Stick to mediocrity

The libel charge filed this week by the city prosecutor's office against Leo Lastimosa warns us of what happens when a mediocre broadcaster tries his hand at being an incompetent writer.

Today's SunStar story about the libel charge reminds us of another mediocre SunStar writer whom one might call "self-contained". (Translation: "full of himself")

onion-skinned remembers that the Governor filed an administrative complaint against this same reporter, who engaged in fraud and misrepresentation in order to get documents from the Capitol.

Cheking Seares is still sitting on the case.

Probably because this reporter is being protected by a female editor who fills the newsroom with jealous rants against the Governor and her family. (More about her in subsequent blind items.)

Or another female editor who resents the Governor because her decisions regarding the 93-1 lots directly affect the editor's family. (More about her in subsequent blind items.)

I hear that even some reporters are biting their tongues. A reporter who gets away with fraud, and who is given a column (unusual for a reporter), reads too much like "sacred cow", and the editors' actions, smelling too much like its bodily waste.