I've said it before: despite my having started blogging, oh, 6 years ago, and being active in the local scene a few years after that, I've decided to stick it out now with photography instead, and let blogging indefinitely relax in the backseat.
But there are things, topics exclusive, or at least, started by, local bloggers that catch my attention.
Thelma just wrote about
The Blog-Lynching of Malu Fernandez, and like most, I didn't know who this person who appeared to merit such hatred from the blogosphere was.
Then I Googled her name. Oh boy.
Old collegemate Ederic had a pretty concise blog entry about the issue
here.
My take? Gallons of venom has been spewed already, coursed through individuals' blogs (not a newspaper, or a glossy), and I am siding with them, but I do not wholeheartedly share everyone's opinions. Its not that I dont want to be harsh and start calling people names (though she started it!), its just that other people are more capable and chockful of competent reasoning with these things vs. me.
Would I boycott The Manila Standard? I don't subscribe to the publication, though it was briefly our family's newspaper of choice in the early 90s. People Asia? Nope, don't believe I've even read a copy. Sign the petition for Malu Fernandez's ouster? As a writer, press-person? Sure, why not; when did '
lifestyle-writing' ever really qualify as a legit branch of journalism?
