A media covenant during election time. Well, that's all there is to it. In other words, the media would try to police themselves covering the election campaign by not giving in to pressures from the most "famous" and the "most with money" to endorse them.

However, the question is, will the media would actually do this to themselves? that remain to be seen.

Speaking of which, why is it that, people who want to post their personal opinion in blogs at gmanews being subjected to censorship in their own views concerning the coming election? some blogs are getting "deleted" outright.

I think, in my own personal opinion that, this "covenant" by the media is nothing but a big "show of sincerity" in false pretense.

Don't you think the media should encourage people to give their own opinion regarding elective officials campaigning this coming election? Just asking.

It is almost like a total censorhip by gmanews to bloggers giving their opinion.

Just a thought.

In other words, this covenant is only localized in a certain area and or province. Sort of like the better business bureau of what the us of a has, as to the philippine press in manila.

They have talked about this amongst themselves because it sounds "so good" to the public, however, is this really enforceable to all journalists in manila? I'm beginning to wonder, who is going to monitor who is doing what for personal endorsements made by them.

This, i've got to see myself.

Just a thought.

I still have got to see a journalist reporting not what a certain candidate is doing now, but, what he or she has done to the "people" before he decided to campaign to get the top post in public office in the philippines.

An example of this would be, jamby madrigal handing out "lunch" to residents in pasay city the other day, anyone covering this event would look at what she is doing at that time, but, a real professional reporter would probably look of what exactly her "motive" in doing this. In other words, you don't want to be fooled by good acts intended to please people for the moment. Besides, she only decided to do this because she wanted them to recognize her in posters, she even said it herself that, and i quote "i wanted to help them all the time" end of quote. If she really wanted to help them, why didn't she do it years ago when she was a very close friend of the marcoses.

Sorry, i got carried away there for a moment. I better stop cause i could feel my blood coming up to my ear. A very good example of a "false pretense".

Just a thought.

During the last days of the marcos regime, international press representatives were invited in manila by marcos himself, yes, he invited the international journalists to come over to manila and make assessments of the political turmoil in progress.

The reason why is that, he could no longer "control" the philippine media of reporting what was happening then in manila. So,he turned to them (the international press). What was to happen will be the biggest mistake that he ever made, the international press and or journalists to be specific turned down his "bribe" for them to report to the world that he is still "in control" of the situation. This is what i called "responsible reporting" at it's best. I remember peter jennings of abc news asking him if he would call an election to make sure that people still believe in him, and his reply was "yes". The rest is history.

But, of course, i wouldn't even compare journalists, at least not in my lifetime, who hails from manila to be having the sincerity,audacity, honesty, integrity to report to the people of exactly what he had in mind and what he may have witnessed in light of all these. Some, could still be "bought" for a fee.

Just a thought.

Looks like the marcoses are starting to regain and or recoup from the government all the assets that they lost right after the marcoses left the philippines to hide in hawaii.

Is this a coincidence or what? imelda marcos for congresswoman (the shoe lady) as she was known in international circles, bong marcos,imee marcos, oh my goodness! i totally forgotten about the other girl, whatever happened to irene? She's the only sane person that i know during those days that is a member of the family.

Slowly but surely creeping into the limelight of politics, these are the people that you have to watch closely folks, because, if you are not being careful, jamby madrigal being president will be like throwing a piece of steak to the lions. If this ever happen, it's party time once again in malacanang with all the trimmings of a royal gala. The marcoses will be back in no time to the place where they held lavish parties, compliments of course by tax payer's money. Talk about "political dynasty".

Bong marcos when interviewed this week said, and i quote "i want to end poverty and improved the economy", doesn't that sound familiar? He sounded like his dad talking to the press corps that he owns and control. I know, i've got an idea, when he becomes president in the not so near future, he could just have a walk out of gate five of the malacanang compound and look at those little kids playing on the street at jp laurel, they are actually looking for some scrap of foods thrown by passersby.

Incidentally, he used to just stare at this people outside of his office in the old san miguel brewery, that was when he was a teenager.

People who live outside the country could only "gnash" our teeth whenever we hear this "old clique", what it means, was that, after all the snow fairy's dust have settled on the ground and lost it's silvery shine in the dark, when all the parties have ended, and people have been promised once again that good things are coming in the near future, these bastards that you've elected will begin their own personal vendetta to recoup what they have lost getting your vote.

But then again, this could be a blessing in disguise for the filipino people to really realized the true meaning of living in democracy. Which, unfortunately, you have not reach it at this point.

Filipinos indeed are very forgiving no matter what. However, this could be detrimental to their own survival. I just feel sorry for your grandchildren, and your great grand grand children, cause they wouldn't even know that this time around, you screwed up big time.

Just a thought.