SCORING HITS AND MISSES

Folks, you read nothing under Scoring Hits and Misses? That's how the intel virus here works. It just makes the cursor disappear and then voila! you turn into a new page with nothing in it.

Let's get to the point:

1. Why is the Maguindanao Massacre until now unresolved? with only the Ampatuan junior jailed? And who knows if they would get someone who looks like him to stay inside the jail but the real one is able to get out of it using another Belo face?

Everything and anything is possible in the land of Mang Pandoy.

But I venture the idea that the reason why so many crimes are unresolved, not only the MM is because our sense of justice waits for us when we get to heaven. Getting justice here on earth does not look all right. It seems our country and city folks equate justice only with heavenly justice and justice on earth (just see how Dondon Lanuza up for executiion in the Middle East finds it difficult to have the punishment be commted to life sentence or pardon) is just too difficult to attain.

The reason for this is that those in charge of moral governance are also willy-nilly as to what justice should be -- should it be for my friends, my relatives or the people of the Philippines? The Philippine priests are now on the spotlight especially in terms of moral governance. Some are more popish than the pope as some quarters have said for coming up with a contrary opinion than Pope Benedict that the condom is okay to be used especially to prevent the contamination of AIDS.

In a radio interview, I had told David Nye of DZRJ, actually the condom is just a piece of rubber and the priests are putting too much sacredness into its use. Why it is just to prevent the meeting of the sperm and the egg. And why shouldn't couples do so? By saying these couples should not use the condom, they are intruding too much into the bodies of people. Now I thought the priests should concern themselves with people's souls, and not with pieces of rubber? Hi Pope Benedict, i commisserate with you but please don't change your stance. 95 million Filipinos to feed? That's too many already, please.

2. Why are radio media people saying the MM is bad, and then in the next breath, air these ads that put down the listeners with statements like: "Kahit magpabango ka, may body odor ka pa rin, (use Rexona)" or "...Eeeek, socks stink (use ambipure) as it the whole day of the listeners should revolve around always checking their armpits and feet all the time as these ads are aired on prime time (while we are having breakfast, and every 15 minutes?

You see Folks, when radio broadcasters speak with great authority on political matters as they seem to be united with people who are for dictatorial and use of inhuman rights, then allow their spiels to be followed by the ads above, then they are deadening the impact of their statements and make the listeners especially those with low education to revert to bigotry, ignorance, and apathy. They do not cultivate strong political stance at all by doing that method of using the broadcast medium. And the person who conceived of the sequence of such spiels and ads, and the person/s who wrote those ads have that idea that subliminal messages can turn on the cash register for their products at the megamall tills without regarding the directions of our nation. The latter is just too eager to grab oodles and oodles of pesos with declining value in the market in exchange for dollars which their multinational companies earn and which are transferred to their headquarters in the foreign countries.

Then as our working folks go to their offices, along EDSA, what do you see? Billboards containing "yes you can, Juan and Juana, you can make our country great!" Wrong, Folks, you see, couples in very sexy poses, and beauteous models in skimpy clothing advertising this and that product. And so coming from the home and going to the office our working force are reminded of their personal lives again -- "ahh I left my wife in the bedroom," or "my lover, where is he now?" Cha-cha-charing, as the swardspeak goes.

Sex permeates the advertising world that makes the viewers revert to their personal selves. And so what kind of nationalism, or love for change are we talking about? No Sirs, No Mesdames, our country is not really bound to attain Great Changes under PNoy with Great Parents, unless he puts his foot down on the kinds of advertising, the kinds of media that should prevail in our country. And putting down his foot does not mean trampling on media rights but reminding them to be more conscientious in their use so that our people can recover and strengthen our humanity as we face the many difficulties of living in our country.

Well that's how the cookie crumbles, when the economy is controlled by peso-eyed advertisers.