THE PHILIPPINE STAR, LVPI AND THE TRUTH

courtesy of lookitsaboutme.com

The Philippine Star releases a special volleyball supplement for its November 21, 2015 issue. Clearly, the supplement is a cheap trick to promote Larong Volleyball Sa Pilipinas (LVPI) and its inept officials.

The Philippine Star has the audacity to insinuate that the Philippine Volleyball Federation has been remiss in its duty to send teams to the SEA Games in the last 10 years. The truth of the matter is, the officials that The Philippine Star is praising to high heavens are the ones who prevented the volleyball teams from participating in the SEA Games. It is a great disservice to the players and PVF to say that PVF did not assemble teams for the SEA Games in the last 10 years. The officials of Philippine Olympic Committee (POC), who are now LVPI officials, were the ones who prevented the volleyball teams from participating.

Likewise, The Philippine Star has the nerve to feature the statements of LVPI officials that highlight its national program for volleyball. People have seen how LVPI assembled a national team through phone calls. People know that LVPI has come up with a national team at the last minute at the airport. People know how LVPI did away with try-outs to form national teams. Never in the history of Philippine sports has a national team been formed at the airport at the last minute through phone calls and without try-outs. The Philippine Star conveniently forgets all these.

The Philippine Star has the responsibility to tell the truth. Sadly, it has abandoned such responsibility in writing about LVPI, its officials and volleyball, in general. Ironically, the tagline of The Philippine Star is "Truth Shall Prevail". How can it prevail when the paper itself conceals the truth ?