We are sensing this in the form of fewer hits in even the hottest news sites; the sparser and cooler exchanges in chatrooms and blogs; and the waning ratings of primetime news programs: Viewers are sick of this shit.
The thing with Filipinos is that we can't seem to stay angry for too long. It's the most difficult emotion to sustain, requiring tons of negative energy. Not us. Not the 4th Happiest People in the World.
We are talking about a people who took 300 years to put an end to Spanish colonial rule, 21 years to drive out the marcos dictatorship (and no time at all to elect the marcoses back into the fold).
We are the proverbial bamboo, just bending with the wind. Don't you wish, sometimes, that we could snap?
Amazing how we're bending over backwards to accomodate lies and obvious attempts to fool the public, such as this one caught by PCIJ.
PCIJ source explains the “Anomalies” in Dickey’s analysis.
FROM the looks of it, the two tracks that environment secretary Michael Defensor submitted to American audio forensic expert Barry Dickey for analysis may not have come from the Paguia tape as he claims.
This was the conclusion of our source, an independent audio expert, after reading Dickey’s expert report on the said tracks.
Dickey’s preliminary findings have pointed to certain "anomalies," in particular the absence of start and stop signatures.
Explains our source, "Mr. Dickey was expecting that the recording was done on a standard recording device. That’s why he was looking for ’start’/’stop’ clicks or signatures on both tracks. Obviously the tracks submitted were already edited and ‘pre-selected’ for analysis."
Since Jonathan Tiongco, Defensor’s local audio expert, did not submit the entire recording but only two tracks, including the one with the "yung dagdag" portion, Dickey concluded a lack of consistency with original recordings.
No Pinoy will ever "snap". Tell that to Pilita Corrales!
Posted by: Leonard | August 15, 2005 at 07:41 PM