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I read a news article about the government filing a libel case against a blogger. Well, wait a minute? Aren’t we all entitled to our rights in expressing our thoughts? What about freedom of speech? What about democracy?
The case is about a blogger writing something about the relief goods caught on pictures rotten in warehouses during typhoon Ondoy. We all know that metro manila was badly hit with floods. So what our countrymen and other nations did was to raise funds and donate to the victims.
One blogger has posted on her blogsite an article showing pictures that the food donations were all in a warehouse somewhere in the city. Sadly there were also alleged reports that they were not being given to the victims but they are being stacked in the warehouse for something else. You can see the shots of the goods prints showing that it was donated by UN and even noted that it wasn’t for sale.
The person who wrote about this evidently cares about the people who should’ve received their supplies. You see not most of the victims can buy their own food. Not most of them can start anew right away. In fact you can see from the news report that most of them had to spend a month or so living in evacuation centers in makeshift tents. I can say that the person who has written about this has sent a message to each and every one of us that yes, the government is responsible for sending the donation to the victims. It should not be kept hidden away from them. We are all relying to our trusted government but with the pictures posted, it definitely told a huge message that someone is behind this.
As a blog writer, posting our opinion should not punish us. Not all articles we write have the intention to ruin someone else’s reputation. It just so happen that this person
blogged about what she saw on the pictures. I can say that there wasn’t a personal note on the article. What I understand about the article is the message that our countrymen needs the food ration and obviously there are some who has not been receiving their rations at all. That’s it. The person who’s in charge of the food donations should be transparent as to what are the areas that hasn’t been receiving their share of the donations.
We should not be pointing fingers at each other but hence we should ask each one of them how they have helped in sending those donation to the affected areas. It’s sad that instead of making a right out of the mistake that happened, well they even filed a libel case about the person who posted the blog.
Blogs are like journals or diaries. They are the modern type of a pen and a paper. You write your thoughts on your blog. Happy, sad, angst, knowledge, opinions, feelings, jokes, recipes, anything that we are, we write it on our blogs. I know it is our responsibility if we want to write something about a very sensitive issue and it is our opinion that we are posting. Journalism should not be gagged, it should not be restricted, should not be a lie. I believe in responsible journalism and I also believe in responsibility to your countrymen. We should all do our share in keeping this nation in believing that someone, somebody out there cares for our welfare as a nation.
