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Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Cabaero: FPJ’s online memorial
By Nini B. Cabaero
Beyond thirty
One of the innovations this year of the Sun.Star website at www.sunstar. com.ph is in the form of online memorials for people who have passed along and whose deaths had generated worldwide concern and action.
This is in line with the Sun.Star objective of creating communities not only offline as in the printed news circulated within geographical boundaries like provinces and cities in the country, but also online to an interconnected world where anyone in any part of the world with a computer, phone line and modem could connect to.
Such online communities could be equally if not even more dynamic as their local counterparts as these venues for participation receive inputs from anyone, not limited to Filipinos by birth or heritage, anywhere.
On online memorials, it started with one on assassinated Cebu lawyer Arbet Sta. Ana-Yongco, followed by another on Davao-based independent photojournalist Gene Boyd Lumawag. Its last for this year is on Fernando Poe Jr., king of Philippine movies and erstwhile presidential contender, whose passing away was significant in many ways.
Poe’s online memorial put up at www.sunstar.ph/fpj has become a virtual town hall meeting among people who died a little with his passing away and vowed to continue his fight, or those who infused pragmatism, no matter how blunt, into his death.
“If there is one great artist Filipinos should be proud of, it’s FPJ. He is the pride of the entertainment industry and of every Filipino.
We should not contest anymore if he could have been a good President or not because, no matter how we agree or disagree, we will still end up disagreeing. So better we agree to disagree. Anyway, we all have our opinion of whether he would have been a good President or not; however, no one will end up winning because we could never prove this. Not anymore.
We should just focus on his strength and thank him for all his contributions as an artist. I am not an FPJ fan but I am also not his critic. I just believe he’s better than most of us,” colleen14@yahoo.com said.
Ruth of ruthbaste@yahoo.com said, “Poe’s death is an eye opener to all Filipinos. Millions of people are saying nakaka-awa si FPJ. But, don’t you know that he is so lucky because he is back with his Creator and there is no corruption in heaven? We should pity ourselves dahil andito pa tayo sa lugar ng makasalanan. I’m just blessed and lucky enough because nandito ako sa abroad. Kahit sino pa ang Presidente ng Pilipinas, kung ang bawat isa ay may katangian ni Juan Tamad at maka-sarili, wala pa ring mangyari, Lubog pa rin ang Pilipinas! Let peace and love begin with ourselves!”
(e-mail: ninicab@sunstar.com.ph)
(December 28, 2004 issue)
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