Comments on: Revolt in the making

By: mlq3

mlq3 — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:13:44 +0000

zapper, you’re welcome to contact gma7, ask for a copy of this week’s episode of reporter’s notebook, see the rebels they interviewed, the efforts they went to validate these stories, see what general almonte has to say, and then come back to me and tell me what it has to do with the inquirer or communist propaganda.

By: zapper

zapper — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:52:21 +0000

Reporter told me that instead of having to recruit students into the CPP, students are now volunteering to join the NPA, etc. -in some cases, with the support and encouragement of their parents.

This is a communist propaganda masquerading as news. Mita is right. We must demand facts, names and places and not rely on “authoritative source” hogwash being peddled by some newspaper just to sell. PDI has become as my favorite blogger says “Philippine Daily Innuendo” has stoop down to the gutter of phil. journalism using “unimpeachable source”.

By: Mita

Mita — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:19:55 +0000

maybe it’s time we demand media back up their reports with facts – names and places instead of taking it all – hook, line and sinker.

para naman na tayong palestinian hammas sa statement na yun…

re the revolt…the alternative is what Chavit accused Erap of doing – holding back tobacco excise tax funds that was meant for Ilocos Sur. i believe this has been going on far longer than anyone will care to admit. toeing the party line or sucking up to the boss is not exactly a new concept.

my own view, we CAN change things, it may not be perfect at first, but we can work on it. I’d rather see this kind of revolt rather than violence and messy street protests that will get us nowhere…

but in the end, the lawmakers and politicians are the ones with the highest accountability to make changes in their own little world that affects us all. it’s not just one issue, it’s several – electoral reforms, a more equitable tax distribution and senate representation, local autonomy, and even violence in places like Abra or Masbate. we can debate all we want but if local politicians will not pick up the cudgels for change, we won’t get anywhere.

That’s just another reason I say the race for congress is more important than the race for a national seat. it’s the local politicians, in touch with the grassroots, who have more to contribute to the country than any joker, ping or bong.

By: cvj

cvj — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:22:55 +0000

UPn Student, I suppose the reports of parents encouraging their children to join the NPA goes some way in answering your conjecture on Arroyo’s popularity with the rural folk two threads back.

By: UPn student

UPn student — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:33:42 +0000

Anecdotal news-making is always troublesome because it — the anecdote or anecdotes — may just tend to glorify an improbable, like the story of one small salagubing in Batangas killing a full-grown carabao. But reports of (probably only five to twenty-five) incidents of “…students now volunteering to join the NPA …in some cases, with the support and encouragement of their parents” is bad news. If it is a couple of suwail na mga anak, still, the anecdote is troublesome. If it is students joining because they are hungry — more troublesome. The only “non-troublesome” is stories of adventure-seekers hoping to eke out some adrenalin, but it appears this was not the case.