At the height of the 1st Malu Fernandez Brouhaha, this appeared in one of the Manila Standard articles. I am quoting the article in full with highlights to some points.
The editors and management of this newspaper have been besieged and importuned to join the heated discussions by all sorts of parties and characters, for reasons ranging from noble to ignoble, who think that lifestyle columnist Malu Fernandez is the Philippine version of France’s Marie Antoinette.
Despite our private, aching desires as journalists to explain the Malu Fernandez affair, the Manila Standard Today adheres to a certain set of protocols that prevent us from publicly discussing personnel issues.
Having said that, perceptive readers would have noted that two Manila Standard Today columnists have already devoted three columns on Ms. Fernandez, publicly rebuking their fellow Manila Standard Today columnist for an offending article that had seen print in another publication.
In any case, a contrite Ms. Fernandez has already issued a public apology for what she had written both in the Manila Standard Today and in the first publication. <-- (she has publicly retracted the apology, just recently.. -ed)
The civilized response for the offended parties would have been acceptance of the proffered penance, unless the expressed remorse is taken as sarcasm by some parties determined to be insulted.
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