My media exposure

As I was  simulating a background search on my complete name (for future reference), I was surprised to see a number of newspaper articles that had my name on it. I was shocked. But I am happy that the articles that I am in is my line of work. I hope it can help me boost my career as a scientist. Anyway, I've taken the liberty of posting them here for posterity's sake. 

1. http://www.philstar.com/nation/2014/07/26/1350281/phivolcs-discovers-landslide-zones-la-union-village

2. http://www.interaksyon.com/article/91909/phivolcs-discovers-dangerous-earthquake-zones-in-la-union

3. http://www.manilatimes.net/philvolcs-discovers-dangerous-landslide-zones-in-la-union/114259/

4. http://www.mb.com.ph/landslide-zone-discovered-in-la-union/

5. http://ovpaa.up.edu.ph/ipa-awardees-for-july-2013/

6. http://www.geolsocphil.org/geocon_abstracts/geocon2013_titles1.html

7. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/EGU2010-298.pdf

8. http://www.thebulletintoday.com/2014/07/phivolcs-confirms-dangerous-la-union-landslide-zone/

9. http://www.nigs.upd.edu.ph/research/engineering-geology

10. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010EGUGA..12..298M

It's funny to note that when a media person picks up your story, it spreads like wildfire to other media people. And the story and facts get mangled as it jumps from one reporter to another. It is bothering that they do not verify the news from the technical person. Often times, scientists are misquoted by the media reporters because of the need to IMMEDIATELY publish their scoop and fail to verify properly the information.

Just look at the similarity of the different news articles. They were written by different journalists but it contains almost THE SAME (wrong) information. Nagtapyas lang sila ng mga ibang salita at pinalitan ng ibang salita. Balita na iyon para sa kanila. Sana naman hindi ganun ka-pabaya ang mga journalist sa kanilang balita. I hope they will strive to seek the truth and get their facts straight in their news.