People will eventually act
Leonardo J. Galvez
10 August 2012
The prognosticators claim that the Sunday Punch’s news stories about reported shenanigans in the city hall are all “sound without fury” are now in a quandary. Charges are now filed with the Ombudsman courtesy of Leo Angeles and one concerned citizen.
City hall defenders and a retinue of paid hacks are blaming Sunday Punch publisher and editor Ermin F Garcia Jr. for the exposé saying that the latter has an axe to grind against the incumbent because of his defeat in the last mayoral election. That’s far from the truth. Nonetheless, if he were elected, corruption in the city hall would have been a thing in the past. I have known this guy since he was a kid. He calls spade, a spade.
The city hall’s disrespect for boundaries between a public servant and the press deserves a public reprimand.
A newspaperman through and through — he was once the publisher of the Manila Times — he can’t close his eyes and let the excesses of city hall left unchecked. In fact, he is doing them a favor. His Punchline is a grim reminder that unless reforms are in placed, the people will eventually act.
Correcting a wrong with another wrong is not his common denominator. He just used his pen to express his distaste on how the city government is being run.
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