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Stuck in Between: 2018 Division Seminar-Workshop in Campus Paper Production July 26-28, 2018

The author is stuck between a career in journalism and her family's involvement in politics. Her father sees the media as holding a grudge against politicians. As a student writer and daughter of politicians, she wants to use her writing to change perceptions and bring the two fields closer together rather than opposing each other. Through her work as a journalist, she hopes to one day get a different answer from her father when she asks what politicians think of the media.

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Stuck in Between: 2018 Division Seminar-Workshop in Campus Paper Production July 26-28, 2018

The author is stuck between a career in journalism and her family's involvement in politics. Her father sees the media as holding a grudge against politicians. As a student writer and daughter of politicians, she wants to use her writing to change perceptions and bring the two fields closer together rather than opposing each other. Through her work as a journalist, she hopes to one day get a different answer from her father when she asks what politicians think of the media.

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2018 Division Seminar-Workshop in Campus Paper Production

July 26-28, 2018


SAMPLE SOFT COLUMN

STUCK IN BETWEEN
“The problem with the media, anak, is that they seem to be holding a really big grudge to us, government officials. By
now, we are used to it. But that doesn’t mean we don’t want it to end.”

This was my father’s response when I asked what politicians like him, really think about the mass media in our country
today. And this simple answer stuck me between two sides. I have been a student-writer for four years, and I have seen how the
gap between journalism and politics continuously grow through time. Like modern Yin and Yang, these two influential fields have
not yet crossed the peace line. Worse, it looks like they are not even close to doing so.

But in my case, I am the ‘gray part’ in the clash of blacks and whites. I have the blood of a politician and the ability of a
writer at the same time.

I live to write, but I was also born in the brood of leaders.

Both my parents are well-known politicians in our town, even before I was born. My mom is locally famous as the “Master
of Plans” while my dad is noted as the town’s “Man of Action.” Together, they make a perfect tandem and a daughter journalist is
just the perfect element to put a twist in their story.

Countless are the times I’ve been asked by people, “Why be involved in a profession that opposes your family line?”
where I retort back with another question, “Why not be involved in a profession that has the capacity to change what people think
about my family line?” Every stroke my pen can change and influence minds, in my own little ways.

History tells us that the power of the press is an effective tool towards bringing about reform and it is the same power that
will surely free me from being stuck inside the chaotic circle of journalism and politics and make these two opposing forces
complement each other, instead of continuing to do the opposite.

In three to five years, when I become a full-pledged journalist and ask my father that same question I hope he answers it
differently. Because that’s how I know I did my job as a politician’s daughter—and as a writer.

By Shania Vie T. Bautista


The Excelsior,Regional Science High School
Third Place, Editorial Page
NSPC 2013

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