Halalan bilang larawan ng kabulukan

Arao, D. A. (2007, May 30-June 5). Halalan bilang larawan ng kabulukan. Pinoy Weekly, 6 (20), p. 5. This may be retrieved from http://www.pinoyweekly.org/pw6-20/op_ed/ed-6_20_3.htm.

Pinoy Weekly | Konteksto (kolum ni Danilo A. Arao)Pinoy Weekly onlineThis is my fourth consecutive article on the 2007 elections and the sixth since the start of the year.

I think I will still be writing about the elections in the next few weeks. At the rate the Commission on Elections‘ (Comelec) count is going, it will still take a long time before the winners in the senatorial, party-list and local elections are proclaimed. Since the start of the senatorial campaign in February, I have made it a habit to more constantly monitor the news.

The downside to writing about unfolding events is the tendency of data being rendered stale. One’s analysis – essentially based on the given facts at that particular time – could also become off-tangent (or worse, invalid!) as new developments happen. Print journalists, including columnists like me, could end up with eggs on their faces if they are not careful about the analyses they make in their outputs.

Hope you will have time to read this article to appreciate the difficulty of analyzing events as they happen.

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