Republic of Politics

Filipinos love politics. So we politicized our military. What was once clearly isolated from politics, distinct from the national police which is civilian in character, has become an indispensable political ally. Politics runs deep in the military that retired military generals either get appointed as cabinet members or run for political posts. Those kicked out […]

So who is a journalist?

UST, the Philippine’s oldest university that has produced many of the country’s good journalists, is posing questions that touch at the core of how we define a journalist. Here are some of my ramblings. Who is a journalist? If we go by the University of Sto. Tomas’ (UST) statement against an article that had questioned the […]