news "alice guo"
news "sara duterte"
news “quiboloy”
and I get these results: 300,000 for Alice Guo, 324,000 for Sara Duterte, and an
astounding 11,400,000 for Quiboloy!
For "poor filpino farmers" I get only
31,000 results – almost 10 times less than Guo, 11 times less than Sara, and 40
times less than Quiboloy. The message I get is that Pinoy Media are very much interested
in the sensational, and hardly interested in Filipino farmers who find life
always challenging them – And there are 3 million of them!
Why are
Pinoy Media not mediating for our 3 million Filipino farmers?
(bottom image from timetoast.com)
(1) Not understanding
agriculture is not a good reason – Pinoy Media should be able to understand
what is poverty.
(2) Not understanding the
reasons for Farmer Poverty – instead, that should be an excellent reason for Pinoy
Media to search for understanding!
(3) Not knowing that there are
3 million Filipino farmers who are poor – all the more reason Pinoy Media should
find out more!
All the numbers tell me the media are very
much interested in the sensational and not much interested in the downtrodden.
The image above, from
youtube.com, says:
Her FATHER is crying too!
Heck, her mother and brother are crying as well!
Crying because of poverty.
Don’t tell me the
girl in the image does not look poor – you don’t have to look poor if
you are poor.
Actually, 3
million poor Filipino farmers are not only 3 million – if each one has 3 other
members in the family, then there are 9 million poor family members among poor Filipino
farmers!
In any case, I write
persistently about those poor farming families because I know that farming does
not need to cause poverty and in fact can give rise to healthy and wealthy Filipino
families!
The single &
primary reason Filipino farmers are poor is that they practice Chemical
Agriculture (CA); CA is Very
High Costs and Very Low Returns (VHC-VLR). I insist that our farmers practice
instead Regenerative Agriculture (RA); RA is Very Low Costs-Very High Returns (VLC-VHR)!
That’s the plain economics that I know about Filipino farming. I am an
agriculturist (BSA major in Ag Educ, UP Los Baños 1965) – and that’s enough
economics for me! The economics of farming of those 9 million Filipinos is bad
enough for them!
So, what are our Pinoy Media
waiting for in order to serve the poor Filipino farmers? No, I do not suggest
that they practice negative journalism – their journalism must be what I call “THiNK!
Journalism” that goes like this:
Is it True? If True,
is it Helpful? If Helpful,
is it Inspiring? If Inspiring,
is it Necessary? If Necessary,
is it Kind? THiNK!
Pinoy Media, THiNK! Journalism should make you think! Pinoy Media, I don’t
mean for you to follow exactly my thinking, but I beg you to fight for those 3
million poor Filipino farmers – Beginning Now, Today!@517
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