EDITORIAL – Of truths and biases

There are some media personalities in the Philippines today who, because they have reached the heights of the profession, think they can impose their opinion upon the nation and have it believed solely on the basis of their stature.

These media personalities are like cars without brakes. They barrel down the highways of public discussion as if they own the only franchise of correct ideas. They manufacture their own logic in the same way arrogant and abusive drivers make their own rules.

Listen to this saintly one defending the indefensible: “It seems disingenuous of Neri to say that Lacson and Madrigal, two busy senators, would go out of their way to have dinner with him just to listen to him lecture on corruption and its causes.”

For God's sake, why cannot this media personality just tell it as it is – that Lacson and Madrigal are never too busy to do anything for as long as it eventually destroys their common enemy.

Another media personality, defending the t-shirt of Jun Lozada, said: “He apparently did not know he would be appearing on tv, he thought he would be merely supplying audio from where he was.”

Shucks. For someone so “professional,” this media personality could have asked Jun if that was true or not, thus getting it straight from the horse's mouth, instead of supplying the alibi for the source, in which case there was clear tampering of the facts.

And why would Jun not know he was appearing on television when it was a television network and not a radio station that had invited him to appear on the show? Talk of twisting the facts just to misrepresent the truth in defense of a glaring bias.

And speaking of truth, which is on everybody's lips, what truth is there to search for when everybody appears to have already come to a conclusion, has already prejudged everything, and all that we are just waiting for is the hanging – of what else but the truth itself.