Dear Correspondent:

You are so insightful and I think I will reward you with something, perhaps soon.

But you know, dear Correspondent, a blogger obviously felt alluded to and has hidden behind lotsa verbal deadwood. I will leave Dana to defend herself and her views because I have 100% confidence that she can competently do so in the face of fact-twisting and misrepresentation. I think a blogger saw so many things in her blog post, so many goblins, and went to even more absurd lengths to twist stuff even further — and made the makers of Alaxan FR so giddy (parang masel na pinili-pilipit).

Anyway, dear correspondent, judging by the reaction I have read, the deed has been done and someone took it personally — as expected. The reaction is quite interesting, to say the least.

As to the charge that I have been writing so tangentially as to betray the journalism creed, I suppose I have a right to write as I see fit here in my own blog. This blog does not employ me; I employ it as a sounding board for my personal ideas, including the non-debate of “blogging vs. journalism”.

If I proclaim this blog as a news/media outlet, then we can expect some strict rules such as full identification, full revelation and full disclosure. But right now, it is my personal happiness to write this way. This is one of the rules I’ve set — at the moment — to govern my blog. You may tell me that blogging gurus and blogging stars don’t like it, but I think we cannot impose such rules on others who deem it as sort-of “limiting”.

I will just let the bloggers be the judge of what I wrote and the reaction that followed.

Right now, I have to go out and get a breath of fresh air. I may die laughing if I don’t.

Cordially yours,
Tonyo