LET’S HELP THE GOVERNMENT GET ITSELF OUT OF THE TORTURED CHAMBER.

All Filipinos deplore the fact that corruption had engulfed our country. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes.

It is unfortunate that corruption is taking place everywhere, but it is even more unfortunate if corruption is allowed to creep not only in all facets of government but worse even in the media, by distorting the core of reporting, or worse, intentionally suppressed, closely confined or held them back from the public by the mainstream media themselves particularly TV Channels. These are the indisputable signs that would clearly show the mainstream media have been and are accomplices, encouraging corruption by their actions rather than impeding it.

With corruption at play in the media, reporting runs short of journalism ethics and best practices. It can hastily be mentioned that once media practitioners succumb to corruption, their reporting will be biased and they will fail to expose corruption and other vices. The media should, therefore, rise to the occasion and take on the ‘beast’ of corruption head-on without fear or favor.

I am posting and posting everyday in my FB account, FB page, and Blog – realtruestories.blogspot.com because injustice has spread in the media. We must repeatedly ask ourselves: "Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."

Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create tension so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need to create the kind of tension to the media that will help all Filipinos rise from the dark depths of this out-of-control prejudices and the lack of moral compass going on in the media, and the people see through it.