"Dela Rosa: 'Villain's welcome' in Manila for

Quiapo road rage suspect" "Death" without physical contact

                There are many ways to hurt a person and according to PNP chief Dela Rosa, he will give Vhon Tanto, the suspect for the murder of a cyclist during a road rage, a villain’s welcome that will be of killing words, and stares that would make the person feel small.

                In the article, there are quotes of Dela Rosa’s words about him going to give the suspect a villain’s welcome once he arrives from Masbate, the place where the suspect was arrested. The chief’s personality is always interesting since his promotion and everyone’s attention is on him. The article focuses on the interview with Dela Rosa regarding his thoughts on welcoming the suspect and his words, for example, when asked what kind of welcome it would be he says “Nakakamatay na mura, nakakamatay na tingin, basta yung matutunaw nalang sa kinauupuan niya,”, interests us since he is known to have a hard personality.

                Rappler is a social news network that aims to inspire social change with news. Using technology, they spread news with their veteran journalists who are trained in broadcast, print and web news. The site is influential and is inspiring smart conversations like when a person shares a news coming from rappler in facebook and smart discussions between people happen. The site has an interactive system where you can input the emotion you felt about a certain news and this helps them to act on helping people make the correct decisions in their lives. The site profits from the many advertisements that flash on the side of the screen or maybe within texts. These advertisements can also appear in between pictures of news materials, which can sometimes be annoying. The site can also to choose to write news materials about certain products and that way they can promote a certain product by their own will or a company’s. Even in the page of the news on the chief and the road rage suspect there are commercials of products. Being influential, they can change a person’s perception with a single news article and can choose what the people should know.

                For the people who are active when it comes to politics and are old enough, they may think that the chief is doing his job well thanks for his hard personality. They may connect this to the president and think that the president decided well when he promoted Dela Rosa to a 4-star general. Some people may not connect it to the president and just think that the chief is just a tough person. The young, who might read this because the website is accessible to anyone, may think that this person is a “bad” person that thinks of mistreating suspects. This can leave an impression to a young person and the article may change their perception of the police. They might also pick up on the idea of mistreating a person with words and about hurting a person physically, as the chief implied when he joked that he would teach the suspect how to box.

                In the article, we are following the thoughts of Chief Dela Rosa and the interviewer asks Dela Rosa on how he plans to welcome the person and on how he is planning to treat the person once he comes.

                The article is one-sided since it only tends to Dela Rosa’s thoughts and the suspect is just the suspect, which means the perspective of the suspect is not included in the article. So, rather than talking about Dela Rosa and the supect’s thoughts, the article already focuses on how he is going to treat the suspect. Also, the interviewer did not ask about why he should do those or how he is going do to it.

                The news article is interesting since it involves the newly promoted general and Rappler made the right decision to write articles about him since this would mean the site would fair even better and profit more because of the netizens flowing in. The veteran journalist that wrote the article certainly knew what to write about during that time.

                In the campaign against drugs, the two names that stand out are of our president’s and this chief’s, but let us not forget that the chief also has duties including this. Many of the news nowadays involve the campaign and our focus can be easily shifted by media sources. This news article at least talks about something different and this can help correct other’s perceptions.

                Getting involved in politics is important because it enables us to become aware of the status of our government and helps us understand news articles like this about the PNP chief “killing” a person with words and stare. News articles like this give people an idea of who the chief is so you should read this in case you are curious of the chief’s personality.

source: (http://www.rappler.com/nation/141344-villains-welcome-manila-road-rage-suspect)

-Bryann Garcia