By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net

A FORMER and a current Filipino journalist have created a blog countdown that aims to gather the sentiments of Filipinos who are impatiently waiting for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to step down in 2010.

“It’s certainly not inspired by (Antonio) Trillanes IV. I’m not a fan. But yes, the Manila Peninsula incident did just happen to bring up the point again. Whether you believe in coups or not, everybody agrees that 2010 is a long way away,” said Bangkok-based journalist Roby Alampay in an interview, as he introduced the Ang Tagal Naman blog.

“Ang Tagal Naman” is a Filipino phrase that roughly translates to “This is taking too long.”

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WOULDN’T it be ironic if the alternative media represented by blogging/citizen journalism would just end up replicating some of the shortcomings of mainstream media?

This was the warning sounded by the editor of the BBC College of Journalism while talking about political journalism and blogging.

Here’s an excerpt from the Journalism.co.uk entry:

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