Just as f this week, 2 major events had happened in our country...
First, was the hostage taking which ended into the death of 8 Chinese tourists. And the other one was, the ''nakakawaley answer'' of Ms. Venus Raj during the Ms. Universe pageant held at the Mandalay Bay,Las Vegas.
My opinion of that ''hostage taking'' scenario was that it was the slackness of the policemen who were part of the assault team which really worsen the situation. On the first place, they shouldn't have detained the family of Mr. Mendoza because they're not part of it. The family of the hostage taker was there to convince him to surrender to the authority and not to be a connivance of the said hostage taker. What really triggered Mr. Mendoza to do such act was the hopelessness he felt when he was ousted by his position without due process which only shows how injustice our judicial system is.
Though the government said that this incident was just an ''isolated case'' still, it affects us especially that it was a Filipino who made such crime. This is a big insult to our policemen as well as our government whose task is to protect the welfare of its people.
As what i have heard over the radio and as what i have seen on tv's, the government is now blaming the media for airing it live. And I strongly disagree with this. As a masscom student, I know for a fact that the mission of every journalist is to report to the people of what’s really happening. And that it should be base on facts. What we’ve seen on tv’s was the real scenes on that situation and it’s the right of every Filipino to be informed thus depriving the media to air it on live also means depriving the people to know what’s really going on.
Yes, we extend our condolences to those families who lost their loved ones because of this occurrence. This is so tragic. And I just hope that this would not happen again.
