NARRATIVE REPORT

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PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION

Correa, Trixy Mae B.

BSAIS 1st Year

In today generation, Filipino youth were more became lazy that’s why Senator De Lima
addressed this issue?

According to Senator De Lima, the youth do not have any plans of even seeking for
employment on higher education but spend all their time on social media such as Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram and etc. This can spread malicious information about her.

“I understand they want to support their leader. Yes, I have no problem but you don’t
spend all your precious time circulating bad information about me while you could have used
that to work. This is a complete laziness” – De Lima said.

Series of fake reports have been circulating online about the senator with some
recommending that she has resigned from her post. She has consequently credited the situation to
laziness among the youth of the country.

She was apparently thrown out of a Berlin Conference Hall, slapped by her arch nemesis,
the secretary of justice, and pole-danced for a high-profile convict. Queen Elizabeth purportedly
congratulated the Senate for ousting her, while former United State President Barack Obama
even called her “abnormal” for standing firm against the Duterte administration’s drug war.

These are just some of the things that Sen. Leila de Lima, among lawmakers most
frequently attacked on social media, learned about herself online in the seeming parallel universe
of fake news.

Alarmed at the “deliberate” escalation and deceptive power of false reports, Sen. Leila de
Lima called on Tuesday for an inquiry into the spread of untruths online, noting that the
deliberate spread of such stories have destroyed reputations, threatened families, damaged
political careers and endangered the freedom of choice.

“I am here to say enough is enough,” said De Lima, citing hurtful false stories that have
targeted not just herself but her family.
 “I am fortunate to have the strength to stand up and defend myself, but my relatives and
family members who have done nothing to deserve being at the receiving end of these lies should
not have to be obliged to even acknowledge these lies. More importantly, I will not stand here
and wait for them to invent hurtful and damaging rumors about my special child, Israel, or my
ailing mother,” De Lima said.

In a privilege speech, De Lima expressed support for separate resolutions that Senators
Antonio Trillanes IV and Francis Pangilinan earlier filed also seeking a legislative investigation
into the spread of fake news.

“People’s morals are degraded by fake news, some of which thrive on plain salaciousness
o kabastusan at kalaswaan. Nothing is off limits. The personal life, good name and reputation of
women, and even men, are fair game,” said De Lima.

“It’s open season for anyone who dares criticize this government, and it’s severely
skewing the moral compass of our people, not to mention our youth,” she said.

De Lima, a fierce administration critic, linked the spread of fake news to President
Duterte’s oft-changing statements. She noted his recent friendliness to China even while he
promised during the campaign that he would jetski to the disputed Spratlys to plant the
Philippine flag.

“Fake news, the outrageous, the half-truths, the outright lies, the misleading headlines,
and even the crass jokes and the profanity that accompany the President’s every appearance on
our television screens – these are all nothing but the sticks that make up the broom that this
Administration and its supporters use to sweep under the rug their crimes, their incompetencies,
their laziness, their lack of dedication to the public’s interests, their broken campaign promises,”
said De Lima.

She said addressing fake news was “a matter needing legislative attention,” saying fake
information has become a “weapon that is being wielded against the Filipino people and their
exercise of their rights.”
 The lawmaker, who has repeatedly denied drug allegations thrown against her by the
Duterte administration, called on the public to be discerning about information they get online,
and check the crediblity of their news sources.

“We are faced with the situation where there are elements in our society who are
deliberately poisoning the well of information that is readily available to the Filipino people and
to us, their public servants,” the lawmaker said.

“Every lie, every piece of fake news, every form of propaganda that is manufactured and
shared by people is like a disease or a poison that will kill everything that is good and just about
our beautiful nation. It does not matter that not everyone is fooled. It only matters that there are
people being fooled,” she said.

De Lima said false information has led to deaths, as in the case of the innocent who have
been slain in the drug war.

“I call on our people not to believe everything they hear or read; but, instead, to be
critical and to be inquisitive. Magtanong. Magmatiyag. Magsaliksik. Mag-isip. (Ask. Observe.
Research. Think.),” she said.

According to Dr. Jose Rizal, youth are the hopes of our future. And he describe that the
Filipino youth are innovative, bright, and patriotic in his time. As time passed by many thing
have been change and our Pilipino youth had become of it. Our generation is surrounded by
many influencers, especially in social media.

Anything can be instant nowadays due to advance technology. Every youth nowadays are
depending on using internet all days. It may result of faster occurrence of crime happening in our
country, by just clicking of our tumb in our smartphone. For example of this is a cyber-bullying,
where they can post anything they want just to make some fake news about someone.

There is one for sure that is not true about what De Lima said, not all the youth are lazy.
Yes, we actually depend our time just to use internet but it doesn’t mean that we are lazy.
Sometimes we can find a job for surfing in internet. Just like online shopping or something
goods for making some income.
 In this aspect of being lazy of the youth are does not exist only in young people. It may
also spreads to all in our country and therefore we cannot just accuse one particular group of
being lazy. And quite possible that the minority of young people like us who called lazy are lazy
because they only see other young people being lazy, and simply as that they believe that all of
us are the same.

This only the small minority, in many cases young people including students like me
already realise the important of education. I already understand that this point of our lives could
make life-changing happen and also affect to our future. Many of us are already taking action by
studying hard, doing extra work in order to continue our education and stay ahead. But it doesn’t
mean that just because of work is important that we should always work non-stop. We also need
to manage our actual life as well as work life to balance them correctly.

As a young people or student, I already limiting the amount of my free time to enjoy my
life and spare some time just to relax while surfing internet because it is simply to get out of it
and back into work again. I know that sometimes we are unwilling to stop doing this, but it
because the cause of due to extreme pressure to work or something about school. School and
parents are both pressure to the young people like us to expecting on us to reach for top grades
and to able succeed.

For me, the Filipino youth today are made up of those who are “woke,” that is, those who
are aware of everything that is happening around them, because of the power of social media.
The Filipino youth today are not afraid to engage and to take part at social or political issues and
are very much aware that they will be the future of our country.

We are capable of doing amazing things, we work with change. Moreover, we fight for
what is right and just. Yes, we do and say good and bad things, just like everyone else, but if you
listen and understand us, and if given more opportunity, we, the Filipino youth of today, have the
potential to bring change in our country and the world. I hope this quote from Pope Francis will
motivate us and empower us to be instruments of positive change.

The Filipino youth today are but the future of a nation standing strong amidst all the
hardships and trials, and this nation will continue to stand no matter what through the endurance
of its people.
 It actually true that sometimes we often gets deemed as lazy and unmotivated. And I
have always found these claims are confusing, as everyone I know they seems to struggle with in
their life. Some older people always commented to us how we are on our smartphones, which is
the reason they believe that we are lazy. They always believe in what they see without knowing
the why we actually do in our phones.

Although we may use different tools to accomplish our personal goals, we should prove
them that our generation should not be dismissed as lazy and undisciplined young people.