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Dear Cong. PJ Garcia,I admire your authorship of this blog that unmasks the true nature of so-called icons of the media industry in Cebu. Please allow me to express my thoughts on the icon of Cebu media Atty. Pachico Seares.Despite all the flaws you detailed in this blog, you certainly cannot discount his great contributions to local journalism and in making Sun.Star Cebu what it is now. Throughout his career, he has gained such prestige and honor that could not be taken from him.To preserve this prestige and honor however, I don’t know if you agree with me that it is high time for him to retire.The following are my reasons:1. There is no prestige in clinging on as editor in chief when his batch in the Sun*Star family including CEO and president Atty. Jesus Garcia Jr. have practically retired to give way to a new generation of managers and leaders.2. There is no prestige in the failure of Atty. Seares to read the sign that time has passed him by. For example, my friends inside Sun*Star confided that he has continued to erect obstacles to the flowering of the publishing firm’s online initiative and integration of editorial operations to support investments to harness the Internet. Top management has shown savvy in looking forward to the Internet as the wave of the future. Atty. Seares has continually insisted on giving Sun*Star Cebu the priority revealing his old and passé Second Wave mindset. Sun*Star needs to assert its Third and Fourth Wave leadership. 3. There is no prestige in preventing the present crop of younger journalists from taking on the reins of leadership in Sun*Star. Remember how former Sun*Star stalwarts broke out from the Seares straitjacket to spread their wings in other publications? Atty. Seares seems to be waiting for another exodus to happen.4. There is no prestige in the spreading talks about Atty. Seares using his Sun*Star position to help his law office win cases.5. There is no prestige in the obvious use of the position as editor in chief to support the cause of political friends like Cong. Raul del Mar and the rest of BO-PK to the detriment of the family who owns Sun*Star. 6. There is no longer any prestige in not knowing how to exit gracefully. The media landscape in Cebu has changed tremendously with the rise of a new generation of media leaders like Eileen Mangubat and Connie Fernandez of Cebu Daily News, Jerry Tundag of The Freeman, and Johnrey Saavedra of Banat News. Atty. Seares is a relic of the past desperately lording over as an aging paramount media leader.GANI