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Saturday, January 19, 2008

KB24 on staples center’s boo…


I was dismayed by the manner Kobe crucified the fans by expressing and I quote "I thought it was terrible," Kobe Bryant said after the game. "If [fans] want to do that, they can stay home”. Look who’s talking? Didn’t he was the Kobe Bryant who did complained when player around him were as not as productive as today? Did he not say soiled languages on the issue of Bynum then at the parking lot? Did he not dirty mouthed Dr Buss last summer because of disappointment as regards to the supporting cast around him being not helpful as much as necessary to merit team decency?

You simply failed to remember those trying times Kobe, we supported you, all the way in your advocacy to have a decent supporting cast and even forget the foul words you have said. Many of NBA sportswriters and fans faulted you for that, but we stand by you and give you benefit of the doubt, we all supported your action as a mere aspiration to remind the Lakers management to upgrade existing line up. We shielded you at every attack put in your direction at each blogs and board all over the internet and illustrate our faith and confidence in you and this Lakers team, and as a matter of defense for your action, we simply says, we understand your frustrations and expounded that you have the right to express dissatisfaction over team management and your intense desire to bring home a trophy in LA.

Do you know why we feel that way towards you, Kobe? It is because each and every game you show us your desire to win and the intensity of your game each and every given night. You give us the value of our hard earned money we spend in going to the game at staples. You show your love to us by making it appear that we are very special to you by simply displaying your passion to improve more of your talent playing basketball for the LA. We will continue to love you Kobe and the support the Lakers team through thick and thin, we will continue to come to the game and cheer for you, we will continue to defend you Kobe from reproach hurled by those erratic sportswriter and press people. We will continue to condemn each and every individual that will throw nasty and unwarranted statements that will put you and this Lakers team in bad light, because we are the Lakers fans and we believe we are part of the Lakers family.

As we keep on showing devotion to the Lakers organization, we also have the right to discern each and every awful action by this Lakers management with the aim of putting the team in discomfited position. We will persist on putting our dissent at every wrong judgment the Lakers will commit, we will continue to boo each and every player who doesn’t show energy and his aggressiveness in the game and we will continue to show our dissatisfaction when you're persistent in giving us highly paid players like Kwame Brown who just don’t want to show his professionalism and persistenly providing us lots of bad and awful games like that recent Lakers-Suns game. It is within our right to do so as part of the family. But we will continue to be fans of this Lakers team because we love the game and we love LA.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Who is fearful of a media advisory?

I don’t comprehend media’s motives in questioning or wanting that advisory to be out of the blue, because in my own honest opinion there is nothing in that media advisory which would cause chilling effect on media as a whole, nor does it constitute prior restraint in their advocacy. From where I stand as a media observer, the advisory was issued simply to remind that there’s still a rule of law to observe notwithstanding the emergency situations. The application of press freedom and the privilege of the public to be informed must not go in opposition to the law that had also provided those right and freedom they are now exercising. The right to press freedom must not be a license to transgress the basic function of government that is to implement peace and order and the preservation of its survival. After all, no freedom is absolute. It is a pity, media who turn into incessantly paranoid over a plain advisory assumes that as card carrying components of the press, they possess encompassing authorization to perform what they feel like to accomplish even contrary to the rule of law. I am truly flabbergasted at this reaction of the press associations.

Like for instance, the claim of press club official, that the Justice Department’s advisory obviously affirmed that in occurrence of crisis conditions, press people be supposed to abide by the rule of law from legitimate peacekeeping officials. In such a case that the National Press Club chieftain doesn’t understand what emergency situation signify, or if he isn’t sensitive of what legally recognized authority is, he doesn’t deserve to embody the club.
Certainly, media have to use press freedom and emphasize the right of the people to be informed, however it should be within the bounds of law and not keep on experimenting the threshold of the law, nevertheless, press freedom is not infinite, it has its own boundary and that is the rule of law. That is what the media advisory of the Justice Department is all about, no more, no less. Damn… can’t the media understand the difference between the exercise of freedom, or a license?