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Commentary: Welcome GMA-7! |
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Written by Ben Fer. Hortaleza, Jr. / pia.gov.ph
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Dagupan City (6 May) -- THE coming of television giant GMA-7 finally with its studios and crew to Dagupan can only be for the greater good of public service and information in Pangasinan and its four cites.
Another way of looking at GMA's chosing to be in Pangasinan,
specifically Dagupan, is that there's a whole wide and fertile ground
out there for public service and news-entertainment that eager serves
can fill and often eagerly do.
Indeed with its vast area and vibrant economic potentials, Pangasinan
is every agency's and investor's dream for a playing field and
commanding presence. Its people always open to welcome newcomers and
fresh opportunities, it is just now slowly realizing that for it to
attain the pinnacle of success seemingly already achieved by its
counterpart giant provinces like Cebu and Rizal, it must empower its
people with information to turn their lives-and manner of
thinking-around.
Media is a vital part of such empowerment. While the province already
has a surfeit of newspapers and radio stations to begin with, the
coming of television into the landscape completes the equation.
From here on, and sooner not later, with the combined effective reaches
of these media forms, not a single corner, not a lone nook of the
province, will ever be caught and labeled as "information poor." The
modern-day purveyors of news and information who set out to do their
daily task of bringing the news to the people where it happens and when
it happens will see to that. (PIA-Pangasinan)
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