65% OF FILIPINOS GETTING MORE ANXIOUS ABOUT
WHERE COUNTRY IS HEADED
MANILA, MARCH 7, 2012 (TRIBUNE) Filipinos
are getting more anxious about the economy and how it affects them, according
to a Laylo Research Strategies survey.
MEDIA, considered to be the fourth estate,
really is the people’s way of seeing the status of our country in terms of our
economy. The increase in prices of our products and services has been
exaggeratedly, if I may say so, shown by the media. We could not really feel
how the prices took its high peak if not by the information delivered by media;
have it exaggeratedly reported or not. Truly the media is an influential
industry.
The
protagonist part of the survey that says that 65% of the Filipinos are anxious
to where our country is headed is the fact that we are aware of what is
happening in our homeland and the media play a vital role of this information. So
say the least, we can see the transparency of our economic depreciation. And
the best thing we can do now or we have now is the information itself and the
fact that we are aware.
On
the other side of the dice, the antagonist part is the economic problem itself.
Filipinos are known of its smiles and joys despite experiencing major or minor
predicaments. But what else can we do is to smile. Could we stop the rise of
high prices? Could we provoke the fall of our economy? If we can, would the
government, being manipulated pre-dominantly by corrupt minds, give us the chance
to do so? This is the antagonist part of this issue, that we cannot do an exact
way to give the Philippines the right path simply because we are not in
authority. If we are, we might be tempted to promote corruption as well. What
is present right now is the absence of concrete solutions and concrete plans.
That is how I asses the economic status of our country today. We may be the
antagonist but ourselves could also be the protagonist as well.
