In my personal opinion, The Philippine Star has successfully made a big accomplishment to downgrade our country by placing a very negative headline in their issue today, November 3, 2010 which reads… “Australia, UK: High terror threat in MM”.
The advisory actually was made by their respective embassies for their citizens and not for the Filipino citizens. I really do not understand what Star wanted to attain when the advisory was referring to some parts of Mindanao and not in Metro Manila. Why scare our people and the rest of the world how dangerous it is here. This is exactly the kind of media that will bring us down. I call on you the management of The Philippine Star to please consider the impact it will give to our country before placing such negative things about our country. Can you imagine how many tourist it will scare because of this headline?
Inside the paper, on page 8, our military claimed it is the foreign terrorist that pose this threat and not our local rebels. In this case, then we are just in the same situation as their countries, Australia and UK wherein foreign terrorist are always a threat.
In view of this, I respectfully urge you to please correct immediately in your next issue to give more the positive side so as reverse the downtrend.
I was saddened when I saw the news at Yahoo just this morning. What I pictured right away were bandits, rebels, terrorists- whatever you call them. It feels sad to hear stories of this sort- especially in Mindanao. Even as a child, I don't understand why we have this "religious war" in our country. But then, being a Catholic practitioner, I respect what Muslims believe in. With the way I look at it, the travel advisory will surely make a negative impact but let's continue to hope and pray for the best. I hope that through this blog, we will continue doing good deeds in our own simple ways. :-) P.S. Start of second semester tomorrow, hope I can start things out positively. :-) More positive vibes, on the go! :-)
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