Once in a while, but very rarely, we still get a gem of journalism work in TV news, which has degenerated into tabloid crime and celebrity reportage and thus, explains the Filipinos’ shallow political discourse and culture.

ABS-CBN TV’s 6:30 p.m. news the other night had a short, but very meaty, piece entitled, “What happened to the PDAF scam 3 years later?” Another version with a more self-explanatory title in Filipino: “200 mambabatas nadawit sa PDAF scam, di pa naiimbestigahan.” (“200 legislators involved in PDAF scam, not yet investigated.”)

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