10. In the beginning, no other senator besides Bato dela Rosa was interested in the hearing.

9. The crux of the hearing was to establish the authenticity of the leaked documents, not necessarily what’s in them.

8. Senator Bato’s basis for believing in the authenticity of the documents were paper punch holes, or screenshots of the holes.

7. The authenticity of the documents is perpendicular to the credibility of the resource person Jonathan Morales.

6. Bato was star-struck at actress Maricel Soriano that he abruptly ended the Q&A with the diamond star.

5. Senator Bong Go’s sudden interest in the hearing was to support his close ally Senator Bato, not the truth.

4. Xerox got free publicity during the hearing.

3. Interesting exchange between a convicted senator and a convicted resource person.

2. With the testimony from St. Lukes, the greatest loser in all this is vlogger Maharlika.

1. 1. Does the Senate not have better things to do?

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In this age of endless copies, what defines the real?

Is it the document pre-screenshot, the paper you can feel?

Authenticity, elusive beast, like shadows on the wall,

Is it in the ink that dried, or pixels, large and small?

Is it found in punch hole marks, like ancient scars on flesh,

Or in the very first printout, before the ink was fresh?

A photocopy of a copy, in a spiral down the drain,

Each version more diluted, each image less the same.

The notary may stamp and seal, the paper gets embossed,

Yet with each scan and print and save, the truth seems ever lost.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave in search of what is true,

Authenticity’s a mystery, like déjà vu’s déjà vu.

So here’s the jest, dear reader, in this digital melee:

Authenticity’s a ghost we chase, a game we love to play.