By Mortz C. Ortigoza
With roughly 30 local legitimate and fly-by-night
newspapers’ tabloid size in my almost three million populated province
Pangasinan, we have roughly 250 authentic and pseudo
–practitioners that include the village idiots who were whisked up by those two
kinds of practitioners starting as errand boy and account executives that disseminate advertisement flyers until they (idiots) discovered the “bankability” of the trade.
This sorry picture of the media in my province
epitomizes the larger picture of the Fourth Estate in the country.
One of the ugly facets was their bastardization of the
English language that still sees print on newspapers and even on news blogs.
Just like their counterparts in radio, these print
media practitioners are not paid if not paid well thus their news were all
about the glorification of the “greatness”, holly molly, of a politician who
could not even passed the average I.Q test.
These politicians, pockets fattened by corruption monies, flattered by the story give them
three hundred pesos to two thousand pesos as their headline and photo as they
depend on the prominence of the items on the eight pages weekly newspaper.
