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The Malu Fernandez fiasco is nothing short of phenomenal. What started out as blog posts has snowballed into a tsunami of opinion ranging from downright condescending and insulting, to personal attacks, howls of bigotry and pretense, calls for boycotts, and quite a few defenses. As for the death threats, it might be true but just mind boggling as well.
What particularly caught my attention was how mainstream media reacted. While the conflagration spread through the Philippine blogosphere like wildfire and crossing over via reactionary and condemning statements from concerned groups, alas, the greater media was caught flat footed that it was only when the concerned author apologized and handed her resignation that it merited a report from ABS-CBN’s primetime news 23 August, a blog post in GMA News, 24 August and a front page story in the newspaper Philippine Daily Inquirer’s 25 August issue.
Was it a case of a delayed reaction? Or was it a case of a wait-and-see attitude considering that its one of their own?
