Jose A. Carillo
Jose A. Carillo

There’s no doubt that the Bohol killer earthquake last October 15 was a horrendous cataclysm, but I think some of the media reportage about it has been terribly amateurish and, at worst, misleading. I’ll analyze from a language standpoint just two descriptions of that earthquake by two major Metro Manila dailies.

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