Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Why aren't the Jueteng and Impeachment hearing being televised live?
Kung yung juetengate hearings ni erap at yung "billion dollar" accounts/narcopolitics expose ni victor corpus, PDI, at Rosebud vs lacson ay binigyan ng wall-to-wall live tv coverage ng ABS-CBN, GMA7 at ng mga gov't stations, bakit ayaw nilang gawin rin ito sa jueteng at GLORIAGATE hearings against the fake president?
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Media-Glorified Political Degradation
Philippine Politics have degraded into catastrophic proportion. Three months have passed and the same issues are being tackled by the Senate and Congress. As a transient Filipino in the United States, I am deeply troubled by what is going on back in our beloved Philippines especially with the present global oil crisis (even here in the US, the Americans are affected). Our politicians seem to not care. People’s money is being wasted into those countless hours of senate hearings in aid of legislation (or is it in aid of destabilization?). Jueteng hearings have been conducted in the past and there are existing laws against illegal gambling. Have they started to legislate based from their findings??? The jueteng menace can be solved through strict adherence, application and enforcement of the present laws on illegal gambling. A week has passed and the congressmen were still arguing and bickering on which impeachment complaint should be tackled. There are existing rules on what they were arguing about but they seemed inclined to bend the rules to advance their political leanings and whims. There could be an end for all these brouhaha----they just ought to follow the rule of law. Because of this political degradation, legislation, the main task of senators and congressmen is now sinking towards oblivion.
Severe economic crisis now beset our already downtrodden nation, plunging it more into the darkness of uncertainty. Our politicians do not seem to care whether people are starving and dying because they are all busy pursuing their own egoistic political agenda. It can be deduced from their overly belligerent stance that most of them are driven by sinister motivations rather than serving the people. As such, they render a disservice to the nation by their empty blah-blah-blah’s, constant bickering and media grandstanding. Sadly, the media have become an open handed venue for their antics. The media would almost always fall prey into the trap of taking every politician’s word like hook line and sinker. The media should always be more cautious now because they have become unwitting instruments of the politicians’ egoistic political agenda (my relatives and Filipino friends here in the US would say they no longer watch the news on the Filipino Channel nor surf the internet to read news in the Philippines because they feel depressed watching and reading the same news for almost three months now). Whenever politicians held press conferences either to present a witness or evidence in the current political quagmire, there wasn’t any instance wherein media people asked why they (politicians) are presenting such to media first and not to the court of law or the proper forum. The media is a beacon of truth not of half-truth (it is said that a half-truth is a whole lie). The media can still redeem itself by being critical and vigilant on whether our squabbling politicians have done anything for the betterment of the life of the citizenry, most especially the poor.
Fellow Filipinos, amidst the plummeting economic situation, let us demand our politicians to get their acts together and work for the common good, let us demand the media to stop its glorification of political degradation.
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