Pamamahayag, ekonomiya at wika

Arao, D. A. (2007, August 8-14). Pamamahayag, ekonomiya at wika. Pinoy Weekly 6 (30), p. 5. This may be retrieved from http://www.pinoyweekly.org/pw6-30/op_ed/ed-6_30_3.htm.

You can safely assume that I wrote this article in time for the Buwan ng Wika (Language Month) in August.

I have to admit though that I am not that satisfied with the concluding paragraph since readers may interpret it as a shameless plug for the tabloid that I write for. That’s not to say that the claims I made are exaggerated. On the contrary, even before I started writing regularly for Pinoy Weekly, I have used the latter in class discussions as a good example of journalism in Filipino.

That I was able to relate the use of Filipino in journalism to the orientation of our educational system in particular and the economy in general is not really easy, and I had to go through various drafts to condense everything in a little more than 600 words.

I think this article can serve as a working framework of sorts for an indepth research on the use of language (particularly English) by the powers-that-be as they try to pursue their agenda. I might just conduct this in the future, but I think there’s nothing wrong should you decide to do this research now.