Economic president on the internet
In Korea, there is this blogger only known as “Park” who is known as the economic president on the internet, who started making some economic predictions. Well, some of his predictions were correct, like the collapse of the Lehman Brothers. He is now charged with “spreading false economic information on the Internet“. Now, if you may know, South Korea, is probably the world’s most wired and tech savvy nation. One thing I know from them is that, although they can all afford to have internet at home, they prefer internet cafe’s where they could socialize and they are into this freedom of speech on the Internet big time! So, it was quite surprising to hear an arrest like this. You would think that they only do this in Malaysia where if you say just one shit thing against the government, you are so well done!
Bloggers as journalists?
Is there a paradigm shift happening? I don’t know about you, but I have always believed that bloggers are not journalists and so therefore, we should not be subjected to the cringy and strictest journalism rules. Yet in blogging, there’s the grayest of all the grayest rules ever. Heck, one could just even blatantly issue some wicked warnings and threat to you! Remember this??? With the arrest and the eventual prosecution of this blogger, I am now thinking if this is the start of some shifting rules for bloggers. Will we now be subjected to the very strict journalism rules? Personal blogs gone? Rants and shits and fuck you gone?!
Responsibility
But the South Korean blogger’s case was different in that, he was so powerful in his blog that he could sway public opinion and he’s got hordes of followers who believed his predictions. Now, when that happens, as a blogger, you now begin to have certain obligations and responsibilities to your audience. Correct? Transparency perhaps or a little more like 90% information about you has to be precise. At least you have your 10% to be private. If you chose to. That’s why we all have pen shit names. What do you think? I mean, Reyna Elena is so fuckin’ known to the bloody blogworld already I can’t even hide my breast no more! Leche!
But you see, here’s the problem with this guy.
Park described himself in Web entries as a former securities firm employee with a master’s degree earned in the United States and experience in the field of corporate acquisitions and takeovers, according to local media. His deeply analytical style and sometimes prescient forecasts made Park a star on the Web, earning him the nickname “economic president on the Internet.” But prosecutors said Park was an unemployed resident of Seoul who studied economics on his own after graduating from a vocational high school and a junior college with a major in information and communication.
Punyeta! Ulol na to! Vocational ek-ek lang pala ang leche! Hahaha! Baka copy and paste ang ginawa and stole all the entries from Reyna? Di kaya?!
No arrest here
But, makes me wonder. How come nobody arrested Igor Panarin on his forecast that the United States will disintegrate in 2010? What about Marc Faber who made a forecast that the biggest bubble of them all are long-term US securities and that the US will go bankcrupt? Does this boils down to a “blogger’s authority”? Meaning, the South Korean blogger was an economic impostor! Hahaha!
Do you have what it takes?
It looks to me like – yes – you can blog absolutely anything on the face of the earth. As a matter of fact, you could just be a Grade 5 graduate and still blog about magnetic levitations or the weather in Saturn to your hearts content, who cares. But if you and your blog starts to weild certain powers, it’s plain banana. Don’t fool them with your credentials. Bottom line, do you really have what “it” takes to blog about the topic that you blog? Of course, this question applies to me too.
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ayay hahaha grabe na toh
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reynz Reply:
January 11th, 2009 at 12:02 am
wag kang matakot hahaha me mga madam auring namang manghuhula na di nila ginagalaw weather weather lang yan haha
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Hahahaha crazy people.. i feel bad about bambee though..
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reynz Reply:
January 11th, 2009 at 12:00 am
well, look at him reezen, he is supposed to be anonymous, nadale den, kaya tigilan ako nang mga anonymous dyan na akala mo di matatalupan. they will be known. hahaha
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do you really have what “it” takes to blog about the topic that you blog? Of course, this question applies to me too. hahahaha! tarush eber!
we do, your heightness, we do!
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reynz Reply:
January 10th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
hahaha! pwede naman kasi mag blog ang let’s say gaya ko who has no clue on say architecture right? after 2 or three entries lalabas at lalabas na abno pala ako sa area na yan hahaha
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hahaha, that is y i luv the internet. May nabasa ako somwer, isang tao not a college grad pero VERY talented. On the net, he has an american name, address, ssn, CCs, paypal etc. earns lots from online -consultancy.
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reynz Reply:
January 10th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
mocs, sino? hint! hahaha! ang ganda nung video na nasa blog mo! ma-pik-ap nga! hahaha
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And so the old saying goes, you never know you’re just corresponding with a dog randomly hitting the keys. Nyak.
What about bloggers being subject to journalism rules?
It defeats the purpose of the role of the free-wheeling blogosphere as a perfect foil to Old Media.
But in the event that blogging will replace Old Media in the future as a main source of news and info, then the blogosphere will ultimately be subject to some rules, because a free-wheeling blogosphere will ultimately be exploited by assholes.
My two cents? A bit of chaos and a bit of rules, because only a fool trusts either.
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reynz Reply:
January 11th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Hey PDI,
I believe the paradigm shift as far as online-media-journalism eke k has already happened. The print media and broadcast media are already the ones reading the blogs for news that they could report. Bloggers still pick up most of what they blog about from the media but they’re (print and broadcast media) reading us hahaha
In fact their readership has continually gone down. I remember the Philadelphia Inquirer was reporting their readership going down like crazy. I’m sure this is not exclusive to PDI.
The draw kasi which I’m sure you already know is the personal nature in our blog. Korak?
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I totally agree. Bloggers aren’t journalists and they shouldn’t be held under the same rules. Freedom of speech should apply in our case.
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reynz Reply:
January 11th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
hi lizz,
can you imagine that happening? then we’d all be reading plastic entries. hahaha
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well, blogging is all about freedom of speech. i can say what i want to say about my country and the government that runs it. my credential and the only thing i need to have the qualification and right to do it?
i pay my taxes.
but still, i have to put money where my mouth is. one cannot just claim to be an expert on something unless you really are. like what happen with that Park guy. besides, almost all south koreans are named park.
just to be on the safe side? expert or not, always claim to be a jackass. it stings better.
one thing some of our kababayans are mistaken though, hindi porket wala ako sa pinas, eh i cease the right to talk about issues back home. nobody has the monopoly of nationalism, it’s a given right.
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reynz Reply:
January 11th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
@buraot,
yeap, credentials has really got nothing to do with blogging. Only when you start peddling stuff like online consulting of some sorts or like this South Korean blogger who’s giving predictions that’s being used by his readers – now that’s what makes it wrong and that’s where one needs to be open about their credentials. Otherwise, blog as you like hahaha
I share the same sentiment with you on blogging about the Flippines. I am as much frustrated about the every day in your face blatant corruption and abuse of power from these people entrusted to uphold the law – whereas – we “the people” are out here, making sure that we send something back to the Flippines in the form of “OFW remittances” so that there would be spending in the Philippines to drive the local economy, yet tayo pa ang titirahin that – “you’re not even the FLippines”. You wanna know who made that comment to me? Si Rockstar. Hahaha
I can be in Pluto. I can be in Pasig. J’aime mon patria adorada and I will continue to make noise as my own contribution to making life better at home (ngek ninakaw ko ang linyang yan ki Tita Ellen Tordesillas! Hahaha) . And by the way – so should you. Hahaha!
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arg, no ba yun. minsan talaga ang lakas ng pantasya ng mga tao, buti sana kung hindi sa mga topics na sensitive oks lang e. sa blogging kasi, mas mabilis ang ikot ng infos.
at dun sa sinabi mo about mag ingay tungkol sa pagpapaganda ng pinas… agree din ako dun.
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actually, mapa blogger ka man or nagsusulat ka lang sa school paper, we all are subjected to the same rules when it comes to libel and slander and such.
we have the right to say what we want to say, but of course, we have to back it up with something. we also have to remember, while we have the right to free speech, others have certain rights too.
i can call GMA pandak simply because it is true. and while i can call her a bitch, that doesn’t mean i am right, it simply means, she won’t bother looking my way and file a case against me. unless perhaps kung kasing sikat ako nyang south korean na yan.
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Wow, ngayong lang nabasa ito ng lowla Snow mo…Hmmm, seriously, kung totoo nga yung sinasabi niya na forte niya ang acquisitions and takeovers…hindi malabong totoo sinasabi niya kasi usually naman sa acquisitions/takeovers may hindi talagang company nagsu-survive…no matter how big it was…
why did i say so? i used to analyze similar data at usually ganun nga nangyayari…
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OK lang naman kahit anong i-blog mo. Kahit against sa isang tao, bagay, hayop o engkanto. Basta’t siguraduhin lang na may kasunod na dahilan yung sinabi mo. Halimbawa, pag sinabi kong “Isinusumpa ko ang prof ko. At hinihiling kong mawalan na sya ng boses para di na makapagsalita kailanman!” Dapat sasabihin ko rin kasunod nun kung bakit. Bakit ko sya isinusumpa? Ipaliwanag nang maayos. Nang sa gayon ay malaman ng mga naliligaw sa page ko na may dahilan ako para isumpa sya at baka suportahan pa nila ko sa hangarin ko.
For me, bloggers are also journalist. Journalism is the art of writing. (Kabisado ko pa meaning ng journalism oh!) Sa pagba-blog, kasama ang opinyon mo (parang sa editorial). Kung masyadong mapanlait, isarado sa publiko ang blog. At siguraduhing walang “friend” na magkakalat gaya ng kay Tracy Borres.
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