Thankless job

Published by rudy Date posted on August 11, 2009

THANKLESS JOB: During the week of Cory Aquino’s passing, I learned all over again what decades of hard-boiled journalism supposedly had taught me — that giving opinion in a newspaper column is akin to cleaning an estero as a matter of civic duty.

The cleaner gets splattered with dirt in the process.

Now, most of us do not mind getting our hands and clothes soiled as we work. But it is disheartening when we find the dirt laced with the cynical hostility or suspicion of narrow minds.

At this point, it is best to give up the thankless chore. It is time for the opinion writer to drop the subject of Cory. –Federico D. Pascual, Jr., Philippine Star

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