The amount deducted from a student-journalist’s tuition is reimbursed from the fees the rest of the non-scholar members of the student body disburse. The subsidy is granted and approved by the Students’ Grants Unit, an office working under the college administration. The student-journalists of the Benildean Press Corps receive incentives in the form of tuition subsidy. Just ponder on Murphy’s Law number seven: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. This, along with sensational, sex-embracing, violence-happy tabloids ( Misis, kinatay ni mister: bloody foul), pollutes and adulterates the populace.Īlas, these days, whether we like it or not, parents can only do so much to safeguard their children.
I realize the pathetic probability of justice delayed or never accomplished.īut for crying out loud, whatever happened to the protection of the civilians against malicious media and their vulnerability to irresponsible media hype such as the Lito Glean crusade and its macabre parade of bad publicity? I understand that no amount of street and media exposure could contain the misery they bear heavy on their shoulders. I acknowledge the truth of Lito Glean’s people’s bereavement and rage over the former’s unfortunate murder. The murder is viewed as nothing else but politically motivated (duh). September 16th of 2006, Glean was gunned down at a gas station in Fort Bonifacio, a posh shopping and residential area in central Manila. Was the security chief of Jejomar Binay, Makati Mayor and a major opposition politician. I stood before the wall for a moment, examining the notice and wondering to myself who on earth is this slain man and why a testimonial of his misfortune is on display for pedestrians, both adults and the young at that, to gawk at.Īs a consequence of this encounter, I munched on my breakfast trying especially hard to think of rainbows and daffodils so as not to lose my appetite over a foul display of some poor person’s bloodied remains.įrom an online research, I learned that Lito Glean-the murdered man on the notice. The poster exhibits a bloodied body of a middle aged man with black text screaming Kay Lito Glean. “Ĭase in point: I happened to drop by a Makati outlet of McDonald’s for a later than usual breakfast when a poster glued over a building wall caught my interest. In an article written by Michael Hammerschlag on the copycat effect, he reasoned coherently that “…in a nation of 300 million people there are enough twisted individuals to latch on the sickest example…if it’s drawn clearly enough. The Copycat Effect (coined by Loren Coleman used in his book of the same title) is a tendency of sensational media hype about violence and criminalities to result in more of the same through imitation. However, apart from the triggers mentioned, what else can be taken into account as a justifiable reason for triggering a criminal psyche? Yours truly, for instance, is admittedly morbid-brained (but emphatically not criminal-minded nor a mad cap) this for the reason that I am born of medical practitioners of a mother and father whose daily discussions on hospital deaths over breakfast have been entrenched in the recesses of my subconscious.įorensic psychologists (God bless them), moreover, in a study conducted to determine the triggers of criminal tendencies, arrived at a conclusion that cultural conditioning, psychosis or a person’s traumatic upbringing can elicit criminal propensity. The authorities in the discipline of forensic psychology have analyzed with keen attention how in the name of heaven and hell does society breed criminal-minded, morbid-brained mad caps.
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