I've never really paid much attention to the recent news about the article written by a Ms. Malu Fernandez in People Asia Magazine wherein our OFWs were maligned without mercy.  It was only until last night when Moy Ortiz, Artistic Director of The Company mentioned it in passing while onstage that I got curious about this hoopla.  So I googled it up and found the links to the articles.

( Click here for page 1 / Click here for page 2 )

After reading the pages I said to myself, people should always be given the benefit of the doubt.  There could have been other reasons as to why her article turned out this way. 

Consider these:

The writer could have been so busy socializing that she completely forgot her deadline.  It usually happens.  Writers even have a creative excuse for it.  Call it "writer's block" or a "dry spell", it is usually the best way to define an old high school habit known as cramming.

And speaking of high-school, could it be that the writer had some unresolved high-school issues to deal with?  After all, who slashes their own wrists nowadays?  That's so seventies and eighties.  Not even the angst-ridden teens in high-school resort to that these days.  Nowadays, the kids just blog.

These are just some thoughts on it.  I don't even want to go on to and waste blog space.

Perhaps Ms. Fernandez just forgot the writers' Rule # 1 which is "to be a ruthless editor of your own work".  Then again, how can one exercise that when time is short and the press is about to run (hence the lack of time for the magazine's editors to also dish-out the article)?

After all is said and done, it could just be a case of a deadline about to be missed.