The Press is Killing Me.

The Press is killing me with - 

Stress.

Every single day when

I turn on the tv

or the radio.

The news presenters

and announcers

blare their lungs out screaming

that this so and so

john/jane doe

died of:

gunshot wounds,

drowning,

stab wounds,

vigilante justice,

electrocution

(having the misfortune of standing in lightning's way),

strangulation, massacre, 

war,

suicide,

hit and run;

a hit then a short run

then was backed up again

to be run over the

second time around.

I feel for the victims

and their families,

but it does not help

when the news is sensationalized

and overly presented

in a stage theater type exaggerated manner.

Hello pseudo-journalists

(ahem biased)

you are not helping!

Especially when you guys

report the facts publicly

instead of keeping some

things private

in respect for the

authorities' investigations

and the privacy of the victims.

Shame on you guys!

You even have the nerve

to criticize them when you guys

are always crossing the line

and not letting them doing their job.

Do not cross the police line please

or act like you are the police!

I know, some of them are

really incompetent investigators

who cannot put two and two together

and would rather let a fall guy take

the blame just to end a case

but come on where are your sensibilities?

Mind your own business

and please do it ethically.

The press is not helping especially

when they broadcast that a

 so and so raid is going to

occur here

(insert imaginary google map).

I also hope that they at least

try to maintain a dead person's dignity

by not showing their bodies.

Man! At least give them some respect,

you do not want to be ogled at

when your soul is floating

a foot away from your

scattered bodily parts on the road.

Just look at this telenovela

I read on the newspaper the other day:

I sympathize with the family,

this is really devastating.

But really when you talk to the press

all the nitty-gritty details

of your life are exposed.

I find it sad though that this Magsaysay (?name)

lady who knew all along that

she was an adulteress

by being a kept woman

of Ramon Revilla Senior

managed to have 9 kids with him ?!

WTF moment for me ?!

Delicadesa is lost and long gone in this country.

One mistake is enough, methinks.

But being Kabitenyo myself

this telenovela is far from over, 

expect more killings 

and more stress.

One solution I must implement

is to stop consuming all

these garbage reports

that the sensationalist press people are putting out

and oh, learn to cross-reference.

Not all things published are true.

(Including blogs hah!)

As my life philosophy goes:

there is no one truth,

truth is just a version of

one's perspective on fact.