I am sure that in the past there were times of long duration when the mass media called the attention of the American public to the Philippines, like when the US was justifying and carrying out its war of aggression against the Filipino people from 1899 onwards, when the Japanese fascists pushed the US out of the Philippines at the start of World War II and the US reconquered the Philippines in 1945 and when the US-propped Marcos fascist dictatorship was in the process of being overthrown.
MATAPOS ideklara ni Hen. Emilio F. Aguinaldo ang burges-liberal na kasarinlan ng bansa noong Hunyo 12, 1898 sa balkonahe ng kanyang mansiyon sa Kawit, Kabite -- makaraang makalaya sa kolonyalismong Kastila -- at nang luminaw ang gahamang layunin ng Amerikang sakupin at pagsamantalahan ang Pilipinas, marami agad ang bumalimbing sa uring ilustrado't elitista, ipinagkanulo ang kapakanan ng masa, pinagtaksilan ang pambansang soberanya, at naging garapalang Amerikanista.