July 13, 2009
Dear Sir Harry and Madam Ambassador,
Thank you for your visionary insights and collaborative works with PPCRV, as well as our meeting of the minds -- on the enormous power of media, now the social new media through the internet TV.
Let me share you our vision & new mission.
Backgrounder :
1. ABE & I , are 'Reuter babies' since our teen age years, having learned Fr. Reuter's history to bring the good news from the pulpit, to the stage, to radio then to the era of black & white TV to the print media.
2. After our 'Radio Bandido' People power 1 peaceful revolution , risking one's young life to bring the power of communications of Truth back to the people, we sensed that the good Lord will use us, as missionaries in communications. Thus, 'Tatang' supported us with a new mission.
3. Abe worked with Jesuit Communications , and did lobby for content creation for years, which they finally did after 2 decades. He the worked on the successful 'Cath-text-ism', push bible verses on mobile phones.
Then we met again on July,2007 wherein I with 29-ad.com , musicionaries for Gawad kalinga, was producing the Healing praise concert of Fr. Suarez at the ULTRA.
4. He intro the Internet TV and I thought, since my mother-in-law in Cebu was gravely ill, and maybe she will be healed through the healer and technology? So, I agreed to worked on its experimental test webcast. We both moved 'heaven on earth', with all the difficulties from telco non-to low upload bandwidth, to ULTRA 'broadcast fees', to non-techie unbelievers et al. to its ultimate challenge day.
" Five minutes before the concert we got the upload stream, then as the music started, healing musical event was 'Live' all over the net world, even on a stormy Saturday night, the bandwidth did not break. After three hours of praise and healing , on the last note , the power was cut," as Abe narrated.
" Lo and behold, after the event, on our chat board, many were overjoyed in thanksgiving for many were healed, and that includes ---my mother-in law ( like the story of Apostle Peter), " as I narrated this to our CFC-GK community.
5. So, Abe & I shared the new media to the CFC ,Gk Communities and to other corporate / org. clients.
Bong a & I shared this to the De la Salle community. They now learned , that technology is here and can be an instrument to showcase advocacy, global collaboration, education for all and their own community TV platform.
6. Now, on Tatang's 94 birthday instruction is for us to go Forward with the mission using the social new media, since Media . . .at the crossroads! His Philstar at 3a.m. article :
Pope Benedict XVI message for the World Day of Communications choosing the theme " The Media: at the crossroads between self-Promotion and Service. searching the Truth in order to Share it with Others."
He feels that modern media has become such a powerful force that it is shaping and fashioning the minds & hearts of all of us. It offers new possibilities for good, but at the same time opens up appalling possibilities for evil. Today, communication seems not to present reality, but to determine it . . . at times, media are used for the disseminating information, but to create events.
Social communications as the key challenge of the third millennium;
to respect human dignity ,
to have a special responsibility to promote respect for the family in all its beauty ,
must avoid to be the spokesmen for economic materialism, which is the scourge of our time.
seeking and presenting the Truth about humanity constitutes the highest vocation of social communication.
The new media- telecommunications and internet in particular -- are changing the very face of communication. The many refined and engaging techniques that the media have at their disposal is an exciting task, entrusted in the first place to managers and operators in the sector. Yet it concerns us all, because we are all consumers and operators of social communications in the era of globalization.
We must raise up courageous communicators who will commit themselves to the quest for truth and for developing communion between persons and among nations.
AS MISSION PARTNERS
So, this our humble story and our vision / mission in our open partnership with PPCRV and GNN, for you both share the 'at 3 a.m.' media . . article of Fr. Reuter in your good works.
We know its the Good Lord who drew the crooked lines into our engagement:
1. For how did Bong A. decided to resign from the corporate world and go back to graduate studies at APC, then meeting up Prof. Toti , then toti to be the pointman PPCRV I.T. volunteer , linking up with visionary-broadcaster Harry and to the convergence of the IT group, then to the approval of the 2010 poll automation and now to this week's presidential forum.
2. Sir Toti have presented the timeline , tasks ahead and the TIME limitations for the next phase,
educating the responsible voters. A massive multi media and organizational partnerships task for all.
This project is bigger than all of us , for at stake is our nation's honor and spirit that our global Filipinos will face and defend in their international works and 'missions'.
(After EDSA1, we were commissioned by Fr. Reuter to share to the FILAM youth the '400 years in 40 minutes' history of the Philippines as well as the spirituality of the Filipinos. Just like then Pres. Cory speech in the U.S. congress, we both stood proud in tears as the global community clapped in standing ovation, in praise for that one Shining moment of the Peaceful revolution by the Spirit-full Filipinos in 1986.)
Dear team, 'Do not be afraid for
I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS' !
We, the Radio bandido 86 are back with the good advocates to move and fulfill the mission again, now through the new social media , internet and telecommunications.
move forward ,
Emer Magno Guingon
