True moral outrage? EDITORIAL 04/12/2011

True moral outrage?

EDITORIAL

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04/12/2011
The Willing Willie controversy over a young boy doing a gyrating “macho dance” has gone too far, what with even the media giving the thumbs up to the program advertisers’ boycotting the show while the censors body Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), along with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) get into the picture with child abuse and child exploitation charges.

And even Malacañang has gotten into the act. So what is this, all for riding on the controversial issue and scoring media points, or is this a question of getting politics into the picture?

Just too many are riding on the issue, making it bigger than it really is.

But it must be asked: Just what is it that the so-called critics want? To prevent child exploitation, kill the show or get the host, Willie Revillame, banned from doing the top-rated show?.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110412com1.html