THE recent firing of muckraking columnist Ramon Tulfo by the daily Philippine Star has triggered a lot of questions about the First Lady's (Mrs. Liza Araneta-Marcos') alleged involvement in the purely internal Philippine Star affair. These questions have not been answered to the public's full satisfaction.

But why isn't the Star, rather than LAM or the Tulfo family, the one explaining to the public why it had to drop a hard-hitting and widely read columnist without any satisfactory explanation to his readers? This is a question for the entire Philippine press, not just for one particular newspaper.