Big loser

Keanna Reeves doesn’t deserve to be the big winner in ABS-CBN’s latest PBB edition. If she wasn’t a celebrity and she was put in the first edition of PBB, she would have been one of the early ones to be voted out. She doesn’t deserve the title. She only won because she was the one who “needed it the most”. Do we really want to reward bad Filipino values and help those who are truly less deserving? She won because she was supposedly the most needy. I certainly don’t oppose giving to those in need, but I certainly do oppose giving to those who are not deserving, those who don’t even want to extend real effort to change their lives for the better. Don’t give them fish, teach them how to fish. Keanna Reeves will feast on fish.

If she loves her kids so much, why don't we see the kids more often? Her image shows her off as a happy go lucky reformed ex-prostitute looking for love. Where are the kids in that picture? The only time she seems to talk about her kids is when she does her drama about her life story. There was a task on the show where she could have won a trip with her kids to Hong Kong Disneyland. To those who saw the show, it was obvious that she could have cared less about sending her kids to Disneyland. She would have rather hung out with her friends in the house and go on with the rest of her life than even show the slightest interest in winning the task for her kids. Yes, her task was daunting, but she shouldn’t have given up so easily especially after the show’s staff gave her numerous extensions and opportunities to finally do her task. They ended up asking someone else to make a sacrifice to send the “family” on that trip. Through the hard work and kind heart of someone else, she and the rest of her “family” get a prize.

Should you reward that kind of laziness and self-centeredness? She doesn't love her kids as much as she thinks she does. Maybe she doesn't know what it means to be a mother. Maybe she's still trying to live her life the way it would be if she didn't have kids yet. Maybe she didn't want her kids in the first place. If all of this is wrong, and I hope it is, she better change her image and lifestyle and fulfill the role that is most important for her: to be a mother, not necessarily a provider, but a loving, nurturing, present mother to her children.

Desperate for news

Desperate for news, reporters sometimes use the ploy of asking tambays what they think of current events. What is the purpose of this? Do they succeed in bringing out the voice of the Filipino? It is clear that they don’t. All they succeed in doing is making a tambay feel good about their being willingly incompetent. Thus they are rewarding the real lower class Filipino and are encouraging this kind of behaviour. Now that makes us poorer.

Desperate for news, reporters sensationalize militant activities. Can our immature local news teams understand the difference between the voice of militant groups and the real voice of the people. It is no secret that militant groups are biased and go to extremes often blowing up issues. Being naturally biased, they more often than not have their facts twisted and do not represent the truth as it is. Their views are biased and so their voice is conditioned. Yes, recognize the importance of these groups but know where to draw the line. When these people march over and over again, don’t report that more and more Filipinos are supporting their cause. When militant groups join forces to give the illusion of amassing support, they are just putting up a show. Perhaps in this showbiz crazy country, the people who will eventually control the society–or the seeming majority of ill advised Filipinos–will be the best actors, those who will be able to twist the truth the best. And the local media aids in this disinformation.