The Implications of the Bilibid Exposure Trip to the course: Communication Arts.

The trip to Bilibid negated how the media defined the term inmate. Usually, the media would describe inmates/prisoners as big hairy tattooed people with nasty attitudes. However, this trip proved those stereotyping all wrong. In fact, how the media portrayed Bilibid prisoners as beastly was contrasted with what I saw. They, compared to the people I see everyday are more human. Unlike what I’ve seen in movies, these prisoners are as good as the people who work at churches, they value their religion, their families, their friends and their education. As a Communication Arts major, I now see how the media has deceived people, and how it was able to ruin names who in fact has sins lesser than ours, how they branded these criminals as criminals forever. The media has associated the word sinner to these criminals, but in reality all of us are sinners and some have probably sinned greater than them. Some are even innocent but have sacrificed their freedom for the ones they loved and valued. The media has used them in some ways to cover up what we, people on the outside has done. It’s like saying “until you’re not convicted, you’re good” which is not true. Seeing reality inside a prison has changed my view of what the world should be. Through my eyes and through the lens, the script, the pen and the paper I’m holding I will do my obligation to make people see what actually is happening and what and who these prisoners really are.


* Another paper for our sociology class :)