FOR THE RECORD

"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, 

to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."--Henry David Thoreau

The blogger could have blundered into a writers' organization whose leaders' moral-intellectual orientation/values did not measure, it appears to us now, to those of the truly practitioners of the art. It was at least a five-year affair that the blogger and the writer from Caba did their best to make the Ilokano-English journal the most outstanding of its kind in the North. 

It was an encounter that left us with a bad taste in the mouth with respect to honesty and integrity.

     We are tracing the roots of conflict. This is our version--of course they have their own-- as journalist-correspondent of the country's most prestigious newspaper, the Philippine Daily Inquirer: