I’ve been watching the news on TV, the articles on newspaper and dozens of blogs writing about the Delfin dela Paz vs. Department of Agrarian Reforms Secretary Nasser Pangandaman, and his son Nasser, Jr. , mayor of Masui, Lanao Del Sur.

I am reserving judgment until this has been settled in the proper forum. One does not just go into conclusions without getting the side of both parties. Otherwise, I will be just one of the mobs on the Intarwebs.

Most of the stories are condemning the Major and the DAR Secretary and bloggers and media flock to the rescue of their fellow blogger, Bambee dela Paz. The elder dela Paz and his 14-year old boy were beaten up — a few bruises and drops of blood — and people are clamoring for justice.

Here’s a clear proof why blogging is for the elite and the middle class:

- Every day, people get beaten up, robbed, raped and murdered. Do they get the same media attention as the de la Paz?

- Thousands of farmers lost their land from the elite, the greedy land owners and the powerful politicians (even the old ones like the Aquinos and their Hacienda Luisita) and where is the clamor from the middle class and the elite?

- Students on poor urban area don’t have a classroom to stay and most are forced to leave school because greedy politicians shave off and pocket millions from their pork barrel instead of benefiting thousands of students. Where is the clamor from the middle class and the elite?

- Every day, children die of hunger and malnourishment because the government is too busy doing other things other than taking care of the indigent. Where is the clamor?

But then, the middle class starts to act up and rally in support of an altercation in (and here’s the irony) an exclusive Golf Club.

The media is ever present in golf clubs and watching elite-swarmed areas for newsworthy story. This is NOT newsworthy — it happens every day. Again. EVERYDAY, EVERYWHERE. The media focused on this one because the people involved are the elite, are politicians and the story will have a better spin. There are hundreds of atrocities far worse than getting bruised because someone didn’t get their fair share of the greens.

And why do the middle class are in uproar and blogging to sky high? Well, the victims are one of them. It could be them getting beaten up in a posh mall, or a gulf course one day.

Yet, they are oblivious and blind of more hideous crimes that happen in their surroundings. Wake up people and don’t be naive — this fist fight is nothing. Why waste time and effort that someone’s ego and face got bruised when there are worse crimes happening all around us? There’s the Mindanao Crisis, the poor farmers wanting extension of the Land Reform Act, the syndicates int he streets using street children to beg for money and the thousands of people dying senseless of crimes against society. I don’t see you people blogging crazy about those.