Protracted fight ahead
Posted on March 13, 2006 - Filed Under General, Responsible journalism |
RESPONSIBLE journalism need not get a journalist in trouble. But since as a great writer once said the journalist must create trouble for truth, here we have a clearly paradoxical situation.
Activist (oppositionist?) media practitioners tend to always test the limits of their freedom while the establishment, for its survival if for nothing else, must see that it is controlled or at the very least tempered. It’s how it has always been with Media and Governance since a Ferdinand Edralin Marcos came into the life of Filipinos. For one to give way to the other now is like surrendering life, or throne, itself. Not without a fight, you won’t. 
That is why, we can only see a protracted fight and a turbulent period ahead as each tries to adjust to the excesses of either – if that is at all possible. Whatever the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary does or decides from this point on, we believe, will be met with cynicism by Media which itself is universally known as the Fourth Estate.
What’s the best solution?
We thin k it’s quite simple. Encourage mutual respect among the Four Estates and observe the “separation of powers.” Today, as in the days of old, fiefdom or territories are held sacrosanct by men. Tread on turfs without permission and war erupts.
That, if you still don’t realize, is universal truth and virtual reality.
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