I have been a journalist for nearly forty years and every journalistic bone in my body, including those honed by nearly 20 years as a correspondent for Reuters told me that a storm, no matter what category, was always a better story the moment it hits populated land areas than people buying firecrackers. But the Metro Manila-based networks, high and dry in Luzon, did not care about unheralded Seniang because it only threatened Mindanao and the Visayas. In the mindset of the Metro Manila-based networks, a storm in a faraway place only merits attention when the death toll starts ringing. I have often wondered about the mindset of these networks, how early each morning they could not find anything better to dish out to the entire nation than news about vehicle collisions and stabbings in Metro Manila. Maybe it is time these networks wake up to the fact that Metro Manila is not the Philippines, that the Philippines is made up of more than seven thousand islands and that any storm that threatens any of these islands is a concern of the entire country. -- Jerry S. Tundag The Freeman publisher/columnist
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 06:37:43 +0000
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