Category: General

By Ellen Tordesillas
PJR Reports
Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility
September-October 2005

There’s nothing profound about why I went into journalism.

Writing is my only marketable skill.I can’t dance. I can’t sing. I’m not gifted with marketing savvy to make it as a saleswoman. I’m too disorganized to be a secretary.

But I have always been curious about other people. I want to be where the action is.

When I was in highschool in Iloilo City, I went out with a friend shopping. While walking, we noticed that a couple ahead of us was quarreling. While other pedestrians avoided the couple, I told my friend that we should follow them. From a verbal quarrel, the fight became physical. The woman picked up a stone and threw it at the man. He ducked and the stone hit my face.

I went home with a bandaged forehead.