I’ve only recently begun rebuilding my original blog, www.pinoybiz.blogspot.com and it looks like it will entail a lot of work.
The process of redirecting my traffic to Asian Correspondent (AC) messed up a lot of things. Back when AC recruited me to be one of their bloggers, I don’t think I fully understood the implications of having my blog’s traffic redirected. Now that I know a bit more about the implications of a traffic redirect, I would probably advise fellow bloggers against it and tell them to insist on being given a new blog to work with.
After all, a personal blog is something that you create out of passion for what you think is right and good. It is one person reaching out to the rest of the world to say, “This is what I think, this is what I feel, this is what I stand for, this is what I am going to do.”
I think that Noynoy Aquino is going to be the worst President this country will ever have and because he is such a weak leader, he will be ousted before his time is up. I feel awful because a lot of my countrymen are buying into the empty hype that is propping up Noynoy Aquino’s candidacy. I stand for the idea that we can make our country better by simply being more critical about the choices we make. What I am going to do is to continue blogging in the hopes that enough people will start responding to the realities that are staring them in the face.
Some bloggers enjoy being referred and treated as journalists of one sort or another. Some claim to follow certain ethical standards, being cause oriented, and make a big fuss over “credibility”.
As for me, I am really just a guy with a blog who writes about his thoughts and experiences.
There have been a number of times when I received comments branding me as an unethical journalist and I just laugh it off. Maybe what the commenter wanted to convey to others is that I should not be believed and that’s all right. You don’t have to believe what I write in my blog and you don’t have to agree with me either.
All that I care about is that I make some sense. Although I do make an effort to be accurate about the stuff I write about, I sometimes make errors in judgment and this is something that happens to most bloggers — even the more prominent ones who actually claim to be journalists.
I usually give this advise to those who comment that they have been disappointed that I was not conforming to journalistic standards:
If you want news, go to a news website. If you want the opinions of professional columnists, go to the opinion pages of news websites.
At this point, let me clarify that I respect the decision of AC’s editorial board to let me go and I think it was a well thought out decision, considering that I am not a journalist and as a blogger, I tend to go in directions which do not conform to certain journalistic standards.
AC wants to displace the Far Eastern Economic Review and it is a rather lofty goal. I used to read the FEER a lot a number of years ago and although I really didn’t understand most of what I read, I had the impression that whatever story that FEER printed caused a lot of ripples.
Considering that I am just a blogger and considering that AC wants to become a serious online magazine, I think that going separate ways is a good decision. I can continue writing what I want to write in the way that I want to write it and AC can go on to become a great online magazine.
Let’s see about that. Maybe it’s time for a change. All the president people had voted in the past years like Erap. Muka siyang malakas. Pero walang nagawa sa bansa. Noynoy looks weak, hindi natin alam siya pala ang sagot sa problema ng bayan.
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bp Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
nafp,
well, the least noynoy supporters can do is encourage their candidate to come out with a clear outline of his plans so we may intelligently vote for him if he truly deserves it.
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bp Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
nafp,
btw, you better check your settings. your messages are always landing on my spam folder. buti na lang i review its contents before i delete.
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pinoybuzz Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 8:05 am
NAFP,
If Noynoy Aquino is as good a President as you think he is, then it should be no problem at all for him to point out what he will do.
In DZBB’s Kilalanin, instead of elaborating on the steps he’d take to shore up government revenue in the face of mounting deficits, he talked more about the problem.
He seemed to be pointing to shoring up tax revenue collections, however, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has already deployed a number of programs to increase tax revenue collections. The question here is, what else would Noynoy do to increase the revenue collection even further?
Or is the revenue collection rate really the problem?
Maybe what we need to do is to increase the earnings of the tax revenue base and that points to growing the economy, more than efficiency in collection — which conveniently for Noynoy, is an area where he can play up his integrity card.
Moreover, when Noynoy talks about increasing tax collections, he’d probably have to launch a tax collection drive and would eventually gain a reputation of being the Sheriff of Nottingham more than being Robinhood.
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i heard some people say that noynoy is the new erap. got elected because of sheer popularity, nothing more. this observation is worth mulling over, i think.
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Noynoy Aquino is actually well liked because his clean track record… as for his achievements you can go here at this site… tuloypnoy.com
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bp Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
nafp,
for some reason all your comments are really ending up in my spam comments. you might want to d something about that. anyway, this new one from you does seem spammy. but, being the nice guy that i am, i’ll let it through.
about achievements, i’ll be blunt noynoy doesn’t have any. i’ve been to your site and it’s all hype and propaganda there. btw how’s the campaign of atty. lacson. he really did well for himself, didn’t he. his media stunt in front of the aquino residence paid off. now he’s a candidate for senator. i might consider him but i will also need to see his legislative ideas first. a well thought out platform would be good.
going back to noynoy. i found this rather interesting comment about noynoy at http://www.thepoc.net. Read on.
i wonder what noynoy has to say about this.
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