Media pay last respects to beloved Gani
True-blooded journalist, Gani is a great loss to the industry. There was so much outpouring of love for the 'true journalist and gentleman'. And literally, too. Flowers and wreaths overflowed from the funeral room that they had to be lined up even outside the building beside the parking lot and through the driveway. "Wala nang pagsidlan sa loob eh (They couldn't be accommodated inside anymore)," Cita Guyagoy, a long-time secretary of the former publisher at the Philippine Daily Inquirer, said. Prayers came intermittently from morning to evening from all sorts of people: media practitioners, students, teachers, colleagues, friends, classmates, politicians, government workers and members of the diplomatic corps. No less President Benigno S. Aquino III visited the wake on Sunday, March 4. He was seen in the company of the Prietos, owner of PDI, on the same evening. "The president was here. I appreciated the gesture," said Mildred Yamb...