Local media as source
Posted on March 23, 2007 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Eduardo Pontaoe
23 Mar 2007
Mr. Bulatao,
Let me respond to what you posted in one single stroke to conserve time and space. I audit checked carefully what you wrote up and I came to the conclusion that it’s full of speculations tantamount of being sexed-up. Your post on the 18th where you downloaded your limpid argument that the Agbayanis are power hungry individuals is the most brazen I have seen in the Forum. Your deep contempt for Victor’s performance at Urduja without proper verification and complete disregard to self respect and even accusing him as an absentee landlord, showed the frivolousness of your inference and your huge mistake not keeping your eyes on the ball.
Absentee landlord? Are you sure? Or you misinterpreted a lessee from a landlord. And going to Urduja, what do you want from the governor? This is your uproar…the 22nd… in not finding him available when you wanted an immediate attention. Not because of his gubernatorial performance but your obsession for something personal.
Looking and begging for a morsel of bureaucracy, Mr. Bulatao? Well, living in America has its advantages…the whole kit and caboodle. But, your exultations as a taxpayer you blundered in your misguided assumption that Filipinos here don’t pay taxes in the Philippines.
However, it wouldn’t give you the monopoly of attention. How’s $600 dollars a year sounds to you? That’s how much I pay the government in real estate taxes but I don’t flaunt it…like you do… because it’s my duty and obligation though I never live there. Will it give me the right to fire at every candidate that crossed my line of sight like Lambino? I truly believe I do.
Let’s proceed to the crème de la crème. Your post on the 22nd is the most outrageous comment you’d done in your denial that the media is not a reliable source of information. This is where the contradictions came in…the skeleton-in-the-closet kind of your character. You said on the 22nd and I quote verbatim, “Media is not a good enough source to base your comments on. You should be where the action is. The problem with the media is that most of the time only the bad things are talked about”. You said on the 18th, “If something fishy is done to these projects by the next governor expose it to the media. Write to the Sunday Punch. It’s that simple”.
Aha…Señor Bulatao! Where have you been, amigo? If you're drinkin' try Johnny Blue. As everybody can peruse of what everybody put forward in the Forum, all the info are taken from newspapers like The Sunday Punch and the Sun Star if we are dealing with local issues. Besides, anyone pretty well knows what’s written in the media for the consumer, you need analysis sometimes to see the real meaning.
News reporting is like a two sided coin. To see the whole, you have to know what’s the other side looks like. As simple as that.
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