February 12, 1986
Business Day

I weep for those men and women whose professional reputations have been ruined by their participation in the notoriously-biased coverage of the election count.

I do not refer to Ronnie Nathanielsz, Rita Gaddi Baltazar, Jaime Opinion, and the older brother of Roman Cruz, Jr. who long ago sealed the Faustian bargain of selling their minds, hearts, arms, legs (plus what’s between them), but mostly their mouths to the Mephistopheles in Malacanang.

Rather, I refer to people like Post Office’s Roilo Golez and the National Computer Center’s Pedro Baraoidan.

It took about ten years to remake Nathanielsz, at one time (believe it or not) an ethical professional newscaster, into a shrill, shameless, supercilious shill that he is today.

It took less than one week to make Baraoidan and Golez sound like Nathanielsz.
 

WILSON G. ABAYA