"Truth Hurts"

I am fond of hearing stories about the past events, especially about those times before I came to this world, I love knowing things that I didn’t experienced, maybe because I have this personality that I want to be always at any happenings. The stories about the situations and incidents during the Martial Law era captivates me much, it’s because there are a lot of things happened during that time, and those things are considered as historic, and have relevance in my life as citizen of this country, I am interested to know more about the situation of the media, since I am a mass communication student, back then, because I believe they played I big part during those days.

Transparent, according to dictionary, it means clear, translucent, visible, but I hear this world mostly from media people, and it doesn’t seems to be the best words to describe the media. Of course, the media are expected to be brave, honest and transparent, transparent in a way that they don’t choose sides, they are not fighting for a particular person or people but they are fighting for the truth, they are at the middle of every issues, they try to connect, bridge the gap and communicate with different kinds of people. I’ve been impress with some media practitioners, and with some media outfit, because they have been relentless and bias in serving the audience the news that are very informative and interesting.

But recently, as the issue of Noynoy Aquino’s running the presidency, I’ve noticed that this particular station seems giving him much attention and exposure compared to other candidates, and it continued until he was inaugurated. Well, I’m giving them the benefit of a doubt, because of the reason that during his mother’s presidency, her mother was able to bring back the administration of the station to them. Enough of the criticisms, I should be writing about the role of the media in President Aquino’s administration, though it’s somehow related. The media should of course be bias, should not take side in giving information regarding every issue that this administration has, and it should be brought to the public with complete details, and nothing to hide.

I am also expecting and hoping, that the media add strength in their news, it’s not that they are too weak for me, but they should show how powerful they are, and how influencing they are.

Indeed, the life of a media practitioner is too dangerous; their one foot is already on the grave. And in this country, it’s just normal to hear issues regarding media violence, and it’s a minus factor for Philippine journalism, because it somehow means that vigilance could just shot and kill a media man that easy, because media people are too brave to think about their safety. To end, I thought of a quotation that I really like, “truth hurts,” the worst is, the life of media, truth kills.