Pinoy Media Congress

ABS-CBN sponsored a seminar the Pinoy Media Congress held on November 27 and 28 at Miriam College, Quezon City. It was an overwhelming feeling when i heard that we would be attending a seminar. Whereas, some of the well known media practitioners would give an informative lecture on that day. I was very excited for I'm expecting to learn something new from the event. Unfortunately, i didn't expect that the topic on the seminar was only about the network (ABS-CBN). Supposedly, the topics were about the different mediums of mass media. However, most of the issues were related but then they're not supposed to talk about the network itself. Particularly, in reality I learned few things about what is happenning in media from some of the speakers I enjoyed listening at.

Apparently, there was this one speaker who really caught my attention from the inspiring words she left. It was Ms. Joanna Gomez who says "You should start from the bottom" which encouraged me to continue believing. So, in the future i will become a good mass media communicator . According to Ms. Gomez after she graduated in college she started as a production assistant before she reached her current position as Vice President-Television Productions. I realized based on her experience that it doesn't matter at all whether i start in a lower position as long as I love what i'm doing and have the enthusiasm to reach my goals in life.

On the other hand, there was an incident while one UP professor made Karen Davila irritated. I didn't get exactly the question of the professor but the thought was, why would ABS-CBN air programs that doesn't suggest values. Then, Karen bravely answered that the audience has its power to turn off the televison and the power to choose what programs to watch. Somehow, I agree on that note that if people know already one program which doesn't cater values then they shouldn't be watching it. Besides, it's the viewers choice whether what programs they would like to watch.

However, it is also the responsible of the media outlets to bring information and air programs that feeds values to the audience. Anyhow, Media is still the source of everything. Otherwise, the audience would be easily influenced and be manipulated like what is happenning in reality.