WE’VE just started the forum proper, but unfortunately it seems the promised PLDT wifi access is still unavailable. Where are those PLDT guys anyway, heh

So I’m just writing this down on WordPad first so I can upload it later when I go back to my room, where I activated the wifi access last night.

Media Nation organizer Chito Salazar of pagbabago@pilipinas asks the speakers to give an abridged version of their opening remarks last night, since some of the delegates were not present. He notes that the organizers decided to cut the program short last night and move the keynote speech of US reporter, editor and columnist James R. Dickenson to this morning, to give more people the chance to hear what he has to say.

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HERE’S a video clip of Ky Johnson, assistant representative of The Asia Foundation, giving his opening remarks at Media Nation or MN4.1, “Political Reporting and the Hazard of Compromise,” which is Part 1 of the 4th Philippine Summit for the News Media, shortly before the welcome dinner last night.

For more videos, visit the INQUIRER.net Videos channel on YouTube.

I’M blogging from the Holiday Inn in Clark, Angeles, Pampanga City, where I’m staying to cover and participate in this year’s edition of Media Nation or MN4.1, “Political Reporting and the Hazard of Compromise,” which is touted as Part 1 of the 4th Philippine Summit for the News Media.

We left the INQUIRER.net office at around 2: 30 p.m. I hitched a ride with INQUIRER.net editor in chief JV Rufino, along with Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist and blogger Manuel L. Quezon III. Our INQUIRER.net reporter Thea Alberto is also here, though she took the shuttle and arrived earlier.

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