The last three topics tackled in our colloquia were politics, media and military. It seemed to me that it just made my uncontrollable giggle suffer because of the stolid arrangement and uncolorful discussion of the matter. The penultimate cry in my tears wanted me to cover my body and wrap myself a straight jacket leaving the colloquium. It was the same scenenario I felt when we were talking medicine last week. But due to my deference for the arrangers, I sat down and listen like the absence of the air.
Until the roof of tediousness came crashing down, I just took short notes and stayed outside. The death's final recital from the underground, tha't all I heard. But off the program, media and politics are the sprints of media corruption including motley facets like the military destabilizing the administrative forces. Actually there are terms for media corruption or payoffs to journalists that are used in some article in the news stand. Here are those various terms in corrupting the media.
Blood money
A payoff to ensure that a story or cricle article is killed or else slanted in the briber's favor before publication.
Bicycle gang
Refers to the contacts of politicians in television news desks who ensure that video footage of candidates barnstorming in the provices is circulated to the different TV networks by a messenger riding a bike.
Hao siao
A derogatory term used to refer to pseudo-journalists, those not employed by a reputable news organization but pass themselves off as journalists in order to cash in on the payoffs and bribes made by news sources, particularly during elections.
Orbit
Like planets revolving around the sun, reporters also make the rounds of offices, particularly the police stations, to get their weekly payola.
Smiling money
Cash that is given to reporters or editors for no particular reason except to create goodwill between a source and the journalists.
Tigbas
Cebuano for "cut," used to refer to a hatchet job.
Warik-warik
A Cebuano term used to describe unscrupulous people; to journalists in the provinces, these are the counterpart of Manila's hao siao.
And now what is it you pay when there is nothing to say?
-lyd
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