Mijares on Marcos crony Roberto Benedicto

From The Conjugal Dictatorship (Primitivo Mijares • 1976): President Marcos caused the expansion of Benedicto’s small Kanlaon Broadcasting System into a major radio-television complex. He also had Benedicto launch a daily newspaper, the “Philippines’ Daily Express”, at a circulation price under-selling existing newspapers more than 50 percent. The Benedicto tri-media aggressively mouthed the administration; all its companies paid part of the salaries of employees as “additional allowance” coming from the President’s contingent fund.