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Politicians and Television

Posted by Batuts
Sunday, June 22, 2008

Reading the articles posted on filipinovoices this morning, I noticed that almost all recent articles, or should i say all articles, were about Ces Drilon’s kidnapping and their release. Of course, no one can contest this is currently the most relevant issue to tackle.

The odd is, every single article mentioned at least one politician. Yes! all of them mentioned at least one politician! Shouldn’t kidnapping be the issue here? Well I can’t blame the writers because the kidnapping was really policized.

This so called kidnapping had turned into free political advertisement and the one who had the most successful was, Tada!!!! Sen. Legarda. Her eight (8) successful(?) negotiations truly made herself a hero on the face of many filipinos. Oh... Really?

If I remember it right, there was also a school bus hostage taking last year where one politician entered the scene and successfully ended the tension, and another during the raid of pirated cd’s on glorietta and another.... and another.... [Read whole article]

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Rodolfo J’Lo Lozada Jr.

Bayani ka nga ba?

Posted by _Blitz_
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Dahil sa NBN-ZTE Deal, matunog ngaun ang pangalan Jun "JLo" Lozada Jr. Siya ang nagsiwalat ng umano’y katiwalian sa NBN-ZTE Deal. Isang napalaking katiwalian na ang mga taong sangkot ay malalaking tao ng ating lipunan. Ngayon ang tanong ko ay maituturing nga ba natin siyang bayani?

Sabi nila bayani daw si JLo, dahil sa kanya, mas naisiwalat ang katiwalian ng unang pamilya. Dahil sa kanya mas lumakas ang oposisyon sa pagtawag ng pagpapatalsik kay GMA.

Bayani nga siya? Sa panong paraan? Kung susumahin mo, taksil pa rin siya sa ating bayan, kagaya ang ibang pulitiko na kala mo malinis pero iba naman ang totoong pakay. Tama nga at meron siyang isinisiwalat na katiwalian ngaun. Pero kasabwat din siya ng ibang katiwalian.

Hindi ko sinasabi na walang karapatang magbago ang mga nagkamali. Meron "OO", dahil lahat tayo nagkakamali at may pagkakataong magbago.

Pero, ang ikumpara siya sa isa yatang malaking kalabisan. Ganun ba kababaw ang batayan natin para ituring na [Read whole article]

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