The media in the Philippines is now under scrutiny. I waited and waited, until I realised that there were no media people or organisations that were going to speak up. In my subsequent posts, I raised the question of what was the reason just two journalists were willing to challenge the stories. That the person asked me not to divulge his name for fear of suffering retribution from his colleagues stunned me. “These are college graduates from UP [University of the Philippines], UST [University of Santo Tomas], Ateneo who studied media.