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Bring it on, Manila Standard. Let’s talk about the real issue.

We will call for a renewed boycott on Manila Standard. Our next post will be focused on the plan of action, how everyone can participate. No longer will we ask anything of Malu Fernandez, for clearly she is incapable of doing the right thing on the issue that she started. Let us go for the big fish, where few have succeeded in this nation, perhaps we can start the trend. Manila Standard and its management must see the wrongs of their action or inaction. To hide behind the veil of Freedom of Speech is a false issue, because no one is making Malu Fernandez legally liable, she’s not. She’s free to dish out her own garbage of witty articles. What we are talking about here is how an organization must be socially responsible and respect an entire class.

Let’s define the issue once again, lest Manila Standard define it for us. The issue is about BIGOTRY, DISCRIMINATION, RESPONSIBILITY, and ACCOUNTABILITY.

Note to those who comment, because we are moving towards this worthy endeavor, let us not give Manila Standard more excuses for their inaction. We need your voice on this issue? No need for explitives, because the actions and inaction of Manila Standard Today is damning enough.

They hide behind their own snippets statements, taking a jab where they see fit, and totally ignoring the real issue of discrimination, bigotry, and accountability for their actions. To not have made an actual public statements smacks of an organization with an elitist agenda. I will reiterate it here, this is their fault that we have gone to such great lengths. For they stood silent, thinking that this issue would never reach the critical mass that it did. They were proven wrong, and when their backs were against the wall, their columnists wrote their views on the issue, but still the organization stood silent. It was deafening and is still reverberating into the ears of many of our OFWs. They are trying to turn the tables, take an offensive, and trying to define the issue.

But again, let us keep pounding it into their brains. The issue is BIGOTRY, DISCRIMINATION, RESPONSIBILITY, and ACCOUNTABILITY. None of these were present in this Malu Fernandez controversy, and Manila Standard to this day thinks it can hide under a waning OFW outrage and cries of pleas.

They make no apology, only statements of protocol. The most sad part of their non-action is that they are only hurting themselves and their semblance of credibility. They who have turned a blind eye, stood silent, and has chosen to “reject” the resignation of Malu Fernandez.

OVERBOARD?

It is not that it was an overreaction, but that media reaction was nonexistent, and that the parties involved, for weeks, did nothing, and even to this day, Manila Standard has not issued a public statement but has chosen to make a snippet statement to Media in Focus, which takes another jab that we are determined to be insulted.

Are we determined to be insulted, or are they determined to keep insulting? With their “rejection” of the resignation, that in itself is as big an insult there is. Thank you for the jab Mr. spokesperson, but we can punch back.

So, in the end, it was media’s non-existent reaction and the deafening silence of the parties involved that shoved the responsibility towards us.

And we gladly accepted.

tags: malu fernandez, manila standard today