Revolutionizing Philippine Journalism, Starting With Agriculture Under William Dar


Secretary of Agriculture William Dar/Manong Willie is an original thinker himself – why can’t aggie journalists be innovative?

We are in The Age of Social Media – the above image indicates 16 media, but there is more. Never has there been a plethora, superabundance of social media, very different from the old media of print, radio and TV.

The image above, from Phys.org[1], accompanies the article “Social Journalists And Social News Media Logic When Social Media Is Adopted In Journalism” written by the University of Gothenburg, 27 August 2019.

Studying Swedish journalists’ use of social media since 2011, Ulrika Hedman says, “There is a concern that the use of social media couldchange journalism and the professional roles of journalists fundamentally” (my italics). Could? I say: Should! Let’s do it!

In the Philippines, nobody is talking about journalists employing social media. Now, I wanted to be the one to revolutionize PH media in the service of agriculture, that is why yesterday, I created this blog, PAJacks – Philippine Agricultural Journalists Advancing Agriculture Aided By Community Knowledge & Science.

Today, with this free blog PAJacks, in Blogger.com, which is owned by Google:

I propose that we begin to use social media consciously to pursue the national growth of PH Agriculture with and without (submerged) social unwellness.

Such unrest has been brought about since January last year by the Rice Tariffication Law; and since the middle of March this year by the Enhanced Coronavirus Lockdown, we cannot go out and do our thing – now then, social media is the perfect vehicle!

Since I am a blogger, and have been seriously and enjoyably blogging for the last 15 years, since 2005:

I see blogging as the social media power to tap, today via:

PAJacks, the Philippine Agricultural Journalists Advancing Agriculture Aided By Community Knowledge & Science.

And since yesterday, when I created PAJacks, I have been inviting anyone who cares and dares to write to help advance the New PH Agriculture given and because of the complex of Obstacles it has been facing especially since the RTL was passed on 14 February 2019, the International Day of Love becoming the National Day of Love in the Philippines for importers of rice – and it has been lovers’ quarrels since then.

Today, I am inviting Filipino columnists, editors, journalists, preachers, proselytizers, speakers, writers to submit their articles – news-views – of 500 words or less to be published in PAJacks, almost instantly, within the morning, afternoon or evening of emailing at frankahilario@gmail.com. Note: when I say news-views, I mean a mixture of news and your personal views. I may offer advice in content & context (slant); I will certainly edit it for grammar if necessary.

PAJacks is free blogging for a better PH Agriculture, not to forget the poor farmers and fishers.

Yes, we Filipino word-idea geniuses will use social media, as Ms Ulrika and the Swedish journalists fear, with this blog PAJacks, we will “change journalism and the professional roles of journalists fundamentally.”

Was not National Hero Jose Rizal a rebel journalist first & foremost?!@517





[1] https://phys.org/news/2019-08-social-journalists-news-media-logic.html



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