Let ‘daily media’tell the story
YOU don’t burn journalists for their reportorial lapses, especially in spot reportage or, in today’s idiom, livestreaming. A vet editor once said they look for “bravery” in cub reporter applicants, and by that he meant grit and wit to collect, treat a material like a pro within the quick space between fact-gathering and actual writing. You ask for balance and enterprise; you may at least wait for the long form. Any discerning news consumer knows raw reportage is supposedly treated with a degree of tent at i veness.
But social media, the electronic twin of the fast-food culture, is simply devoid of restraint. Local media got the bashing from some sectors, including from one student editor who barreled off about local journalists maligning a university from which campus a supposed “rescue” operation by social welfare agents and a police unit was conducted on a delegation of lumad minors. The accompanying teachers and elders were arr est ed.
In another space, at the Supreme Court recently, the case of two Aeta men who are charged under the new antiterrorism law, had spiraled into a complex yarn of contrasting claims— between authorities and petitioners against the anti-terror law, now being debated. At the center of all these are Japer Gurung and Junior Ramos,
“On the vaccination, according to the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF), and the national government, hopefully, the rollout would take place by March this year,” Gaerlan said, who is also chairman of the MCAC.
MCAC is composed of the surrounding Metro Clark Areas which include the Cities of Angeles, Mabalacat, Porac town all in Pampanga; and Bamban and Capas towns in Tar l ac.
Gaerlan also discussed significant features of the said plan such as the eligible population, vaccination team training, vaccination post or venue, ancillary supplies and handling, and CDC’s coordination with other departments and agencies.
Under the eligible population, an initial 190 persons among frontline and medical workers will be prioritized in receiving the vaccines.
Senior citizens in this Freeport as well as CDC’s security group will also be given importance.
Meanwhile, the second priority cluster or Group B is composed of teachers, social workers, government employees, essential workers, and other remaining workforce.
For its part, the MCAC, as supported by Pampanga Governor Dennis “Delta” Pineda, also urged the locators here to prepare and allocate funds for the vaccination of their em p l o yees.
However, it was emphasized that the administration of vaccines will not be mandatory and it will still be a personal decision to be made by workers if they want to be immunized or not.
“It’s up to them on how to go about it, but imagine if all employees received vaccination then the economy here will get even better,” Governor Pineda said earlier.
Mabalacat Mayor Crisostomo Garbo, who is also MCAC co-chairman, agreed to the proposal of Pineda to inoculate all workers in Clark and to start asking locators if they want to purchase their own vaccines through a tripartite agreement with CDC and the national government.
In the said meeting, it was also gleaned that they are now considering and determining the possible vaccination storage facility, sites, and centers in Clark and elsewhere. Close coordination among departments and agencies will also be made to ensure the successful conduct of the said inoculation plan once the vaccines were made available.
Also present during the advisory council meeting are Mayors Jaime Capil of Porac, Jose Antonio Feliciano of Bamban, Reynaldo Catacutan of Capas, Max Sangil (representing Mayor Carmelo Lazatin Jr., of Angeles City), and provincial administrator Roberto Ventura (representing Governor Susan Yap of Tarlac).