Okay. Something really freaky happened today. I saw Bayani Fernando on TV, in the show called Celebrity Duets. He was with the esteemed Pelita Corales, and they were singing some sort of groovy song. Trust me, it was unintentional. My father was the one watching the show and I, unlucky me, stumbled upon it.
I mean no disrespect, but I find the presence of a public servant (this is in reference to Bayani Fernando and all others) in a TV show other than a news program highly disturbing. It's like an actor-turned politician, how the actor has become a prototype for our next leaders, only this case is in reverse.
I don't like to think of the extreme, but our leaders have a history of getting into show business whenever the...ehem...elections draw near. Commercials, or INFOmercials (as they like to call those sudden appearances of senators/congressmen/who-the-hell-are-yous yapping about this-bill-that-ordinance that they passed/ratified/vouched for or adverts about skin whitening products/champion Pinoy boxers), start popping about twelve months before the elections and highly-suspicious talk show guestings about their fashion sense/family/latest business/whatever invade the boob tube.
I guess our statesmen have realized that the masses look to television for a possible candidate and derive from them a sense of security that sprang from the actors' lives being so out in the open. This kind of mentality shows that Filipinos have truly lost their trust in politicians. Instead, they take the actor and choose the lesser evil during elections. And so our politicos thought, "Hey, why not get into show biz, too? Might increase my popularity ratings a bit."
It's one thing for actors and non-political celebrities to step out of the tube and into the office, but it's completely another thing for respected (relatively speaking, of course) politicians and public servants to invade the equally dirty world of show business.
And, another thing. Saying "I. Am. Sorry." on national television with an obviously fake remorseful face isn't going to score you any brownie points, either.
I mean no disrespect, but I find the presence of a public servant (this is in reference to Bayani Fernando and all others) in a TV show other than a news program highly disturbing. It's like an actor-turned politician, how the actor has become a prototype for our next leaders, only this case is in reverse.
I don't like to think of the extreme, but our leaders have a history of getting into show business whenever the...ehem...elections draw near. Commercials, or INFOmercials (as they like to call those sudden appearances of senators/congressmen/who-the-hell-are-yous yapping about this-bill-that-ordinance that they passed/ratified/vouched for or adverts about skin whitening products/champion Pinoy boxers), start popping about twelve months before the elections and highly-suspicious talk show guestings about their fashion sense/family/latest business/whatever invade the boob tube.
I guess our statesmen have realized that the masses look to television for a possible candidate and derive from them a sense of security that sprang from the actors' lives being so out in the open. This kind of mentality shows that Filipinos have truly lost their trust in politicians. Instead, they take the actor and choose the lesser evil during elections. And so our politicos thought, "Hey, why not get into show biz, too? Might increase my popularity ratings a bit."
It's one thing for actors and non-political celebrities to step out of the tube and into the office, but it's completely another thing for respected (relatively speaking, of course) politicians and public servants to invade the equally dirty world of show business.
And, another thing. Saying "I. Am. Sorry." on national television with an obviously fake remorseful face isn't going to score you any brownie points, either.
1 comments:
agree-- especially with the Bayani Fernando thingy :(
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