Malu Fernandez, one of the most remembered (and most hated) figues on the Pinoy blogosphere because of her display of ascerbic wit on her article about OFWs, is back with a new one about blogging and the nature of Pinoy bloggers on her column in Manila Standard Today last March 10, 2008.

Apparently, it was the Gucci Gang controversy that has inspired Malu Fernandez to write about her article titled “The Problem with Blogging…“, where she said that “blogging is nothing more but a slacker job” and “a medium for lonely people to connect”.

Unfortunately for most of the bloggers without advertising you get paid nothing. If in fact you do get paid then hooray for you. But blogging, aside from Perez Hilton and the other big time bloggers (you know who you are) is for me a slacker job or a medium and pastime for lonely people to connect. Unless you’re in bloody Siberia or in a Gulag prison, try stepping outside your comfort zone and turn off the laptop or pc, you just might find some real live people to talk to instead of typing away in cyber space.

Even though she stressed that she is not saying these stuffs because of the way Bloggers have treated her during the last Malu Fernandez Controversy, I can’t help but feel that there’s still a hint of hatred on her heart towards bloggers (Well, with the way most of us treated her, who could blame her?).

The difference between a journalist and a blogger is that journalists have to adhere to certain guidelines that govern the freedom of speech. And whatever a journalist chooses to write about—be it popular or unpopular—we do not hide behind an anonymous name and are resigned to the fact that we have to take as much as we dish out.

Unfortunately that’s the kind of nation we have become, a bunch of wishy-washy whiners who whine about everything under the sun and found the blog sphere to be the new medium for whining.

You can read more of her observations Malu Fernandez on Blogging here.

Although she does have a point on some of her arguments, there are some things that I would like to clarify to her. But I’ll hold out my reactions for now and wait until tomorrow.

Happy blogging!

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