Blog EntryFilipino News for your Entertainment NeedsApr 9, '08 10:36 AM
for everyone

If any of you subscribed to filipino channel thru cable, it may have crossed your mind that every news you hear from the Philippines is rehashed bad news.  I'm maybe exaggerating but I just couldn't ignore this observation while TV patrol is reporting about food crisis thru an interview with a common folk saying how hard it is to stretch their 300 pesos in the market place.  Filipinos have this flair of rhetoric that piques the emotion of its fellowmen.  I have seen these kinds of interviews so many times even when I was still in Manila.  The only difference is, I did not really care back then than I have now because I have grown tired of it.  Real time drama on daily news can be addicting as well as pathetic especially when it goes over and over again. 

Sure they say they want to show the truth, but the truth has many sides of the story.  But sadly, we only see certain sides of the truth.  One example is the kudeta incident in Manila Peninsula last year.  I was worried when I've seen the news but after talking to my friends and loved ones at home, they say it is just a farce.  I do not know anymore if this is just a mere government’s deficiency to contain the situation or media’s efficiency to show their side of the story.

So my point is this: cut to the chase and give the facts straight.  You are not helping the country but adding drama to the situation.  News should not be entertaining, it should be informative and unbiased. 


nezgcruz wrote on Apr 9
this is what they call "corporate media brainwashing"... thru these news, they will condition the minds of the viewers to feel afraid, to be always live in fear and to induce lack of confidence and self esteem... in this way, their products and other forms of business will flourish... only oligarchs related to the media industry has the full control of the minds of the people...

this is not just sheer "entertain-news" there's more to it... youtube search: "capitalist conspiracy"

i'm not being activist or something, but we must open our eyes and start to not let ourselves fooled by these...
taraytina wrote on Apr 10
hay...the real talk should be, population control. the natural resources isn't just enough to support the bloated population.
monicai wrote on Apr 11
hay...the real talk should be, population control. the natural resources isn't just enough to support the bloated population.
Off-topic, I read somewhere that there was a public speaker who said to solve the over-population problem, the government put electricity in rural areas that doesn't have any because it prevents them to do the one thing they can only do in the dark.

Going back to your comment, that is another way to solve the problem but how can you move out the extra people off the current load? Even the food supply today cannot food the population we had today even if GMA makes a nationwide ban on baby-making. hehehe.
monicai wrote on Apr 11
this is what they call "corporate media brainwashing"... thru these news, they will condition the minds of the viewers to feel afraid, to be always live in fear and to induce lack of confidence and self esteem... in this way, their products and other forms of business will flourish... only oligarchs related to the media industry has the full control of the minds of the people...

this is not just sheer "entertain-news" there's more to it... youtube search: "capitalist conspiracy"

i'm not being activist or something, but we must open our eyes and start to not let ourselves fooled by these...
that is why i stopped watching it. i'd settle with the discovery travel and living channel muna.
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