Monday, May 16, 2005

WHY I'D RATHER READ THE FUNNIES THAN THE NEWS

Yesterday I had some time to kill before going to the airport to fetch Tasha and Jaja who were coming home from Iloilo after the Palarong Pambansa. So I leisurely went through the newspaper and after reading several articles and commentaries all I felt was aggravation.

PDI was continuing a series on the PPI case and the writer painted PPI as having rigged the whole thing so they could get away with their obligations to their 34,000 plus planholders.

Ex-NEDA chief Cielito Habito narrated his experience of having to go through about 2 hours of traffic just to get to Laguna, a trip that would just take about 30 minutes if traffic had been managed properly.

There was a piece on the VAT law which basically said that the lawmakers passed on to GMA the responsibility of raising VAT to 12%.

The problem with the way journalists present news is that in the end you get a feeling that nothing's going right in this world and that we're basically doomed.

Thank God there are the funnies (aka Comics.) At least they give us something to laugh about.

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