I'm really sorry but I just have to share this.
Not so long a while ago, while I was watching Bandila, I was half listening to the news item about this Filipino teenager who impressed the judges with his talent in America's Got Talent.
Then, the local reporter, (I didn't get the chance to see who it was), just had to add some more commentaries. She was like,
"Ang America's Got Talent ay ang katumbas ng Pilipinas Got Talent,
blah blah..."
I literally had to give the television my signature "Girl, you did not just say that" look, which is a combination of this really disgusted looking expression on my face and both my eyebrows meeting at the center.
I mean, SERIOUSLY?!
Is this the kind of news writing we take pride in?! I mean, how much more redundant can you get? It's like moron-izing your audience into this offensively low level that they're such martians, they don't even know what the similarity of PGT and AGT is.
Sorry, I'm not perfect. But one thing I have come to learn from being a CA student is that, you have to give your audience more credit than that. They are intelligent and rational viewers who knows the difference between a tomato and a toma-to. I'm just affected because I don't want others to think that journalists these days can have the tendency to degrade their audience.
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