Tuesday’s big news

Image from the Facebook page of Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses to Malacañang – Carmma

 

Pardon the 1-day late post. Yours truly have been sickly over the weekend.

And while I was checking my Facebook last weekend, I saw posts from my former editor colleagues, saying Tuesday, November 8, will be a very, very crazy day in the newsroom because of the following:

The Philippines’ Supreme Court decision on the burial of former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani 

“Voting 9-5, the high court dismissed the petition filed by human rights groups and victims of martial law.”

The debut column of Mocha Uson (the staunch digital influencer and supporter of the Duterte administration) in the opinion section of The Philippine Star

“Mocha Uson’s new job as a Philippine Star columnist didn’t sit well with one of the kin of its founder. Regine Belmonte, the daughter of Miguel Belmonte (president of Philippine Star), took to Twitter on November 6, to express her thoughts on Uson after she found out that the former sexy singer will be joining the broadsheet as one of its columnists.”

The US presidential election (Wednesday, November 9 Philippine Standard Time)

Well, at least, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump made amends after a vile election campaign season (oh, their impersonators Alec Baldwin [Trump] and Kate McKinnon [Clinton] did on Saturday Night Live)

These witticisms from Overheard in the Newsroom over the election made me laughed out loud:

 

 

Going back to the Philippines, it is the third anniversary of the SuperTyphoon Haiyan (Yolanda) and “[President Rodrigo] Duterte said he was disappointed with the insufficient housing assistance even three years after the strongest typhoon to ever make landfall in history hit Eastern and Central Visayas.”

Any big news I missed?

I understand why my former editors and colleagues are frantic over today’s happenings. But I know they are dedicated journalists who can handle the job very well and such rush in today’s newsrooms only add fuel to their passion to serve the country through responsible reporting.

Having been out of mainstream media for 10 months now did not make me care less about what is going on in my country, in the world.

It is simply that I chose not to deal with trolls who are simply out here in the online space ready to attack in case you have said something they saw as a potential goldmine in favor to their candidate or any party they are supporting. I myself have done social media management, and oh boys and girls, some of you can really get nasty. And some of you are paid to do so.

Thus, I only chose to keep my opinions mostly to myself, and to my close circle of friends. And doing my very best to share empowering, enabling posts across my social media platforms. To add to the toxicity in today’s vile online and offline world is not really helpful.

I am sharing these pieces of news to you in case you missed them (and the links I shared are those I saw immediately per my search).

So, there …. I myself cannot do much about these developments or have not given much thought about what to do yet (particularly those happening in my country). But I can choose to be a responsible Filipino citizen, of the world, one day at a time, one act of kindness at a time.

Tuesday, November 8 is still on, and there might be bigger news breaking anytime now.

(And Prince Harry just confirmed he is dating Meghan Markle.)

So, the world awaits.

Until next week for a new post. Email ma.lynda.corpuz[a]gmail.com for feedback.