So far so good. Thanks. I hope I can be around always to keep our friends here company. I am getting interested to study the building blocks of bloggers and owners. I am amused, really.
Thanks again.

Reply: Thanks for your comment. I visited your blog and read your post. I personally have an ambivalent attitude towards your “favorite” writer from a leading newspaper but it’s possible that his reference to caregivers and domestic helpers overseas as “toilet bowl cleaners” of the world could be taken out of context. Based on what I can recall from his previous column articles (I’m a semi-regular reader of him), I think he was being sarcastic when he said that colleges and universities are better off closed if the graduates we produce are only those who end up in degrading jobs abroad.

Hey, I am sure I left my 4 cents worth here yesterday. At least you could have notified me that you dont like it. I could have apologised. You invited me to visit your work and I saw you didnt have yet any followers so I put in a comment. for the heck of it. I didnt know journalists these days are discriminating. If I was rude, for sure other readers would say that..
By the way, how are the killings there?

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I hope this helps. Again, thank you for your comments and I wish you and your family all the best.

But yes, Manila Standard Today should have totally bump off her column after what happened – but this issue, in one way or another, really gained more attention for the paper and maybe that’s why they’re still keeping her.

At sa pagdaan ko sa make-up column niya (hindi ko ho talaga binasa), hindi pa rin papasa ito, (paumanhin sa pagyayabang) – kasi, para mas kapani-paniwala ang payo niya tungkol sa make-up, sana nag-quote siya ng make-up stylist tungkol dito at nag-research talaga ng mga presyo ng kolorete na nire-rerecommend niya – triangulation, quote a source (one is enough i think for a “soft” topic like this) – kaya hindi rin masisisi ang ibang may impresyon na ang lifestyle at entertainment sections ay nagiging breeding grounds ng mga wanna be journalists – o talagang mga hindi marunong magsulat (kahit pa sabihin na column ang mga `yun).

Just my two cents’ worth.

Reply: Come to think of it, there is indeed a possibility that this column article has been filed way before. But one thing I noticed is her tendency to be more accommodating to the segment of the population she used to abhor. That wasn’t the case with her previous articles I’ve read. I also agree that the column article still lacks the necessary attribution of sources. I would have wanted to discuss that point in my column article, but space constraints got the better of me. Actually, the editors were kind enough to allow this article to go beyond the 600-word limit. Ha ha. Thanks for your comments! Keep in touch!

Reply: I’m not sure if she learned anything. The arrogant tone of her column may be already gone but I have yet to read a formal apology from her, the owners or the editors duly published in the Manila Standard Today. Yes, I agree that we should move on and look beyond Malu Fernandez, but moving on should be in the context of demanding better media content. Audiences deserve nothing less.