1. Female reporter to a male commentator (perceived to be behind the video documentary on media corruption): “Dili man ka limpyo! Modawat ra man ka’g limpyo!”.
For those who do not speak Cebuano, onion-skinned apologizes. The statement is too rich to be translated without losing its flavor. onion-skinned invites readers to come up with a suitable translation. Post as comment. (Winner will win a modest prize. No, not sibuyas bombay.)
2. An editor who was a resource person in that video documentary wasn’t spared the backlash its caused. Reporters, seeing him on the video on media corruption, were said to have muttered: “Unya, ikaw? Solicit diri, Tulis-it didto!”
Said to harbor anti-Capitol feelings, this same senior editor once prohibited his reporter from accompanying Governor Gwen Garcia on a trip to which the reporter was invited to cover. This, despite the fact that his editor-in-chief had approved the trip. Since the top boss, the editor-in-chief, had approved the trip, the reporter went. Soon after, this reporter was yanked off the Capitol beat and transferred elsewhere.
Ironically, this same senior editor was, around the time of trip that offended his sensibilities, going around soliciting funds from public personalities, private individuals and corporations to defray his trip to Singapore.
3. Reporters choked upon hearing a known p.r. practitioner commenting about “corruption in media”. Reporters cried: “Ikaw ma’y nag-corrupt sa media!”
Wondering what could possibly qualify this p.r. practitioner to comment on corruption in media, reporters found the answer. He is making media less corrupt. How? On a recent junket for reporters to an Asian country, arranged by his corporate principal, he gave each reporter $100 out of the $500 budget per reporter given by his principal, and kept the $400 for himself. So there: he minimized media corruption.
onion-skinned.com 
You’re unclean! You only accept cleanly! hehehe
“You’re not neat but you accept what is the net.”
O, kitams? Syalan.
Now, regarding that prize for translation the modesty of which I hope you forget…
I think Gustavo’s on the right track there… 🙂
Buut ipasabot sa “accept cleanly” mao “modawat lang kung sigurong way nakakita labi na taga Sun.Star.” Hahaha!
I heard Sun.Star writers do not want CFBJ to criticize Seares because he is a senior veteran journalist. The icon of Cebu journalism. Mr. Plaridel himself. These writers who are strict about context, ethics, balance, and fairness prefer to look the other way when its Seares who takes quotes out of its original context and resorts to splicing videos, sees no ethical wrongdoing in accusing reporters using a mangled video, and has no use for balance and fairness when he unfairly subjected his video sources to face the ire of reporters by splicing their interviews with the wrong context.
The relevant question is not just whether Cebu’s media is clean or not. The more apt question is, is it fair and objective? Is it not guilty of spinning the news, of influencing public opinion? Does it help favored candidates to win? Do favored politicians get free exposure in the paper? What perks and favors does the media get from politicians directly or through intermediaries?
What is the CCPC which produced the video? Is it an NGO? It seems like an umbrella organization of all media outlets in Cebu because media leaders are there. That can’t be the case as it involves private individuals who are not connected with any media outlet.
CCPC’s website is not updated. I wonder if what it has been doing lately is still part of its being a citizens press council. If it is a council, why is it identified with only one or two persons lately? Just curious.