Comments on: Scribes Drunk on Mangosteen…

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:32:14 +0000

Another one bites the dust? hay Inquirer when will you stop being a bully

https://lukewarmnolonger.multiply.com/journal/item/33/photo_theft_–_it_happened_to_me_

By: Gwiz

Gwiz — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:30:28 +0000

â€œSince 600 AD, mangosteen has been known as a healing agent and was used by scribes in Southeast Asia.â€

If you follow the google sources, you will be directed to the site of Xango juice drink and it states, and I quote:

â€œAs early as 600AD, scribes in Southeast Asia recorded the use of mangosteen as a general remedy and healing agent.â€

OMG! I agree, agree, agree with your rant about this. It is amazing how many inept (yes, inept) writers are out there writing professionally! This is a classic case of incompetent paraphrasing.

By: marie

marie — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:30:34 +0000

And they call themselves a newspaper, newspaper my ass. lets all move to star ahahaha.

By: DADD-F

DADD-F — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:14:14 +0000

Oo naman anonymous paul. I have not quite lost faith in your being Filipino too. :) Kaya lang kasi, these kinds of one-liners erode confidence in ourselves. We use it oh so loosely that we fail to recognise it’s sinister and long-term implications. Maybe it’s time to invent a new expression that could very well stir the pot, as you call it, yet not denigrate our own kind, in our own eyes–lalo na sa mga bata who are beginning to think na ganun na nga lang tuloy tayo whenever they hear this from our own lips; lalo na rin siguro when so many others not Filipino can hear/view such declarations. Kung wala tayong respeto sa sarili eh how can we expect others to respect us?

So let us all continue to be vigilant and articulate what we see wrong and be willing to do our bit to improve things. Oks na?

By: bedazzle

bedazzle — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:07:20 +0000

ay naku, MM, sinabi mo pa!! i’ve also had a couple of sorry encounters with this newspaper. they publish news articles without verifying their facts first and when you write a letter to the editor to correct them or put the article into its proper perspective, they don’t publish your letter. you see, i work in a rather sensitive government office and this newspaper issued an article about another government agency where we have the so-called oversight function. they only wrote about this agency’s side of the story and they did not bother to ask us about ours. where’s the fairness there? but just like you, we continue to subscribe to this newspaper. bakit nga ba ganun? =)

By: wits and nuts

wits and nuts — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:41:30 +0000

This calls for readers’ awareness. :p

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:28:16 +0000

oddly, I don’t read the comics, komiks…

By: mojacko

mojacko — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:52:16 +0000

on a totally unrelated topic, what do you think of their huge carlo j. caparas komiks?

By: Lani

Lani — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:03:22 +0000

I totally agree with you MM. And by the way, I went to the market this morning and the price of mangosteen is P60/kilo, so the writer can buy 1/4 kilo of mangosteen for only P15, cheaper than the price of their newspaper, shhheesssssshhh…

By: Catalina

Catalina — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:51:34 +0000

Truly–the state of our mass media (both print and broadcast)is pathetic. Broadcast media in particular . . . reporters can’t distinguish fact from hearsay, assumption, allegation. Nakaka-insulto. Newsriting/editing professors like Louie Beltran and Armando Malay before him, I’m sure, are turning in their grave.