tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499859064694863448.post3171678863682453042..comments2023-10-30T07:38:32.292-07:00Comments on Pedestrian Observer GB: "Mob Rule" in Malu Fernandez Downfall, ANCAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03336187436333827201noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499859064694863448.post-37634212318476227022007-09-18T15:49:00.000-07:002007-09-18T15:49:00.000-07:00Unfortunately I wasn't able to watch the ANC show,...Unfortunately I wasn't able to watch the ANC show, but I have watched Che Che Lazaro & have heard Alex Magno a lot before to know that these people are mere puppets of a corrupt system that is known as Phil journalism. Most of the so called journalists we have often mistake license for press freedom, take the case of Malu Fernandez, she really believed that she had the right to insult OFWs because she is in the so called group of "elite" journalists. She is not the only one with that kind of mindset, most of ABS CBNs so called news readers are all opinionated and do not really just read the news but offer their opinion which they try to pass off as the majority's opinion. Don't get me wrong there are a some good ones, who really try to give us the news as it happens but most of them would like to have their opinions imposed on people. That's what Malu and her kind were used to so that when the OFWs reacted differently they all banded together and called it mob rule.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499859064694863448.post-55730120143064689242007-09-04T14:33:00.000-07:002007-09-04T14:33:00.000-07:00I saw the show and was totally dismayed with Che-c...I saw the show and was totally dismayed with Che-che. I thought that the brains behind the Probe Team would have stood up and defend the OFWs. Alas, she showed her true color, she would protect her kind. Malu was never a victim.<BR/><BR/>Ricky was very honest with his comments and actually swayed Magno to his side. He changed his views during the show and acknowledged that blogging is an emerging power. I read Magno's column about the Malu issue where he insinuated bloggers are mere armchair journalists and unlike them, we are not answerable to an editor. Had the editors done their job, Malu's unsavory side comments would not have been printed.mschumey07https://www.blogger.com/profile/04104105681290452414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499859064694863448.post-65228119124183272822007-09-04T13:45:00.000-07:002007-09-04T13:45:00.000-07:00OFW REACTION to MALU FERNANDEZ IS SIMPLY THE CHICK...OFW REACTION to MALU FERNANDEZ IS SIMPLY THE CHICKEN COMING HOME TO ROOST. <BR/><BR/>The OFW is not ignorant of its role in the survival of our nation. That is why it accepts, with mix pride and wariness, the title NEW HEROES OF THE MOTHERLAND. As a matter of fact, the OFW is fully aware that the wages of its sacrifices keep their families alive and our country afloat financially. Yet it could not understand why it is almost always treated less honorably than the REAL TRAITORS to our people and country. It could not understand why, beyond the greed and selfishness which still reign supreme in many of us and in our national polity, it remains one of the most maligned, betrayed, abused, abandoned, ill-treated and neglected sector of our society. <BR/><BR/>And since the different sectors of the OFWs are still not unified, as they are not yet fully organized as they ought to be, the political decision-makers in the Philippines do not seem to treat the OFW issue, as a whole, with great concern and at par with other organized groups such as the existing big labor unions in the Philippines or some other religious groups e.g. Al Shaddai or the INC. This disparity in treatment and concern that bore on the OFW, exacerbated by its inability to protect its own interest, which inability is rooted from the absence of organized OFW power, coupled with the lack of options available to the OFW to find other ways for his family and loved ones to survive, leave the OFW to grudgingly toil in silence but toil it did without complaint, 24/7, for decades, in lonely strange lands, under forbidding conditions but keeps a smoldering anger slowly burning and building deep in its heart. While the OFW keeps that pain deeply suppressed inside, he slowly unchains himself from the confining shackles of his own circumstances. <BR/><BR/>Then the Malu Fernandez article came about. Compared to the proverbial cards the OFW was actually dealt with time and time again, the Malu Fernandez article was actually a fable, a bed time story. However, for one reason or another, the Malu Fernandez article became a phenomenal key that seemed to have opened the floodgates to the long suppressed emotions of an oppressed sector of our society. It was like a bell, whose tolling has awakened the Filipino OFW all over the world from its deep slumber. From the slew of insults that peppered the article of Malu Fernandez, the OFW suddenly seems to find the need to have a common voice. Since then, it has never stop talking about Malu Fernanadez. The written diatribes the OFW sent ranged from the most mundane to the most ascerbic. Certain sectors however commented that the reaction of the OFW has turned into a MOB RULE. <BR/><BR/>Assuming that the OFW’s reaction to Malu Fernandez had metastasized into something of a MOB RULE, did we really bother to ask ourselves the reasons behind the OFW reaction? Is the OFW's reaction to Malu Fernandez's article, merely a manifestation of the nature of the social circumstances that greatly made up the bulk of our OFW, or is it a preview of forthcoming episodes not only from the OFW but also from other sectors of our society which, like the OFW, had long been abandoned and betrayed before, by their leaders and government, but have now found their salvation on their accord and is now on their own road to freedom? I believe it is the latter. <BR/><BR/>And as such, I think it is simply TOO LITTLE TOO LATE for some quarters to expound NOW on what should be the moral width and breadth of the OFW’s reaction to the subject article. For those of us who opted to simply MOVE ON and NOT TO GET INVOLVED whenever confronted in the past, by the FACE of betrayal and injustice to what was right and just for our OFW, it is plain hypocrisy now for these people to exert their moral influence on our OFW. It is simply the height of their pretension to expect that the OFW owe them a breath of decency. <BR/><BR/>For those of us who have abandoned the OFW and now find repulsive the so called rabid reaction of some to Malu Fernandez's article, what MOB RULE are we talking about here? Excuse me, but it is simply the chicken coming home in the barn to roost! <BR/><BR/>These people should rather be most thankful that our OFW still believed that the pen is mightier than the sword. They should pray harder that other sectors of our society, which in the past, had also been been betrayed and abandoned by many of us, would react as benign as our OFW as in the Malu Fernandez brouhaha, once they too have found their own road to freedom and a phenomenal key opens their own floodgates.fidel_umagahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16188654496997007722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499859064694863448.post-27713438967381816922007-09-04T12:31:00.000-07:002007-09-04T12:31:00.000-07:00True Nna, eactly my point why I rated heche a 2 an...True Nna, eactly my point why I rated heche a 2 and a 1 for "siding"wth the "agrieved" Malu.<BR/><BR/>Yes Benj, 8 is pasing, you know I can't be partial towards fellow blggers, lol.<BR/><BR/>One thing I left out was giving Malu a -0 for not showing up and issuing another shallow I am hurt boo hoo hoo statement.... oh well I guess I get a 2 or a 1 too just like ANC & Che2 for laziness in going back and quoting her statement, lol.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499859064694863448.post-26452779715600051012007-09-04T04:05:00.000-07:002007-09-04T04:05:00.000-07:00Our 2 fellow blogger Benj Espina of Atheista and J...Our 2 fellow blogger Benj Espina of Atheista and Josel Gonzales of Nomadic Thoughts an 8 for trying their best not to represent the bloggers or the OFWs.<BR/><BR/>---<BR/><BR/>Hmmm, I think Josel was great in that regard. I actually think he was very hard-line when he came to the defense of the OFWs and justifying why they had the right to voice out.<BR/><BR/>As for the bloggers, I still think that I was able to show the sober side of the blogger reaction. I think there is a need to put things into context - most bloggers reacted in a sober way. There was condemnation, but the violent outburst didn't come from bloggers. Most of them were from the commenters and guests. That was why I had to make it clear that I was speaking for myself and not for everyone else. hehe<BR/><BR/>But yes, Ricky did elucidate a lot of the finer points in the show.<BR/><BR/>He took off from my "there is no hierarchy" argument to his "there are no IRL manifestations" case in the second segment. <BR/><BR/>8 is a passing score right? hehe<BR/><BR/>Thanks and more power.<BR/><BR/>Benj Espina<BR/>http://atheista.netlateralushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01984098101420918932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499859064694863448.post-15021579312380030832007-09-03T23:44:00.000-07:002007-09-03T23:44:00.000-07:00i was about to make a post about media in focus to...i was about to make a post about media in focus today but had to put it off til wednesday. anyway, yes, i agree with some of your sentiments. its like cheche lazaro wants to tell the audience that the bloggers are bad and that malu's the victim! the true issue of why the blogging community hates malu was neglected.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com