The following are the news found on page one:
Aquino-Binay in halfway count. Noynoy heads for landslide; Roxas 2nd in VP race.
Comelec failure of change management rued
‘Most peaceful’ poll since 2007 but 18 dead
Front-runner sweats it out for four hours
Wilting in heat: Very slow voting in automated poll
Estrada blooper: He skipped Binay’s name for VP
There are other news but I cannot find the copy from the online version. Of course, we expect that the front page today will have Sen. Aquino's name all over it. With votes now being counted rapidly, thanks to generally successful automation, it is obvious that the Presidency is going for the LP candidate. It might be too early to call that Aquino won but it is safe to say that he is well on his way.
Meanwhile, what is striking today is that there are no more bad motives attributed to the government not to the COMELEC in the front page news. There are no more calls for manual count covered in the news. There is no more NoEl nor "failure of elections" in the headlines. There are no calls for people power. In fact, massive disenfranchisement is not even considered. The problems encountered in the elections are merely referring to COMELEC's failure to think about the physical process of lining up the precincts, rather than on automation, but definitely not anymore on any ulterior motive to rig the elections. Even the violence that happen in many places are not blamed to the administration. It seems now all these are normal, perhaps as long as we have the obvious winner.
Unfortunately, this is the sign that we are again headed for much of the same. When our mass media begins to ignore the problems right before our eyes, our politicians will be ignoring them too, and the people will continue be mesmerized by what they saw in the mass media - not by what is actually happening to them.
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