Coredump

I cannot add anything original to the current news about the blast that rocked Glorietta, a mall in the Makati central business district, so here’s a recap of the event, from bloggers’ perspective:

• Most blog posts are rehashes of news stories from the major mainstream media organizations.
• There are citizen-captured videos posted in You Tube.
• Tonyo posted a couple of videos fresh from the scene of the carnage.
• There’s a “right-wing” commentary, albeit very informative post in the Philippine Commentary blog.
• Here’s a personal viewpoint of the event from a high school social science teacher.
• Commentaries and speculations abound as well, in the usual blogger fashion.

This list is by no means exhaustive, nor would I attempt to make one. This is merely a snapshot of how bloggers perceive the event. It would also be interesting to note how these differ from how mainstream media tackles this.

Surprisingly, media people rose the occasion and — true to their calling — told the news as it is, based on whatever facts they had at the time. Analysis, speculations — editorials — can come later. This is news, this is journalism at work.