Comments on: Kidnapping Words & Thoughts…

By: maria

maria — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:12:02 +0000

to be aware is to be alive…so i hope this ends with renewed respect for both sides. sigh. i also hope this DOES NOT happen again. good thing you have a voice MM and you use it well. fight! : ) oh yah…i read her article last thursday and she apologized. i hope she’s sincere. : )

By: Mona_C

Mona_C — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:26:58 +0000

Oh, by the way, the Inquirer reader’s advocate did her job. RA quite specifically apologized to MarketMan. I think that ended well, did it not?

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:55:27 +0000

Yes, pretty much all her columns are like advertorials… i’m sure she gets a lot of cash and certificates or favors for plug ins. I hope she gets fired.

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:52:19 +0000

Yes Market Man, write to the STAR and tell them about it…

not just the star, but to all media representatives and opinion leaders. Sure Reggie deserves no fame from this, but she should be SHAMED….

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:50:30 +0000

We sould all write to the Inquirer to have her taken off as a writer.

Everyone please email the editor at: readersadvocate@inquirer.com.ph

I don’t just want an apology, it’s not the Inquirers fault, but her column should be replaced by a more established food writer.

By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:44:23 +0000

That Reggie Aspiras should be fired. She does not deserve to have a column. She has no professional merit to write about anything. She is a horrible cooking teacher, which is why her school is now at her home, her recipes are horrid and her only claim to fame is that she has a food column… which should now be taken away from her!

By: Peps

Peps — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:26:03 +0000

Hi MM! How about writing an article on this on competitor’s broadsheet? I’m soooooo sure they would be more than willing to.

By: dizzy

dizzy — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:43:26 +0000

I think this publication banks on the fact that most people would “let go easily”. I have this feeling that they have deemed this complaint trivial â€” the article and the writer in question being in the food section. Oops, I’m not trying to fire you up some more Mr. MM. As it is, you seem to be cooking up a storm. =)

By: dizzy

dizzy — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:15:06 +0000

Mr. MM, I can almost imagine you rolling up your sleeves =) Too bad it’s not to cook something from scratch, hehe.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:15:42 +0000

dizzy, you are right, but I don’t let go so easy. I just checked a few more columns of the same writer and I am up to 3 questionable ones which lack sources, and mostly from quick Wikipedia searches… patterns always emerge. Too bad the newspaper editors don’t nip things in the bud, shall we say… I have to formulate an email over the weekend, and copy writer, editor and publisher of the Inquirer and possibly a Board member. Then copy the Union of Journalists in the Philippines that issued the Journalist’s Code of Ethics, maybe the PCIJ for fun to see if they are willing to tackle a subject about their own tribe, and also for fun, that guy who has blown the whistle on all those errors in public school textbooks to see what he has to say…