Media and Peacebuilding
A speech delivered by Violeta M. Gloria at the Mindanao Peoples Peace Movement Pre-summit at Iligan city; November 5, 2013 . Many years ago, I joined MPPM’s summits to document proceedings. I guess, there were two or three summits that I have documented. Today seems new as I am tasked to share our experiences from our profession. From my perspective, let me begin by saying that media workers are like butterflies. We are involved in the process of cross-pollinating facts, information, and ideas. If you are all flowers and if we have the luxury of time to flutter around you, then we could have an enriched discourse of information and opinions. In contrast, people relied/gather news and information everyday from the media industry: radio, television, online, on print. But as we all knew, the evolution of technology has transformed the media which completely share reports via social network and instantly put stories under public scrutiny and criticism. Thru written s