Truth. What exactly is truth? What do we believe is the truth? Nowadays, truth is relative. The intent to serve it on a silver platter just wouldn't wash. Why? Because it all depends if that person is popular or not--that's the bait--and only when folks believe it to be the truth despite wanting to hang their heads in shame by not telling the whole truth. Confused? Don't be. Over the centuries, world historians have always lied, made up myths and turned them into sordid, sorry facts, which they themselves, have had difficulty expounding. Even if we'd like to know the interpretation of truth, per se, we'd still be in a quandary where competition to get to the truth, or to tell the truth becomes a byword for more half-truths. 90% of Filipino journalists have no time to tell the truth to their readers; their own interpretation is good enough for the likes of us. At least,that's their belief, even if they don't get to the bottom of the truth, they still have it in their minds that they are, in fact, telling the truth, or have already told the truth, only that we were too slow to get the drift, or too smart to tell them off that they're liars, too. When journalists become corrupted, which is easy to see especially during, before and after the elections in the Philippines, who'd the people want to believe? Truth becomes a one big lie when sullied with countless interpretations by journalists. These are the very people who throw away those chances to help counter the ill effects of bad doses of negative publicity. Who can blame them? These journalists allow themselves to wallow in their own set of puzzling motives. What right do these people have to write lies about people they don't like, and convince us that they are telling the truth?
