Time has a way of teaching you the lessons you missed when they were first taught to you, right? I’ve found myself staring out of windows a few times, wondering what went wrong and what I could have done differently and how else I could communicate what I think people need to understand. In the few years since our democracy started to decline, I’ve been in a constant rage, wanting to both embrace and destroy this heathen generation that can’t seem to recognize its own good.
Tags: Philippine journalism
Lethal mix
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Journalists and politicians have always had an uneasy, troubled, and troubling relationship, whether in those countries that are, or which claim to be democracies, and even in dictatorships. But in this country where politics rules both during and between elections, the relationship has sometimes been lethal. The…
What Manong means to us
Read also: Antonio Zumel @ 80, He never wrote 30 Saluting a great revolutionary, writer and editor Antonio Zumel By Ina Alleco Silverio Bulatlat.com MANILA — All writers including journalists are said to have influences. Some writers are inspired by novelists who produce best-sellers that sell thousands of copies and are reviewed in the New…
Mensahe sa Magtatapos ng Kursong Peryodismo
Huwag mong isiping may kailangan kang patunayan sa iyong sarili. Mas mahalagang isaalang-alang ang publikong makikinabang sa iyong paggampan ng peryodismo sa tunay na esensiya nito – ang makabuluhang paghubog ng opinyon at pagkilos para sa pagbabago. NI DANILO ARAÑA ARAO Konteksto / Pinoy Weekly Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 11, April 20-26, 2008…
The Human Security Act and Philippine Journalism
With the HSA, the government has redefined, even if unintentionally, the tenet of objectivity in journalism. The powers-that-be have created a condition in the mass media that discourages an exhaustive research on issues and concerns by limiting the sources of information to those who are not in the terrorist list. BY DANILO ARAÑA ARAO Philippine…