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Please stop sending personal attacks to Ezra Acayan. He means well, I think. But Ezra invalidating Patreng's perspective and feelings on the Tina Panganiban Perez question then proceeding to publicly lecture her and Tina about what is good journalism is classic mansplaining.
While Ezra's call for his colleagues to be more circumspect about their words is valid, the manner and the words he used are equally problematic.
He is taking the position of the male authority figure gratuitously inserting himself in an issue between two women that was for all intents and purposes already resolved when Patreng defended Tina.
Granted, Tina could have phrased the question better but Ezra could have also phrased his calling out of Tina better as well. First of all, who appointed Ezra as the arbiter of what good and bad journalism is?
Second, how is it okay for Ezra to tell Patreng what and how she should feel about the entire situation? And third, at least Tina brought donations to the Community Pantry, did Ezra even bother? That was the whole point of this afterall, helping those in need.
Ezra is fond of calling out his fellow journalists for their faults but he is severely lacking in self-awareness bordering on hypocrisy.
He previously raised a raucous by indignantly saying GMA Network exploits their subjects by asking some of the people they interview to film themselves and not paying them. He regularly self-righteously alleges exploitation of the people interviewed by his colleagues.
What he doesn't tell you is that TV folks actually send help in cash or in kind to their subjects on a regular basis. Has Ezra done this in his long years of practice or does he just "exploit" his subjects by capitalizing on the personal tragedies of the people he photographs?
I would really like to know. And lastly, how would he like that question asked? Or should we all just pretend that question was unnecessary?
