Going blind
Girl gets abducted in a mall. Robbers strike a bank in the middle of the day.
What's wrong with these news items?
Since when did legitimate frontpage news material become blind items? What's going on here? Why can't ABS-CBN and GMA say SM Megamall or BPI anymore?
What's with all the secrecy?
Alright, I can understand if they refuse to mention Nike when they air a Lebron James interview (if Nike is not paying for the airtime), and would even make the extra effort of blurring out the Nike logo in the background. But believe me ABS-CBN and GMA, you are not advertising Megamall and/or BPI by telling us they got robbed or that a kid was abducted in their premises.
Last time I checked, the people had the RIGHT TO INFORMATION. And a whole lot of journalists are willing to literally die for that. But as far as GMA and ABS-CBN managements are concerned, MONEY outweighs everything.
Ok fine, just don't shovel us the crap about journalistic integrity when you can't even fucking say Megamall anymore.
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Caveat : I am not sure whether that is really Megamall or BPI, since the news just said "mall" and "bank". Which is exactly my point.
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To protect the big companies (major sponsors)---that's what it is.
ReplyDeleteIn 2020, headline news will be like:
Sometime today something happened somewhere to someone.
LOL @ Bing!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your 100th post :D
Pero bakit pag yung news about Kris Aquino, no details spared?
I remember the movies when they show people drinking beer or softdrinks in cafeterias or restaurants. They always put paper napkins around the labels to hide them, except if the product actively paid for the movie. Compare with the cheesy advertising nowadays on TV and cinema, with the product themselves becoming plot devices.
ReplyDeleteThere was a time when I was little bothered that Tanduay and Winston was sponsoring RPN-9's news updates. But between that and this, that seems a little more palatable. What gives GMA and ABS-CBN? You would not even spare senators, even the president, from unfounded innuendos. But potential sponsors? You can not even mention them in a STATEMENT OF FACT. So much for JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY. The SM's and BPI's has got you by the short and curlies.
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