{"id":608,"date":"2010-04-10T03:58:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=608"},"modified":"2010-04-10T03:58:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:58:21","slug":"a-matter-of-grandstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"A matter of grandstanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, a community organisation purporting to represent \u201cFilipino organisations onshore and offshore,\u201d issued a media release stating that it is a non-partisan group, and yet made a futile attempt to mobilise itself as \u201ca political force for voting\u201d in the upcoming May 2010 Philippine elections.<\/p>\n<p>With the recent PCC-NSW lesson, I am now becoming  sceptical  of  organisations claiming  to<br \/>\n  Major Tom Baena        represent Filipinos. I wonder how many members<br \/>\ndo these organisations actually have? And has their claim of representing Filipinos been vectored? What standards were used in validating their claims of being representatives and advocates of Filipino groups? <\/p>\n<p>Filipino media should continue their vigilance on people who are just grandstanding and should not allow their publications to be used as a platform for people seeking media exposure. The media should continue upholding its role of reporting truth and fairness. Anything less than that would mean the media having poor judgment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, a community organisation purporting to represent \u201cFilipino organisations onshore and offshore,\u201d issued a media release stating that it is a non-partisan group, and yet made a futile attempt to mobilise itself as \u201ca political force for voting\u201d in the upcoming May 2010 Philippine elections. With the recent PCC-NSW lesson, I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}