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THE NEWSROOM TODAY

2006-10-09T06:18:00.000-07:00

In the innovation of technology. The traditional process and operation in a newsroom now slowly changing into more high tech style. The traditional relationship of reporters to their editors now gone.The trend to day i sgoing online.

Online system in a newsroom:

In submitting news stories, today, news correspondents and reporters just go online. The old face to face stayle of submitting story is gone

(The newsroom of PDI northern luzon office)

In monitoring and accessing news information, the old ways of searching is also affected by internet zone.The journalist just go online and that's it, news lead and some news worthy information will immediately be access.

In news editing, even editors just go online to edit news reports toady. If there is a problem in the submitted stories, just a click of a mouse, correction is immediately done.

This is the trend in the newsrooms today. Somehow more effecient and less expensive.
Its very afforadable and hassle free, even the reporters or correspondents are from far places, by just going online, everything is possible.

monitor news
(list of news released within northern luzon)

JESSICA ZAFRA AT UPBAGUIO

2006-10-09T05:51:00.000-07:00

mS. jESSICA zAFRA...Known on her series of twisted books and now released her new book entitled "The 500 people you meet in hell".

Ms. Zafra recieved her token of appreciation from the UP CAC faculty.

I'll never forget her words like this:
"When your parents say go to law school or medical school , do it!
For its hard to publish out of or by just writing."

With conviction she says that, it quite encourage me to do what my parents told me, for its true, there is no money in journalism. Right?

something anusual about her:wanna know?

*can't do anything at a time
*can't right in silence
*she want noise while writing
*deadline is an inspiration enough for her
*writing is her habit and it goes naturally she says

Ms. Jessica Zafra's end ups her talk fine and full of lessons eventhough she's quite shocking in uttering ... in answering questions. She is campaigning to all ...encouranging students to read atleast read one book a week, for if you want to be a writer, for her, reading is the key to it.

BULGAR STYLE

2006-09-23T07:29:00.000-07:00

Sa aking panonood ng ABS-CBN, nasaksihan ko ang sinasabi ng aking mga guro pagdating sa etikal isyus.Marahil masayng magsilbi sa mamayan at maging sanggunian nila. Ngunit tama ba ang sitwasyong ilalahad ko sa inyo ngayon?

TV Patrol SABADO, eto ang weekend news ng ABS-CBN. Sa isang report nila ako ay napahanga. Bakit? Dahil EKSLUSIBO! nilang nakuhanan ang isang bata sa Bulacan na umakyat sa poste ng kuryente.

Sa isang reporter at news organization, masaya nga namang ikaw lang ang nakakuha sa balita.

Umpisa palang ng balita,, (news room anchor address)"Pasintabi po sa mga nanonood"... (field reporter says while in the site), "itinawag sa ABS-CBN"....kaninang ang umaga ang isang batang di-umanoy umakyat sa poste ng kuryente...

Ang resulta ng balita...

Namatay ang bata matapos barilin ng lasing na tanod ang bata ng tatlong beses.

Masaya na sanang naiulat niya ang naturang balita. Pero nanghina ako dahil sa tnong na:
Hindi manlang ba naitawag ng ABS-CBN sa autordad ang pangyayari?
Di sana manlang may ambulansya at firetrack or any concerns sa ganitong sitwasyon. Tama ba?

Hindi sa hinuhusgahan ko ang pamamaraan ng istasyon. Sana manlang bago ito malathala bilang balita, gumawa manlang sana ang ABS-CBN news correspondents ng hakbang.

May sira sa ulo o may diperensya sa isip ang bata. Pero hindi siya ibon na basta na lamang babarilin. Hindi lang ito, tandaan na tao siya at hindi lang isang elemento para sa isang balita.

Ano ba namang pag-iisip ang meron sa mga tao sa media ngayon? Tama ba ang unahin ang propisyon kaysa ang kapakanan ng isang bata? Isipin natin, maging maingat tayo. Kung asa atin ang impormasyon at kabalibalita nga, kung may magagawa tayo bago ito maging balita nalang ay, GAWIN NATIN!.

ONLINE NEWS HEADLINES

2006-09-21T01:44:00.000-07:00

(photo from Manilatimes Website)

A tank stands guard in front of the Royal Plaza in Bangkok the morning after the military takeover Tuesday. AFP Photos

(photo from Manila Bulletein)
COUP IN THAILAND (Reuters)A tank (center) stands outside Government House in Bangkok Tuesday, Sept. 19. The Thai army took control of Bangkok on Tuesday and announced it would set up a commission to reform the Constitution despite Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (left) declaring a state of emergency from New York. Thai Army General and Commander-in-Chief Sonthi Boonyaratkalin (right) speaks on TV to announce the coup.

*(photo from Philstar website)

A 38-year-old bank manager was shot dead around 9 o'clock Tuesday night in what appears to be another case robbery while he was about to change a flat tire along Ouano Ave. of the Mandaue Reclamation Area, 300 meters from the boundary of Cebu City.

(photo from philstar website)

Members of the Philippine Marines prepare their cannons for an annual general inspection at the Marine headquarters at Fort Bonifacio, Taguig yesterday.- Photo By MANNY MARCELO

( photo from inq7.net)

RP nixes possibility of 'copycat coup'
Arroyo in 'firm control' -- PalaceBy Lira Dalangin-FernandezINQ7.netLast updated 05:35am (Mla time) 09/21/2006
(3RD UPDATE) PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is in “firm control” of the government and the armed forces, Malacañang said Wednesday, a day after Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted in a military coup...

BLOGGING :A FORM OF JOURNALISM

2006-08-30T02:37:00.000-07:00

Blogging “Definitely has its bright future”, an editor of Philippine Daily Inquire Northern Luzon Bureau said in a class forum at University of the Philippines Baguio today.

Professor Rolando Fernandez, a member of the Mass Communication academe of UP Baguio at the same time editor of PDI base here in Baguio, said that blogging is a form of journalism. That bloggers can be called journalist “if do something what journalist does” he said.

“Journalist in name, nothing special in journalist, we just romanticized the name journalist, its just a name”, Fernandez said.

Internet has its booming effect in communication today. Just like television, internet is now on its height affecting mass communication.

Media organizations today, whether print or broadcast have their entire online version in the internet. Philippine Daily Inquirer as the number one national news paper now can be access in internet in their INQ7.Net website.

Behind this existence of blogging, many bloggers also exist. But Fernandez said he don’t see it as a “threat” to the traditional media. “What you see in print and into online they complement” he added.

“Honest and Fair…never plagiarize” he said. ‘Guard against garbage information to check” added Fernandez. This is what it needs in blogging.

In his optimistic ideas, Fernandez view the new generation of journalist that they will be the one to pursue blogging as a new media. That in blogging, journalism students today can be an instant publisher, by not marrying a rich to put up a news paper publication.
But Fernandez doesn’t kill the possibilities, which in the future blogging get its height that can kill news paper industry. That’s why “I don’t want to see the future” he said.

Mr. Fernandez doesn’t forget to put emphasis on the ethics and principles of a journalism which is to be “accurate”. According to him there is a regulation that bound blogging and its implemented now in US. He cited the issue of PCIJ regarding libel because of a certain article posted in the internet.

Mr. Amerr Amor a former student of Mr. Fernandez, who is now an instructor of UP, who holds the class, also joined the discussion reminiscing his college days about traditional journalism

The forum ended successfully leaving new thoughts and optimistic views shared by Fernandez. The energetic and intelligent editor in his age made the student amazed in his shared thoughts regarding the existence of blogging as an online journalism. The classroom was filled with funny jokes carrying practical answers of what blogging is today and in the future of media. #

TEXTING : Is it a form of mass media?

2006-08-28T01:32:00.000-07:00

From Inquirer (27 Aug.2006)
Sabi ni Justice Sec. Gonzalez, ang UP daw nagproproduce ng mga destabilizer at mga naked na estudyante. Hindi daw siya magtataka pag- nakita niyang libro na lang bitbit natin. at saka wala tayong utang na loob, bingiyan tayo ng “world class education” tapos kinakalaban natin ang government. Graduate siya ng UST kaya daw” well behaved” siya…
This was a text message I received yesterday, Sunday August 27,2006. Almost my co-UPian’s received same message and got different reactions on the article.
I got the message about 4pm yesterday , since I am going to market I didn’t think twice and buy an INQUIRER with me. This makes me verify the chain message.
In the article published on Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sunday. In the article of Armand N. Nocum entitled: Gonzalez: UP breeds destabilizes, naked runners .The lead of the story really proved the message I received saying :
THIS TIME JUSTICE SECRETARY Raul Gonzales has picked on the University of the Philippines school system, saying it mainly produces militant protesters and fraternity men and women who run around the campus naked.
When the reporter of PDI asked GONZALEZ where he graduated. He replied, “University of Sto. Tomas…that’s why I am well behaved.” With no intention to degrade UP as an institution and its students Gonzales sated in the interview . In the article, But he said he was “not degrading UP per se” but only questioning the kind of students that came from it.”
Whatever Mr. Gonzalez wants to point out, I respect him for that is his opinion and he doesn’t make a point to think about what he’s saying. Well he is a “ graduate of University Sto-Tomas” right?
In this matter, texting as a form of communication helps to access message easily. But can we call texting using cellular phones as a way and form of mass media? Cellular phones are communication channel, yes, but is it a mass medium or new form of new media like internet? Are news coming from cellular phones through text messaging reliable?
I never knew about the Gonzalez issue if I don’t received a text. That issue will the same time just buried in the PDI columns if that text didn’t make it sensationalize through chain messaging . Through that text message I cross-checked and verify it in PDI. Thus this means texting can be a room for news? Think.

SONA 2006 held at Batasang Pambansa

2006-07-25T18:23:00.000-07:00

State of the Nation Address of Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, 24 July 2006, Plenary Hall, Batasang Pambansa
Thank you.
Thank you, Speaker de Venecia. Congratulations, Senate President Manny Villar; Vice-President Noli de Castro; President Ramos; Chief Justice Panganiban; Members of the diplomatic corps; Senators; Congressmen and Congresswomen; Other officials, ladies and gentlemen.
Sa araw na ito, nakatuon ang isip natin sa ating mga kababayan sa Lebanon. Nasa kuko sila ngayon ng malagim na paglala ng digmaan. Kahapon lamang, sinalubong natin ang unang dalawang-daang Pilipinong lumikas doon. Limang-daan pa ang mauuwi natin sa susunod na apat na araw.
Sa ating mga OFW, tunay kayong mga bagong bayani. Sa inyong paglilingkod sa pamilya, sa ating bayan at sa Diyos, maraming salamat.
Sa ating mga kababayan, a journey of a thousand miles does not begin with a single step. It starts with the first step, with gathering the means to complete it successfully. Those means are now at hand.
To my friends in Congress who, in the face of grave political consequences, championed and passed some of the most severe and critical fiscal reforms to save our economy, maraming salamat. You are the true friends of the Filipino people. For the real challenge has never been to blame but to fix what is wrong in our country and our economy.
Dahil sa inyo, sa wakas may pondo na tayo, hindi lamang para ibayad sa interes, kundi para sa edukasyon, mas mabuting tulay at kalsada, pagbigay kalinga sa kalusugan at higit na trabaho sa ating bansa. Now, we have the money to pay down our debt and to build up our country.
To the civil servants who rose to the challenge of turning a weakening economy to a strong republic, through more vigorous tax collection and more vigilant action against corruption, maraming salamat. We have achieved record revenue collections. We are lining up corrupt officials to face the consequences of their misdeeds. And finally earned the respect of the international community as a serious and viable state for our fiscal discipline and billions of pesos in annual interest savings that are now going into necessary public investments.
To our men and women in the armed services, the huge and deep core of your loyalty has earned the nation's accolade. The few mutineers have been condemned by the people. They and their partisan cohorts and funders are being brought to justice. Sa nakararaming kawal at pulis na nagtaguyod ng watawat at Saligang Batas, maraming salamat.
And at a time when we must each, as individuals and as communities, take greater responsibility, our local government officials man the frontline of change: change for greater accountability, for better service and more responsiveness to their constituents. Sa inyong lahat, mga local government officials, maraming salamat.
Higit sa lahat, salamat sa sambayanang Pilipino, para sa inyong mga sakripisyo, sa inyong tiyaga, for believing, in the face of the greatest hardships, in our ability to surmount the obstacles to the future you deserve; you who have resisted persistent if not pathetic calls for despair instead of faith, for anarchy instead of harmony, salamat, salamat, taus- pusong pasasalamat.
So I stand before you today to deliver a state of the nation that is focused on what the people want; the people want to know the plan to put us on the path to prosperity.
I am not here to talk about politics; I am here to talk about what the people want; details on the state of the nation and what their government is doing to make progress every single day.
Sama-sama nating isusulong ang bansa patungo sa kinabukasang nagniningning.
Gaya ng nakikita sa graph na ito, dahil sa ating reporma sa ekonomiya, we now have the funds to address social inequity and economic disparity. Too many ... masyadong marami, ang mamamayang nagugutom. Hindi ako hihinto hanggang magtagumpay ang ating laban sa kahirapan.
We now have the funds to stamp out terrorism and lawless violence.
May pondo na tayo para labanan ang katiwalian.
Our reforms have earned us P1 billion from the U.S. Millennium Challenge Account for more investigators, prosecutors, and new technology to fight corruption. We are matching this with another billion from our fiscal savings.
We now have the funds for constitutional and electoral changes. Sa kasalukuyang sistema, napakabagal ng proseso, at bukas sa labis na pagtutunggali, at sikil ang lalawigan at mamamayan sa paghahari ng Imperial Manila. Panahon nang ibalik ang kapangyarihan sa taumbayan at lalawigan. For surely, there must be a better way to do politics, so that those who lose elections do not make the country pay for their frustrated ambitions. There must be a better way so that those who win the nation's mandate to govern can work without delay and whimsical obstruction. There must be a better way.
Meanwhile, now we can fund the Medium Term Public Investment Program.
Sumusulong na ang ating plano na may tatlong yugto. Una, ang makaahon sa mga dekada ng utang at kapos ng pondo. Nagawa na natin ito. Ikalawang yugto, ang pagbabalik sa taumbayan ang mas malaking kita ng pamahalaan: upang makapagpundar ng kalinga sa kalusugan, edukasyon at trabaho na kailangang-kailangan ng mamamayan. Ginagawa na rin natin ito. And finally, Phase Three: to invest in the natural advantages and natural resources of each section of our nation so that when harnessed together, the major economic regions of the nation are larger than the sum of its parts.
We will enhance the competitive advantage of the natural "super regions" of the Philippines: the North Luzon Agribusiness Quadrangle, the Metro Luzon Urban Beltway, Central Philippines, Mindanao and the Cyber Corridor.
In North Luzon, we will prioritize agribusiness investments. The agricultural and fisheries potential of the Cordilleras, Ilocandia, and Cagayan Valley can feed Luzon affordably. And nearness to North Asia holds the rich promise of agricultural exports and tourism.
My father built the Halsema Highway from Baguio to Bontoc, and the Bagabag airport in Nueva Vizcaya to access the Ifugao rice terraces, which by the way, the UNESCO has recently praised for the way we have carried out our heritage preservation policy. We have rehabilitated the Baguio to Mount Data leg of the highway and the rest of Halsema will now follow. We will upgrade the Bagabag airport and build a new one in Lallo, Cagayan, which will connect to Cordillera by upgrading the Tabuk-Tuguegarao Road.
Sa Tabuk, Kalinga, noong Abril, tumanggap ng titulo sa lupa ang ilang matatanda, pagkatapos nilang naghintay ng dalawampung taon mula noong napirmahan ang Mount Data Accord ng gobyerno at ng Cordillera People's Liberation Army. May isang matanda, suot ang lumang uniporme ng CPLA. Pumila, hila-hila ang isang binatilyo. Sabi niya, "This is not for me but for him." Agad inabot ang titulo sa apo. Narito ngayon si Ginoong Ama Balunggay at ang kaniyang apo si Jacob.
And our post-harvest support shall continue, like the cold chain that we set up in 2004 for La Trinidad, Benguet under Mayor Nestor Fongwan. It consisted of a refrigerated storage facility and refrigerated trucks to deliver vegetables to Metro Manila. Nais kong tumaas ang kita ng mga magsasaka, at ang ina ng bawat tahanan ay makabili ng mura at sariwang gulay para sa kaniyang mga anak.
So that the people will know how well their money is spent, Benguet and its towns of Bakun, Bokod and Itogon have rolled out the new electronic government accounting system in their jurisdictions.
If Ifugao was able to cut its poverty in half in the first three years of our administration, from 56 to 28%, congratulations. We hope that through these programs, the other provinces can replicate the success of Ifugao. Hangad nating dumami ang mga taga-Cordillera sa mga propesyon na tinitingalaan ng bayan, gaya ng mga abogadong gaya nina Maurice Domogan at Romeo Brawner. Ibig din nating makapaghanda ang Cordillera sa awtonomiya pagdating ng pederalismo, ayon nawa sa pagbabago ng Saligang Batas.
Sa Dagupan, inilunsad na ng mga kolehiyo gaya ng Northwestern Lyceum University and ladderized system of education. Sa ganitong sistema, magagamit sa unibersidad and mga kursong kinuha sa vocational school at ang karanasan sa trabaho.
We will expand President Ramos' flagship San Roque Multipurpose Dam with the massive Agno River Project. Another major project is the Banaoang Irrigation. We allocate P200 million a month for small irrigation projects like those in the flood control plan of the Region II Development Council headed by Bishop Ramon Villena. Plus another P200 million a month for farm to market roads.
Also in the works is an international airport in Poro, La Union and the improvement of the two airports in Batanes as recommended by Governor Vic Gato. Ilocos Sur will have a seaport in Salomague while the Cagayan Zone Authority will better the one in Port Irene.
To save dollars, windmills in Batanes and Ilocos Norte turn megawinds into megawatts. When Army Commander Romy Tolentino was North Luzon commander, he became a soldier-farmer, planting jatropha as yet another alternative fuel.
The Metro Luzon Urban Beltway spans most of Central Luzon, Metro Manila, Calabarzon, Mindoro and Marinduque. It must be a globally competitive urban, industrial and services center, because it produces more than half of the country's GDP.
To be world-class we invest in five comprehensive strategies for global competitiveness:
Make food plentiful and affordable to keep our labor cost globally competitive.
Reduce the cost of electricity to make our factories regionally competitive. 3. Modernize infrastructure at least cost to efficiently transport goods and people.
Mobilize, upgrade and disseminate knowledge and technologies for productivity.
Reduce red tape in all agencies to cut business costs.
The most prohibitive red tape is in our outmoded Constitution. We need Constitutional change to bring our rules of investment into the new millennium
The new public bidding process has been shortened to 45 days for infrastructure, and 26 days for supplies, as of today. Even before this, Metro Manila firms paying bribes for public contracts declined from 57% in 2003 to 46 today. Congratulations, Metro Manila
Machine readable electronic passports will enhance the credibility of Philippine travel documents, improve the mobility and increase the prospects of Philippine business and labor.
Legitimate mobility is hampered by human trafficking. Through the support of the USAID, we have convicted human traffickers with the Tongco spouses who were sentenced in a Quezon City court last December. These accomplishments removed us from the from the priority anti-trafficking watchlist.
To lower power costs we introduced the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market last month. Let's give it a chance to work. And we would like big power consumers like electronics, our number one exports, to avail of lower power rates from the National Power Corporation. On coco-biodiesel, we now have enough capacity for the proposed 1% blend just waiting to be passed into law.
The Subic-Clark corridor is on its way to a competitive international logistics center. This will be my legacy to my cabalens, jointly with Lito and Mark Lapid, Rey Aquino, Ana Bondoc, Blue Boy Nepomuceno, my son Mikey and Tarzan Lazatin. We jumpstarted it with giant investments in the Subic Seaport, the Clark Airport, and the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway.
And to bring the beltway to the west we will connect the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Road to Dingalan Port through Nueva Ecija, and the Marikina- Infanta Road to the port of Real.
Upang ibsan ang pagod ng mga empleyadong namamasahe sa trapiko sa Kalakhang Maynila, mangangapital tayo sa mga expressway at tren.
We will have a continuous highway from Clark to Metro Manila to Batangas Port. Tapo?Vs na iyong expressway mula Clark hanggang Maynila. Sa ngayon wala nang isang oras ang biyahe mula Clark hanggang Monumento. Ngayon iiwasan natin ang trapiko mula Monumento, dahil idudugtong natin ang North Expressway sa C-5. Tutulong si Sonny Belmonte sa right-of-way. Ang C-5 naman ay konektado na sa South Luzon Expressway. Ang South Luzon Expressway ay pinapalapad naman hanggang Calamba. Sa Agosto, pahahabain ito hanggang Batangas. We will also build the Coastal Road to Bacoor, which has become urban under Jesse Castillo.
Pagdurugtungin natin ang MRT at LRT mula Monumento hanggang North EDSA upang mabuo ang biyahe paikot sa Kamaynilaan, at maibsan ang trapik. We will construct the Northrail to Clark and the Southrail to Lucena and on to Bicol, and upgrade the link between them. We will also extend the LRT to Bacoor. Sa pagbilis ng biyahe patungo at palabaas ng Metro Manila, makakatira ang manggagawa sa mas mura at maaliwalas na lalawigan.
Maayos na ang kapaligiran sa riles ng tren sa South Superhighway. Masaya ang mga pamilyang hinatid namin ni Vice President Noli de Castro sa kanilang bago at permanenteng relokasyon. Teddy Boy Locsin said it hadn't been done before, and couldn't be done at all. Well, Teddy?
Ngayon gagawin ito sa Maynila, si Lito Atienza ang bahala.
We thank China for agreeing to fund these housing needs. Huwaran ng ating programang pabahay para sa mahihirap ang mga proyekto ng Iglesia ni Kristo at Gawad Kalinga.
Ngunit kapos sa tubig ang mga taga-West Zone ng Kamaynilaan. Kaya bibigyan natin ng prayoridad hindi lamang ang edukasyon, koryente, enerhiya at kalusugan, kundi tubig din. We are setting up a 300 million liters per day pumping station for Muntinlupa, Las Pinas and Paranaque.
We will build a roll-on-roll-roll-off port system to link Lucena, Quezon to Boac, Marinduque, like the Batangas-Mindoro RORO.
Sa ganitong mga proyekto, palalakasin natin ang ekonomiya ng mga barangay at lalawigan. And we will end the long oppression of barangays by rebel terrorists who kill without qualms, even their own. Sa mga lalawigang sakop ng 7th Division, nakikibaka sa kalaban si Jovito Palparan. Hindi siya aatras hanggang makawala sa gabi ng kilabot ang mga pamayanan at maka-ahon sa bukang-liwayway ng hustisya at kalayaan.
In the harshest possible terms I condemn political killings. We together stopped judicial executions with the abolition of the death penalty. We urge witnesses to come forward. Together we will stop extrajudicial executions.
Central Philippines has the competitive edge in tourism in its natural wonders and the extraordinary hospitality of its people. The area sweeps across Palawan and Romblon, the Visayas and Bicol, plus the northern Mindanao islands of Camiguin, Siargao and Dapitan. Topbilled by Boracay, Cebu, Bohol and Palawan, it attracts more than half of the foreign tourists to the Philippines. It is also the center of geothermal power in the country, which we continue to develop.
The priority here is tourism investments. Coming soon for superstar Boracay are an instrument landing system for the Kalibo airport and a P3 billion private investment in a San Jose, Romblon airport, plus good roads to spillover destinations all over Panay.
In Cebu, Gwen Garcia is constructing a world-class convention center for the ASEAN and East Asian Summits in December.
Helping our infrastructure upgrading, is the fall in bribery for public sector contracts in Metro Cebu, from 62% of companies in 2004 to 47 today. Congratulations to Cardinal Vidal for shepherding his flock and to Metro Cebu Mayors Osmena, Ouano and Fernandez, and Metro Cebu representatives del Mar, Cuenco, Gullas and Soon-Ruiz.
Bohol became a destination distinct from Cebu since it defeated the terrorist insurgency with community initiatives led by the power tandem of Rico Aumentado and General Johnny Gomez, now the NCR Commander. It now merits its own international airport, just as our country deserves a world-class Constitution strongly supported by Governor Aumentado and the league of local authorities.
Tourism in Palawan requires the upgrading of the airports of Puerto Princesa, Busuanga, San Vicente (hometown of Congressman Alvarez that's why he's clapping) and the building of a new one in Balabac; as well as a continuous road backbone from El Nido to Bataraza.
We will lengthen the Dumaguete runway for tourism as well as electronics. Valencia, Oriental Negros could attract semiconductor firms with power rates subsidized by the geothermal field of Palimpinon. Negros will also advance energy independence with ethanol projects in San Carlos City and Tamlang Valley, once the biofuel law is passed. (You have done your part, Migs)
We will serve Guimaras by the airport being built in Santa Barbara, Iloilo and by a new RORO port in Sibunag. We will link Sipalay via Silay airport funded by the national government and Kabankalan airport being built by its local government. Thank you.
For Bicol's whalesharks, beaches and, of course, Mount Mayon, we have started acquiring the right of way for an international airport in Daraga, Albay. We will provide the means to the perfect surfs of the Pacific by upgrading the airports of Siargao, Guiuan and Tacloban.
We will widen the road to Dakak in Dapitan, and RORO will connect Siquijor to Santander, Cebu; Camiguin to Jagna, Bohol; Ubay, Bohol to Maasin, Southern Leyte, for diving in Limasawa.
We will bring Masbate and Biliran into the RORO Eastern Nautical Highway from Surigao through Leyte through Naval and Maripipi in Biliran through Esperanza, Aroroy and Burias Island in Masbate and on to Bicol. The much-awaited 10-megawatt generator set arrived in Masbate last Saturday. It is ready to power up the province before the end of the month.
Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism these provinces can become rich.
Also winning the war against poverty and calamity, undaunted by unimaginable catastrophe, the valiant people of Southern Leyte, under the leadership of Rosette Lerias and Oging Mercado (our Rudy Guliani) are rebuilding the lives of Saint Bernard and San Francisco from their tragic mudslides. Yesterday, I asked the Japanese government to help Southern Leyte implement an integrated management approach to deal with their critical ecosystem, like the one the World Bank has approved for the Bicol River Basin.
Mindanao is our priority for agribusiness investments in the south. Mindanao is mostly fertile and largely typhoon-free, exporting coconut products and high value crops, and from its waters come 40% of the country's fish catch. Our investment priorities mirror those for North Luzon, and more because Mindanao has the poorest regions and poorest provinces and because we have to spend on a logistics system linking it to the north.
In 2003 we introduced the RORO from Zamboanga del Norte through Negros, Panay and Mindoro to Batangas. This system has slashed travel time from Mindanao to Luzon from 36 hours to 24 hours, and freight cost by 30 percent, so crucial to food shipments. Now we will develop more routes like the one from Cagayan de Oro through Camiguin, Bohol, Cebu and Masbate to Bicol, the Central Nautical Highway.
Also in 2003, Sulu, Lanao del Sur, and Tawitawi registered double-digit declines in poverty incidence from the year 2000. Congratulations.
Kitang-kita ang pag-ibayo ng mga isla ng Sulu, Basilan at Tawi-Tawi. Nagbukas ang Jollibee sa Basilan. The Balikatan exercises with the United States, combined with the US GEM program and other donor-assisted projects, have no doubt contributed to this.
Sa Sulu, isang araw ng Mayo, umuulan, nagwakas ang isang mahabang pagtutunggali nang pumasok ang mga kawal at sibilyan sa Kampong Bitan-ag sa Panamao na hawak ng mga rebelde. Nagyakapan at nagkamayan ang dalawang panig. Dahil sa matinding pagnanais para sa kapayapaan ni Marine General Ben Dolorfino, naganap ang pagkakasundo. Gayon natapos ang isang madugong kabanata. Congratulations, General Ben Dolorfino.
Susi sa anumang pag-ibayo ang malakas na suporta at ma-abilidad na liderato ng pamahalaang local. Halimbawa, iyong "from arms to farms¿¿ ni Governor Ben Loong ng Sulu, with his caravan of tractors literally invading former rebel camps in his province. Congratulations.
Mahigit isang linggong nakaraan, dumating sa "Eleven Islands" ang daan-daang rebeldeng at kanilang pamilya, sa pamumuno ng dating MNLF Commander na si Aribari Samson. Dito sa mga pulo na kilalang "no man's island," dati nagtatago ang mga rebelde at criminal. Ngayon sa tulong ng isang programa ng United Nations, nagtayo tayo ng dalawang daang tahanan at panibagong buhay para sa pangkat ni Samson. Thank you for giving peace a chance. Congratulations, Commander Samson.
I take this occasion to express our gratitude to the donor community from the US, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the European Union, Australia, Japan, our ASEAN neighbors, the multilaterals and the rest of the world. Thank you for helping us in our peace process.
If we can harness the forces of good in our nation, the positive force at work here at home and those from abroad such as the US, Malaysia, the OIC and others, we shall prevail in Mindanao with a peace agreement that brings freedom and hope to all Filipinos. With this peace, we would reap dividends in resources invested in agribusiness, not aggression, to build up, not tear down, the Philippine south.
Among the possible peace dividends would be pro-poor road projects like the Siocon-Sirawai-Sibuco-Baligyan Road in Zamboanga del Norte; the Lebak to Maguindanao which Sim Datumanong started when he was Secretary of Public Works; the Dinagat Island road network in Surigao Del Norte; the Hawilian-Salug-Sinakungan barangay road in Agusan del Sur; the Pangil Bay Bridge; and the Surigao-Davao Road, which we want to be as beautiful as the Bukidnon Highway completed during the administration of Joe Zubiri and the term of Migs Zubiri.
Mindanao's number one export, coconuts, has been growing continuously for the last three years, at the rate of 10% a year. The coconut farmers deserve a portion of the peace dividend. I invite Congress and the Bishops-Ulama-Priests-Pastors-Farmer-Lumad Conference led by Archbishop Fernando Capalla to help me ensure their rightful share.
On top of peace and investment, progress also demands good governance. I congratulate Donkoy Emano for the drop in reports of corruption for public contracts in Cagayan de Oro from 65% of firms last year to 38 this year. Also Rudy Duterte and the other leaders of Metro Davao led by Majority Leader Boy Nograles for a similar drop, 57% last year to 49 now. Things are coming together for Mindanao, a prelude to their readiness for eventual federalism.
The Cyber Corridor will boost telecommunications, technology and education. The corridor runs the length of all the super regions, from Baguio to Cebu to Davao. The cities of Davao, Tagum and Samal Island Garden all operate electronic government accounting systems. There are many wings now to the corridor because enterprising local executives like L-Ray Villafuerte and Jerry Trenas have aggressively attracted call centers to their jurisdictions (Congratulations, Jerry) In this corridor, the English and information and communication technology skills of the youth give them a competitive edge in call centers and other business process outsourcing.
In 2001, in this hall, we hailed ICT as a key growth sector. So we built up telecommunications infrastructure and opened the market for Internet phone calls. Today international calls cost 6 cents a minute, down from 40 cents. From 2,000 BPO workers in 2001, we now have 200,000.
I had coffee with some call center agents last Labor Day. Lyn, a new college graduate, told me, "Now I don't have to leave the country in order for me to help my family. Salamat po." I was so touched, Lyn by your comments. With these structural reforms, we not only found jobs, but kept families intact. Thank God, I thought, or someone might also try to impeach me for violating Article 15 of the Constitution on the solidarity of the family as the foundation of the nation.
As Louie Villafuerte argues, to step into the future, a country that wants to be a player in the global economy needs bold and well-funded research and development initiatives of its own. To this end, we will continuously increase the budget for science and technology, and education. For in today's global economy, knowledge is the greatest creator of wealth.
In summary, I named only a few priorities to illustrate that on many fronts, your government is working, and working well. Our economy is now growing over the longest period in the last quarter-century: 22 consecutive quarters of growth. Umakyat ng mahigit tatlumpung porsyento ang kita ng pinakamahihirap na pamilya sa unang tatlong taon ng ating panunungkulan, at bumaba ang dami ng maralita sa 25% ng mga pamilya, mula 28%, katumbas ng dalawang milyong katao na lumaya sa kahirapan. According to Thornton and Punongbayan, 70% of medium-sized business owners are optimistic, the fifth most optimistic among 30 countries, just behind India, Ireland, South Africa and China.
Bickering in politics may delay, but not derail the initiatives that need to be taken on our pro-poor, pro-growth, and pro-peace agenda. Regardless of the fate of the national budget, we must automate our election process. Local governments must get their rightful share of revenues. I ask Congress to pass a supplemental budget to effect this.
We are a great people. We have honest students and honest cops. We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world. Individually, we've taken the world on and won; together, we must take on the challenge of creating a new, peaceful, humane and competitive nation and prevail.
For those who want to pick up old fights, we're game but what a waste of time. Why not join hands instead? Join hands in the biggest challenge of all, where we all win or we all lose: the battle for the survival and progress of our one and only country.
After three years, eleven months, and six days, I shall relinquish the Presidency, with much if not all that I have outlined completed. I do not want it said then that, in the end, I defeated my enemies. I would rather have it said that all of us, you and I, friends and foes today, achieved together a country progressive, prosperous and united.
Thank you. Mabuhay!

SONA ng Pangulo 2006(Mga puna sa pangyayari at ang media)

2006-07-25T17:54:00.000-07:00

Hulyo 24, 2006- Ang mahal na Pangulong Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ay nag - hayag ng kanyang pang-anim na State of the Nation Address sa Batasang Pambansa.
Umaga palang ay sinubaybayan na ang kanyang SONA sa pamamagitan ng kabi-kabilaang pag-brodkast ng ibat-ibang sangay ng media. Maging kabi-kabilaang protesta ay sumalubong din sa SONA ng pangulo.

Nakatakda ng alas-kwatro (4:00pm) ng hapon ang inaantabayanang SONA ng Presidente, ngunit alastres trenta (3:30pm) palang ng hapon ay nakaantabay na ang media at naka-subaybay na sa kaganapan.

Sa aking panonood ng live special broadcasts na ginawa ng ABS-CBN, napansin ko kung paano iniaangkop ng mga Broadcaster at Reporter ang kanilang news program sa SONA.

Dito binigyan ng buhay sa pangunguna nina Ted Failon at Korina Sanchez ang pamamahayag na nasa ABS-CBN news and current affairs center studio, suot ang eleganteng Barong at Filipiňiana. Maging Si Karen Davila at iba pang kasama na nasa loob at labas ng batasan ay nakasuot din ng kanilang eleganteng barong at Filipiňana na damit. Ganoon din ang mga reporter na nakaantabay sa mga raliyista sa Commonwealth Avenue at maging sa parte ng Cebu at Davao, ay naka eleganteng suot din.

Ang masasabi ko lamang ay napaka propisyunal ng ating mga press members . Sila ay kagalang-galang at isinasabuhay ang ika-labing isang tuntunin na nakaploob sa tinatawag na The Philippine Journalist’s Code of Ethics na-

I shall conduct myself in public or while performing
my duties as journalist in such manner as t maintain
The dignity of my profession. When in doubt,
decency should be my watchword.

Talaga namang naging kapansin-pansin ang kanilang mga damit. Hindi lang sila naging elegante at propisyunal, binuhay pa nila ang tema ng pagka-nasyonalismo sa kanilang pag-papahayag. Kung ganito kaya ang suot nila sa ordinaryong pamamahayag?.

Hindi naging lingid ang pag-silip sa kung anoman ang lalamanin ng SONA ng pangulo kahapon. Kaya ngat sa umpisa palang ng pag-subabay sa SONA ay naghayag na ang ABS-CBN ng kung anomang laman ng SONA ng pangulo, na di- umanoy patungkol sa ekonomiya at hindi politika. Hindi naman ito nag-kamali sa kanyang inihayag dahil ito nga mismo ang naging tema ng SONA ni PGMA. Bungad palang ng SONA ay kumpirmadong patungkol nga ito sa “economic development program” para sa bansa. Ito nga ang kanyang inihayag:

So I stand before you today to deliver a sate of the nation that
is focused on what the people want; the people want to know the plan to put us on the path to prosperity.
I am not here to talk about Politics; I am here to talk about what the people want; details on the state of the nation and what their government is doing to make progress every single day.
Sama-sama nating isusulong ang bansa patungo sa kinabukasang nagniningning.
Gaya ng nakikita sa graph na ito, dahil sa ating reporma sa ekonomiya, we now have the funds to address social inequity and economic disparity….

Sa sitwasyong ito-napahanga ako sa ABS-CBN sa pag-kalap nila ng impormasyon, sa mga lingkage na kanilang nakuha, na nagsasabing may kridibilidad sila sa kanilang mga ibinabalita.Sila ay may malakas na pang-amoy sa kanilang ibabalita. Muli ay isinabuhay nila ang Journalist’s Code of Ethics na-

I shall scrupulously report and interpret the news,
taking care not to suppress essential facts nor to
distort the truth by omission or improper emphasis.
I recognize the duty to air the other side and the
duty to correct substantive errors promptly.

Naging matiwasay man ang pag-subaybay at paghayag ng SONA kahapon. At ipinakita man ng mga batikang mamahayag sa telebisyon ang pag-sasabuhay ng journalist code of ethics. Hindi naman nag-pahuli ang mga manunulat sa diyaryo at ibat-ibang mass-medium sa pag-lalathala ng impormasyon.

Kinabukasan matapos ang SONA ay Headline o Banner na sa mga broadsheet at tabloid ang SONA ni PGMA.

Kung sa telebisyon ay autimatikong naipapakita ang diliberasyon ng SONA ng pangulo, maging ang powerpoint presentation niya. Sa Dyaryo tulad ng Manila Standard Today ay halos lamanin naman ng dalawang pahina ang SONA ni PGMA. Mula sa introduksyon niyang … Sa Araw na ito, …hanggang sa huling sinabi niyang Thank You. Mabuhay! ay ditalyadong nasulat.

Sa dalawang medium na ito,ang telebisyon at dyaryo ,makikita kung gaano kaimportante at nag-kaiba ang kanilang pamamaraan ng pamamahayag. Hindi ko man masyado naintindihan si PGMA dahil sa kanyang -medyo lang naman- na “ speech defect and destructive mannerism which makes me laugh ” habang naglalahad ng kanyang SONA sa telebisyon, ay nakuha ko naman ang kanyang pinupunto sa pamamagitan ng pag-basa ulit ng kanyang SONA sa dyaryo. Siguro ay may pagka-bingi ako, o may sira ang telebisyon namin o natatawa lang talaga ako sa kanya?

Hindi ko man nakuhanan ng Video Camera ang kanyang SONA sa telebisyon, ay maitatago ko naman ang buo at masmalalim na ditalye ng kanyang SONA dahil sa pagbili ko ng dyaryo. Ganito kahalaga ang dyaryo at telebisyon bilang medium ng pamamahayag. Magka-pareho man ang nilalaman na balita, ay magkaiba naman ng pamamaraan sa pag-gamay ng balita. Alam naman siguro natin ang pinag-kaiba ng telebisyon sa dyaryo?

Sa mga malalayong nayon, sigurado, ay tumutok sa SONA sa pamamgitan naman ng kanilang transistor Radio’s. At ang mga nasa ibang bansa pwede naman nilang makuha ang buong kaganapan sa SONA via TFC ( The Filipino Channel ) o via- internet website ng mga pangunahing search engines at website ngayon. Sa katunayan nga, katatapos palang ng pag-ere ng balita sa Telebisyon , tulad ng GMA-7 network ay ihinahayag na nila na pwedeng kunin ang impormasyon ng SONA ng pangulo sa kanilang website.

Kung ating susumain ay hindi na ganoon kahirap ang pag-kalap ng impormasyon. May Telebisyon, Diyaryo , Radyo at maging ang universal access of information through internet connections. Wala ng mahirap ngayon, may pagpipilian ng mga mass medium, ang kailangan nayon ay pagsuri sa kredibilidad ng mga mass medium na ito sa kung paano nila inilalahad ang katotohanan.

Natapos man ang SONA ni PGMA, hindi huminto sa araw nayon ang usapin. Binusisi ito ng media at hindi huminto sa pagbatikos sa kung anomang angulo ng storya na nais nilang palabasin. Tulad na lamang ng pagkuha ng Reaksyon ng Publiko, Economista, Oposisyon at mga nag-aaral sa daloy ng Pulitika ng Pilipinas. Ganoon din ang pag-batikos sa nilalaman ng SONA tulad ng tanong na “ Saan kukunin ng Pangulo ang pundo para sa proyekto?” na naging report sa ABS-CBN World.

Ganoon man ay ipinapakita lamang ng mga ginawang ito ng media kung gaano sila makapangyarihan. Na sa aking tingin ay susi sa pagpapalabas ng kabutihan at kasamaan ng kung anomang isyu, lalo na ang SONA na naglalaman ng magaganda pero kailangan ng mas-konkreto pang sagot sa ilang tanong sa kung paano ito maisasakatuparan samantalang lubog ang Pilipinas sa utang. Dahil sa pagiging isang check and balance function ng media hindi lamang dapat ang Presidente ang makatanggap ng 166 na palakpak maging ang media din.#

BANDILA ng Pilipinas sa - BANDILA

2006-07-16T20:17:00.000-07:00

'Bandila’
ABS-CBN raises the flag of journalism excellence
By Ayn Veronica L. de Jesus (from Manila Times)

ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. hopes to change the face of Philippine television by moving its late night news program Insider to an earlier time slot. What’s more, the new program will be titled Bandila, which is the Filipino word for flag.
Maria Ressa (standing), head of ABS-CBN’s news and current affairs, says “tabloid news is not sensationalism.” Looking on are the Bandila’s management team: (seated, from left) Luchi Cruz Valdez, Charo Santos-Concio, Gabby Lopez and Chari Villa.
The move “is an act of leadership,” said Maria Ressa, head of the network’s news and current affairs division, explaining the choice for the title at a press conference on Tuesday. Her message: Nationalism, not merely ratings, will drive the news.
When Ressa took over the helm of the news division in June 2005, she noticed—not just in ABS-CBN—that programming in recent the years had become entertainment-driven. Particularly by consecutive soap operas—comprised of local and foreign telenovelas, fantaseryes and reality shows—which are shown from 7:30 p.m. onwards. The effect on the delivery of news is that it is pushed very late into the evening.
“We’re taking a risk here by moving the news to 10:30 p.m.,” she pointed out, so that viewers don’t have to stay awake wait until midnight to get their information.
The move not only aims to bring the news earlier to viewers, but also to polish the network’s image specifically, and that of media on the whole.
“Media has been getting a lot of negative publicity lately,” said Luchi Cruz Valdez, who has been tasked to head Bandila’s program production, adding that many viewers had begun to turn away from watching the news because most items focus on political bickerings, economic slump and national degradation. “We were feeding on that depression. We felt the time was right to do something,” she elaborated.
Ressa and Valdez are part of the management team that will oversee the daily production of Bandila.
Skip entertainment?
To be conducted in Filipino, Bandila will compete head on with entertainment programs in other channels.
“We have a double mandate,” Ressa said. “We will give viewers the information to help them make decisions in their lives. But we should also give this in a form that will make them forego entertainment [in the other channels in the same timeslot.]”
To attain this, “Bandila will go beyond just reporting news. There will be analysis that the ordinary person can process, to give them a better perspective of what’s happening in the country.”
She negated the possibility of delivering the news in a sensationalized manner, for which ABS-CBN has been criticized in the past.
“Tabloid news has become the norm globally. But tabloid news does not mean sensationalism. Tabloid news is appealing to the emotions of the viewers and going deeper into the issue.”
Ressa explained that while TV Patrol World, which airs at 6:30 p.m., will give audiences the who, what, where and when of the news, “Bandila will give them the how and why.
“We will start with the micro, the human interest, the person affected by the issue. Then we will give the macro, how an issue will affect the cost of doing business, its impact on the economy and the country.”
She explained, “in a country where most homes just have one television set, viewers tend to switch channels if they don’t like a certain show. That means they’re looking for content. The A and B crowd has more sources of content because they have cable television. But the C, D and E markets really don’t have a choice. So we want to give them another source of news aside from the early editions.
Explosive content, glitzy production
Chari Villa, who is also part of the management team and tasked with managing content, expressed confidence in being able to find and provide the stuff that viewers want, with the support of ABS-CBN’s infrastructure.
“I’m banking on ABS-CBN’s infrastructure to help me gather the content,” she said, emphasizing that the network’s 18 sites, including bureaus in the United States, Middle East, Europe, and soon Australia, will greatly support the team’s aim of providing more comprehensive and high-quality reportage.
The program will focus on national issues, but will also feature some police stories if they are significant, Villa added.
Valdez for her part, says the newscast’s pacing will be much different from the early edition in that there will be more glitz, more debate, more reactions. “It’s not going to be a replay of TV Patrol. The pacing will be faster,” she said, describing the format as maingay and makulay (noisy and colorful).
“There will be a lot of talking heads. It will be visually exciting.”
Veteran journalists
Korina Sanchez, Ces Drilon and Henry Omaga Diaz will anchor Bandila, each of them bringing 20 or more years of broadcast journalism experience into the newscast. The move also brings Sanchez back to newscasting after two years out of TV Patrol.
Ressa said the management team decided to replace Dong Puno from the late newscast Insider because of his “intellectual” image. “We want to deliver information through people who have a broader appeal and can talk to the masses.

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BANDILA ng Pilipinas sa - BANDILA

Sa unang pag-“ere” nito sa telebisyon ay naging mainit at usap-usapan agad ito, dahil sa pag-labas ng di-umanoy “ exclusive video” ng mga sangkot na sundalong opisyal sa “ Magdalo “ group”.

Ang naturang programa ay pinagtambalan nina Korina Sanchez, Ces Oreňa Drilon, at Henry Omaga Diaz. Sila ang ngayoy mga kilalang personalidad na namamayagpag sa larangan ng pamamahayag . Kung ihahalindtulad sila sa napiling pambansang sagisag – sila ang tatlong bituin na sumisimbolo ng tatlong malalaking isla ng Pilipinas.
Sina Korina, Ces at Henry, ang tatlong bituing nagniningning, na gumganap ng kanikanilang parte sa programa.

Wala pang buwan ang pamamayagapag ng Bandila sa telebisyon . Kung susukatin ay pinalitan nito ang dating programang THE INSIDER na napapanood matapos ang “primetime” (7:00- 10:00 pm).

Moderno ang “ news format” ng progaramang Bandila. Mula “logo” ng programa na -Bandila ng Pilipinas- hanggang sa opisyal na musika nito, makikita ang pagkakaiba nito sa mga “news programs”.

Sa LOGO- pinag hirapan talaga ang konsepto nito na may temang nasyonalismo, at ang MUSIKA- na gawa pa ng isang banding pinoy. Sa kanilang napiling logo ….ang bandila , ihinahalintulad nila ang programa ng tulad sa isinisimbolo ng BANDILA ang….

Each part of the Philippine flag has a specific meaning as follows:The blue field stands for common unity and the noble aspirations of the Filipino people.The white triangle with equal sides of the flag is symbolic of equality among men.The white field stands for purity.The sun represents the gigantic strides that have been made by the Sons of the land on the road to progress and civilisation.The eight rays of the sun in the triangle represent the first eight united provinces that revolted for independence - Batangas, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, Manila, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga and Tarlac.The three stars in the triangle stand for the three major geographical divisions of the country - Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.The red field symbolises the willingness of the Filipino people to shed blood in defence of their country

Ito ang sinisimbolo ng kanilang serbisyo at paglilingkod sa loob at labas ng bansa.

Maging sa editing ay kakaiba ang pag gamay ng technical directors, sa Characater generators at maging crawlers tuwing ito ay lumalabas sa telebisyon.

Pero kung ating titignan ay tama ba ang pag-gamit ng ating pambansang bandila sa isang programang pang-telebisyon?
Hindi bat may batas na nag-sasaad na bawal ang pag-gamit ng bandila?

Philippine law is particularly strict as to how the Philippine flag should and should not be displayed. There are also other points that need to be noted. When flown from a flagpole, the white triangle is closest to the flagpole, or when the flag is displayed horizontally, the white triangle should be on the left. If the flag is displayed vertically, or hanging downwards, then the white triangle should be at the top. In addition, the Philippine flag has a unique peacetime and wartime state. In peacetime, the blue stripe is at the top when the flag is horizontal or on the left when the flag is vertical. In wartime, the red stripe is at the top when the flag is horizontal or on the left when the flag is vertical.

Sa iyong nabasa, tama ba ang pag-wagay way ng bandila natin sa telebisyon? Naayon ba ito sa isinasaad ng batas?

Maging ganoon man, kapansinpansin ang pag-dami at pag-babago ng mga programang nagbibigay impormasyon na kailangan natin. Mga programang nag-nanais mag-balita ng tama at Panig sa Katotohanan.

Pero kailangan parin nating maging kritikal at pansinin ang pahayagan, mamamahayag at kanilang ihinahayag na impormasyon. Dahil ang media ay sadyang makapangyarihan , na pwede tayong ma kontrol at impluwensiyahan.

ni Marie Joy Madrid

-XXX- POWER OF MEDIA

2006-07-09T21:57:00.001-07:00

ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs have this –XXX-program in channel 2. It’s a special program hosted by Ms. Karen Davila, Julius Babao, and Henry Omaga- Diaz.

If you watched the program, you can see the concern of the team for Public Service. Here, they do thorough research and observation on whatever exposé’s they release. Here, Police and Media goes together to solve the problem.

In their episode last Saturday, July 08, they feature the issue of Manila North Cemetery (rotten skeletons scattered at the place and some open “ nitso” or tomb of the dead), the other is swindler cable man pretend as employee from sky cable a “sister company of ABS-CBN” (they ask payment to those houses who want an access to Cable but did’nt know that they are going to wrong cable man doing illegal connections), the last expose is the couple involved in staffa (nagsasanla sila ng bahay at lupa na hindi sa kanaila). All of these tree issues are presented well and got an immediate action, all are resolve through the help of media cameras and police assets as well as the program XXX.

As I watched the show, I find media as very powerful means in solving crimes. Actually, I realized why can’t media be the Police of our political system? Maybe in different aspect they can be police? How? More questions still are left on me.

At what sense Media is Powerful:

In XXX episode, I find media as powerful in correcting the flaws of our political system, the government and the officials who govern it. Example is, when Karen Davila got footage in the Manila North Cemetery, she immediately went to Manila City hall for immediate reaction and action of official regarding the problem. Here, you can view the manifestation of power to media as well as the media institution credible and reliable in telling the truth. That is why when Karen showed it, the officials immediately apologize and removed the officials who neglected their duty.

Another, Media is very powerful to gain the cooperation of Police. No more words to say, just an evident footage gathered by surveillance Camera’s, the XXX staff got the support of Police. Unlike when ordinary people report the problem, police will just ignore it. Here, example is the hoax cable man. When XXX team showed the caught in the act illegal operation of the two cable man, together with police, the media solve the problem. It only showed how media again is very powerful for immediate resolution.

Why don’t we let media solve all these commotion around our society?
Is this the role of Media?

Nowadays, Media seems to go beyond its true role. Today, media as an institution can manipulate and control people to whatever information it convey. They are able to get connections to responsible government offices in solving problems

In some instances, media became unethical to get information. They are so powerful to the point that criminal and those under siege by the law ask help to them. It seems that media is God to praise and salute giving everyone the chance to voice out their summons.

If in the past we contradict church involvement in government issues. We stand to be “anti-clerical”, now I think media replaced them to the point that most government officials came from media and media has a great involvement in our political system. Well, we can’t deny that media is powerful and it can be a means for propaganda movements.

Media is powerful, true. But media must be responsible in whatever freedom they had. If they can be more than a watchdog and they know that they can help to our institution. They can do so. But media must not abuse its power because we all know that if power is abused it will all goes back to them.

To the members of media, media practitioners, just remember, “No story worth dying for”, even the media institution you belong can’t help you when you’re in trouble.

Be JUST….objective, balance, fair and accurate for the TRUTH.

Media is a source and manifestation of power, it can corrupt you anytime even you don’t want to be corrupt.

TWISTER “No story worth Dying For”

2006-07-02T03:04:00.000-07:00

Twister is a film directed by Jan De Bont.
It is a film bringing “the Dark Side of Nature”
Jan De Bont is also the producer of “JURRASIC PARK” and the Director of “SPEED”.

The Film Twister is a story full of “adventure swirling with cliffhanging excitement and awe-some special effects, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play scientists pursuing the most destructive weather front to sweep through mid-America’s Tornado Alley in 50 years. By launching electronic sensors in to the funnel, the storm chasers hope to obtain enough data to create an improved warning system. But to do so, they must intercept the twisters’ deadly path. The chase is on!” This is how the movie goes.

The film is very excellent by incorporating mass media principles. The production showed how haggard it is to predict the unpredictable events like tornado attacks. Here, life is at steak, like stories or news events, which is very hard to predict, when will it happen and where the stories will be. And this must a good journalist or broadcasters should know to get reports, the “ nose for news”.

One scene of the movie showed how technology works. It speed up every task in detecting tornadoes. It gives power to the one who hold it. But not all the time it helps, mostly if the person manipulating it, has no enough knowledge and almost dependent to it without even checking other resources of information.
This happened to John (another actor) and his group, who belittle Joe (Helen Hunt) and her group of scientists. There is a tight competition between the two. And in some point, John, used to be a colleague boast that they have the latest gadget, showing their superiority, and almost forgetting traditional ways in getting information. He also do unethical ways by copying information that their transmitter received from Joe’s group, where the direction of tornado is. Even making same device like “Dorothy” (a balls of camera which must be fly out at the funnel of tornado) to know the component of tornado and to catch full view of it.
Despite this, Joe (Helen Hunt) and her group of scientist who also cover the event. With all the gadgets, camera, OB-Van, transmitters with also computers specially programmed, that for them are okay, still rely on traditional ways in getting information. With maps, data gathered before, instinct of where is the direction of winds by not only relying to computers result. They are able to get the information. They don’t get any hesitation to stop them in their adventure.
To the journalist and broadcasters, to all media practitioners this must also be a model. Always cross-checked, verify, and don’t rely to only one source of information as well as dependent to technology. Don’t forget the traditional ways instead used them as essential to add more strategy in bringing out the story.
The situation pointed out above only showed same situation face by reporters. Wherein they are chasing same sources of information, competing to colleagues in getting the G’s of the story and in some instances reporters betrays their colleagues forgetting ethics just to get the information. They “kureyente their colleagues giving wrong information.
The story revolves in chasing tornados. Showing “houses rips a part piece by piece. A bellowing cow spins through the air. Tractors fall like rain. A 15,000-pound gasoline tanker becomes an air borne bomb. A mile- wide 300-miles per hour force of total devastation is coming at you”. The main actors of the movie didn’t give up, determined and full alert in chasing the tornado and take coverage.
Do you think journalist or broadcasters can do this? Like Noli De Castro of Magandang Gabi Bayan before, whom stand up at a mud rushing and flowing caused by volcanic eruption in Pampangga is great?

Well, no story worth dying for! Public service is public service, to be a reporter is a job to be done but if your life is at steak you can do ways to avoid your “death”. How?

WHEN DOING PUBLIC JOURNALISM, DON’T FROGET….

ü To rethink your role in the community as journalist, citizen and stake holder
ü That journalism should be guided by basic human values
ü The basics (accuracy, brevity, balance clarity and fairness).
ü To use investigative reporting skills to peel the layers of public life in the community.
ü To examine and report what’s wrong …and also what’s working
ü To bring in more voices in the news coverage and story
ü To synthesize and not simply record events and information
ü That journalist should always set the news agenda
ü To provide context to give readers and audience a sense of place and history
ü That public journalism is an attitude and set of values
ü That it is something that journalists must want to do and that it is commitment over the long term
ü That the public is the intended outcome rather than the assumed audience

PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC JOURNALISM

ü Careful, timely, and sensitive listening to community needs
ü Systematic consultation of the community by means of polls and focus groups
ü Listening more closely to his or her audience and facilitating dialoged or “conversation” so that everyone talks. Participatory communication across differences, particularly in a multi-cultural society, to create “reciprocity”.
ü Dialogue with panels of resources specialists chosen for the differing expertise and perspectives
ü Media-sponsored public forum on key issues.
ü Continuity of in-depth reporting on issues chosen independently by journalists for their immediate relevance to citizen’s concerns.
ü The journalist must be a “fair-minded participant in a community that works” the journalist must become a properly attached advocate of serious talk to enable the community to recognize itself and make choices.

Source: Breaking the Norms
Published by the Center for Community Journalism and Development.

These pointers only means self-discipline is the key, together with living the knowledge you have right, in doing your job.
Don’t take the risk if you know there are choices and a safest way to bring the truth in your story. To be a good journalist means to live forever and not to die in just one story.

The essence of journalism is this no story worth your life!

A GOOD FACE OF REPORTAGE The Jessica Sojo Reports

2006-07-02T02:58:00.000-07:00

Every Saturday, at about eight thirty in the evening or earlier, GMA network has this Jessica Sojo Reports program. Jessica Sojo, a woman, part of the news and current affairs program of the station, anchors the segment.

The kind of news she broadcast is quite investigative in approach and feature articles. For example is her episode about putik last July 1, Saturday. In the way she handle it, Jessica Sojo give different angles of the story. What are those?

Jessica give point on how different kind of mud became a work of art and a material for art. Here she presents the people in a place who used to celebrate the gift of nature using mud as paint in a competition. She interviewed different visual artist and make up artist how this special mud in the place was used in art.

In this case Jessica got the G’s of the story right. She has the reliable sources and good actualization of the story presented in the video showed at the Television.

Not only in art, she also features the usefulness of mud in the point of view of the entrepreneurs. Where in, she exampled how “red egg” are done by discussing and showing in the video how the process goes using a mud. Even interviewing a man who molds clay as a form of business in some part of Pampangga. She got a thorough research how the business goes regarding the used of clay.

The usefulness of mud is also discussed in a matter of how it was used as beauty agent and in its contribution to health. Covering a SPA using mud to beautify their costumers. This good reporter point out how mud helps in aging. By also simply discussing the component of mud “scientifically” which is good in skin, Jessica also got another side of the story regarding how mud is good for the health.

Using the Episode of JEWEL in the Palace in GMA, which showed KOREAN food in their show. Again she got another approach regarding how mud serve as an ingredients in food or material for food preparations like the CHIKEN MUD cuisine of one Korean restaurant. In the footage together with a voiceover, they showed the preparation of chicken, which is covered with a mud to moderate the temperature while it is soak in the firewood.

In the Religious aspect or belief of Filipino people, Jessica also showed how essential mud is. Featuring a place in Nueva Ecija. People here; cover their self of mud as a sign of humility accepting their sins, and believing that human came from mud. Here another side of story again was showed, where mud is part of Religious belief.

In these different news angle of the story using one topic, which is mud or putik, is great. Because they are able to explore it in different manner and approaches, which must a good journalists or media practitioner, do.

Showing the different approach and faces of the story only means a well-researched report. It only showed Jessica Sojo and those people who are part of the production who make it that they are not indolent in getting information. Wherein, they travel, cover and gather information patiently to bring a very good reportage.

The show is not only an example of a worthy news and current affairs program. It’s not only about profit and increase of viewers. If ever that it is the top rating show, I would say, they deserved it. For they did well, in they’re every weekly episode.

This kind of Jessica Sojo Report program must be an example to all media men. That living with journalistic enterprise, which is to be a “determined, patient, and diligent” reporter, could end to good, credible, reliable and informative news.

Mass Media news programs are all about business and entertainment nowadays neglecting their part as an information giver. They turned out to be audience conscious to get or to be the top rating. But these two negative factors turned out to be good in Jessica’s program. For despite that it’s business news to GMA network, still it plays its role to entertain and inform the public.

The show is not merely for the viewers to watch and appreciate. It is also a good example of an excellent model for journalism and broadcast practice. This was must a media men and media outfit does that has their own agenda to mold their job.

To those incoming media practitioners, to all journ-schools, to those mass communication teachers and students, to the media networks and media programs, to those who are in the media industry.

These show must serve as an example in improving the debasing media programs and media practitioners we have here in the Philippines. #

By.
Marie Joy D. Madrid
University of the Philippines –BaguioJournalism and Broadcasting Communication Student

The Watchdog is ill

2006-06-25T04:11:00.000-07:00

Mass media news programs today are very showbiz. This thing is obviously diminishing the reliability and credibility of news, even news anchors.

The traditional news programs genre now turned more unto entertainment. There exist the power of drama as an element to catch viewer’s attentions. This is the usual approach of mass media news programs in the Philippines. The point is “it sells”, so why not? If it’s the way to be a top rating news program, then apply the drama strategy thing.

Different media outfits have over used its power. It almost goes beyond the boundaries of journalistic and broadcasting principles. News formats became very sensationalized, tabloid approach, somewhat even ethics is being neglected. Here “the bloodier the news, the better and the more it sells”, regardless of who is in the headline or articles released.

The airwaves are becoming polluted. Rules and Regulations in a Free Press country like Philippines is not that adequately implemented. Now, the watchdog should observe its problems. They must be given sanctions and additional rules to fixed their media organizations.

Cleaning the airwaves is hard. For we know that in Article 3 Section 4, it says:

No Law shall be passed abridging
the freedom of speech, expression
and right of people.

But obviously the system is worst. The Freedom to Express has not given weight with a great responsibility by those journalists, broadcasters even the media outfits. They just aired what they find good or sells to people. Media set their own agendas for business. Journalist and Broadcasters just write and speak or reports, neglecting the principles they learned. This is now the trend, which developed from the past mistakes caused by being so “free”.

Thinking about this situation. Do you find it right not to pass a law to regulate the thriving problem in media? Finding this downside of the Philippine Press does makes you want to be part of the system? Do you want to be in GMA-7 or ABS-CBN? What can you do? Are you going to be one? Does it makes you say, “ If you can’t beat them, then join them”? Think of it.