what you take on.”
The President appealed to journalists to help strengthen media literacy by encouraging people to be more discerning about the information they consume.
“It is not an easy challenge but we have to continue to try and do it because it is important that people know the truth, the people know what is happening, that the people are not led into these crazy mind games people have been playing without any connection anymore to reality,” the President emphasized. ( PCO-PND)
Major Surgery (The President’s Message)
From the words of the President on an excerpt of his message to the Malacanang Press Corps today December 4,2025 goes“ And when you must excise a cancer out of such a complicated system, you need to do some very major surgery. And to do that, when you do that, you will bleed. And that is what we had to go through. We had to go through that. And I am sorry that people suffered because of it, but it had to be done…
The President was right, and it is going to be a major surgery and thus, it is a major pain.
Speaking in front of the Malacanang Press Corps and in the presence of the nation’s cabinet, the President in blue open buttoned shirt was a bit sad yet fairly upbeat as he humbly accepts and say that Jon Bon Jovi line this Romeo is bleeding, but you can see his blood …
The President can never be more right in saying that it’s going to be a major surgery, uncomfortable, painful, and demoralizing.
Yet, it is not a just a metaphor nor any figure of speech, it is an excruciating process and that the President should be commended by addressing the elephant in the room, corruption, thievery to the highest levels, beyond the imagination of normal Juans who can barely smile in the face of yet another Typhoon and yet another flooding expected even as we speak.
He added that so, we must go through, go through that pain, go through difficulty, go through the anguish that the country is going through now. But we are Filipinos. We may be bleeding now, but we will also heal very, very quickly.
The last line is a wish and the lines before that are real, we are bleeding and the Filipinos are feeling the pain, that should be a mouthful already. We are facing uncertainty as a nation and hemorrhaging on the inside, because most of our leaders had gone berserk with their greed.
And in an optimistic tune, President BBM said So, I hope that once we go through this, and I know it will be done, once we go through this, that we will be able to look back on this and say, ‘Okay, mahirap iyong nangyari pero kailangan gawin at worth it iyong dusa na pinagdaanan natin para sa naging resulta.’ That is what we are hoping for. There is very little time to do it, but I really think, I mean, if we work 24/7 like we always have, I think we can do it.
We must rally for the President and the country and for our own sake as well. I pray we will survive the night to see the light of day!