Percolation is percolatin’ and the PDI’s editorial policies are sucking wind lately. Will they simply publish just anything now? Is anybody in charge of journalistic integrity?

I have a sneaking suspicion Samson Macariola is not the bad guy here. Regardless, both Arlyn de la Cruz and the PDI have some responsibility here.

I know how a journalist can turn the contextual reality of private interview into something entirely different when the article hit’s the presses.

Newsbreak did somewhat of an expose on Arlyn back in 2002. I don’t know Arlyn - she’s definitely got more balls than I do. Nevertheless it’s clear she’s out to make a buck. There’s nothing wrong there but you’ve got to realize her modus operandi. Is she still freelancing? I can only imagine that with her Mindanao connections she saw a huge opportunity to extract a tidy payment from PDI for an exclusive - and Samson may have had no idea what was going down.

From what I can tell, he’s a straight shooter. Scroll down the page here and you can see that he was one of the resource speakers at last year’s Defense & Sporting Arms Show. His co-presenters for the afternoon of July 14 included a talks on “Gun Safety & Responsible Gun Ownership” and “Threat Awareness.” His topic was “Basic Technical Facts about Firearms, Ammunitions & Explosives.”

Here’s a picture of Adamson University’s Civil Engineering batch of ‘84-’85. Is that the same Samson Macariola on the right in the top photo?

I have a suspicion atrocious journalistic practices are at work here. If there are lies in the initial PDI article by Arlyn, and it’s looking more and more like there may be - just what is the PDI going to do about it?

Their editorial here is once again diverting attention away from the issues, like they did with the Isagani Cruz affair . This is not about sub-atomic particles and puffer machines.

Yeah I’m tough on the PDI. They have the capability, and track record, to do better. The question is do they still have the will.