Journalists for sale

Say walad leksab et inkomintok ed sakey ya blog ya ag da inabuloyan ya ipalapag. Abaloan ko ayan too et maka-tua tan onlalaban parad tua odino tugtuwa. Nayarin sikato et asakitan ed saya ta sikato et sakey ed sikaran tatawagen kon mercenary journalist.

This is the scourge of journalism, which is to become a paid hack, a mercenary journalist. Journalists should be truth-seekers, not lie mongers or rumor-makers.

Corona is using mass media to confuse the public. Now an unscrupulous journalist who is on the pay roll of Corona would just report what is said to him/her without getting the side of the accused or any evidence. Could Ninez rely only on a rumor passed onto her by a single "impeachable" source? Elementary, my dear Watson.

I know that this type of journalism is practiced not only in Manila but also in the provinces. Journalists of this kind are chided as PR men of politician so-and-so. In Manila, these media outlets become propaganda machinery spewing pure disinformation, outright lies, and malicious rumors for the pecuniary benefit of the publisher and the writer and for the satisfaction of spindoctor/s who is/are usually a politician/s with vested interests to protect.

It seems to me that being a truth-seeking journalist is very rare here in the Philippines. Their species is nearing extinction to say the least!