For the past years that I’ve been working closely with the government, I would usually find myself saying ‘ang hirap naman i-please ng media’ or ‘bakit ganon yung sinulat nila, ano pa ba yung mali?’.
The media is a powerful channel to communicate the reforms and innovations that this government has been pursuing for the past 5 years. I’ve been an avid fan of better stories -stories that would drive people to do good, stories that would move people to act for a greater cause. But then I realized that sometimes (if not most of the time), some media outlets opt to see the ‘badness’ in almost all the things the government is doing. Masama palagi ang tingin, palaging may pagkukulang, palaging palpak. Though this might be true sometimes, I guess the general public deserve to hear the positive changes and the many accomplishments that we all manage to reach.
Hindi ko sinasabing perpekto ang pamahalaang ito, o dapat piliin lang ang irereport ng media. Pero sana, patas naman. Sana nabibigyan din naman ng hustisya yung pagod na binubuhos ng mga nagtatrabaho sa pamahalaan. I know there are still a lot of journalists who are fair enough to strike a balance so that a story can be communicated well to the public. Yung patas, tunay na walang kinikilingan, tunay na nagtatanong at nagsusuri, tunay na nagbibigay ng serbisyo sa mamamayan, at tunay na nangunguna para sa social good at social change.
