Terribly difficult to believe everything Olivarez-Cunanan says; she’s one of Gloria’s and this administration’s drum beaters.

I do think most of what she says come from her backside.

Btw, what do you mean “I’m back”? I never left.

The problem is that consumers of the “information” products of our current Philippine Media don’t have the brains to be critical in the way they discern between good quality and bad quality content.

Same thing is happening with the Philippine Blog Awards. That too has become a love-in of padrinos/padrinas and little cliques of like-minded bloggers that no longer represent the true breadth and depth of the Philippine blogosphere — just as, today, the overall Mainstream Philippine Media no longer represent the breadth and depth of the IMPORTANT issues that face the larger Philippine nation not to mention the ORDINARY Filipino as it has become no more than a mouthpiece of the small elite minority of the chattering classes that broker power among themselves.

So if we are outraged by this kind of “irresponsible” reporting, we should STEP BACK and regard the bigger picture and ask a broader question:

What has become of the Philippine Media?

Do its “products” it still serve the interests of the Filipino people? Or has it become just another cog in the machinery that wins political power for the Usual Suspects and makes money for the shareholders of the large for-profit enterprises that largely make up this community?