Count the Filipinos among the most opinionated in the world. You only have to make the mistake of initiation small talk with your cab-driver to find yourself at the receiving end of a lecture on how to run the state most efficiently. Or if you are so inclined towards getting into heated discussions over national issued, all you need do is walk over to your neighborhood barbershop. It happens to be an institution in this country for its free-for-all debates, participated in by both proprietor and customer, over burning topics.
Such is the propensity of the Filipinos to give their side on the story whether solicited or not – that it surprises no one that the country circulates more than 20 major dailies and periodicals, many of which feature highly opinionated articles.
The newspaper boom is on of the major after-effects of the press liberalization policy of the present administration. Disregarding the difference in form, size and style of packaging of the newspapers, they have become the country’s showcase of democracy at work. These papers are: Manila Bulletin, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Star, Manila chronicle, Manila Standard,
Now come the glossies, the latest development in cosmopolitan
2 comments:
Is that the kind of newspaper you have there in the philippines?
yeah right.........filipinos have always been noted in their different opinions and debates.
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