Tabloid Journalism; Tabloid Characters

Bahrain is such a small country but this should not be an excuse for the tabloid journalism evident in the English dailies in the island kingdom. This is exacerbated when the subject of the “news” is your compatriots. Now, as if this is not bad, everything becomes ridiculously embarrassing when the news is about "sins of love".

Today, this news about two Filipinas getting at each other because of phone calls made to the ex-boyfriend of one is the kind of press we Filipinos do not deserve.

I will not take any sides on this matter because both of these ladies are embarrassments. I will have to add them to my list of "girls behaving badly" to the detriment of the Philippines.

While I have developed this fixation about being too conscious not to violate the minutest of my host country’s laws, I am afraid not every Filipino is on the same wavelength. Dinala pa sa Bahrain ang kalandian nila! (They have the gall to bring to Bahrain their flirtations!)