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Korina, ’di na makakabalik sa ABS-CBN?     
by Vinia Vivar


Sa bihirang pagkakataon ay humarap sa entertainment press ang head ng News and Current Affairs ng ABS-CBN na si Maria Ressa kasama ang kanyang mga news anchors sa TV Patrol at Bandila sa isang presscon na ginanap last Monday.

Ang nasabing presscon ay para sa malaking pagbabago sa naturang dalawang news programs ng network na nagsimula kagabi, Wednesday kasabay ng pagpapalit ng ating administrasyon.

Aside from Ressa, naroroon sina Julius Babao, Karen Davila, Alex Santos, Henry Omaga-Diaz, Bernadette Sembrano, supervising producer Cheryl Favila and Director, Multi-Platform Strategy, Program Development and Customer Satisfaction na si Anna Rodriguez.

Hindi nakarating si Ted Failon dahil may family emergency raw ito at si Ces Drillon na kasalukuyang may istoryang kino-cover.

Sa nasabing presscon ay napakaraming katanungan ang nasagot at mga isyung nabigyan ng linaw. Isa na rito ay ang tanong ng bayan na kung babalik pa ba si Korina Sanchez ngayong tapos na ang eleksyon.

"A good rule of thumb for us is exactly what happens in government when you run for office. You campaign, and you either don't get the office or you resign in the process. There's a one-year rule. I think it's a good rule for us to take on because in the campaign, while Korina herself did not run for office, she also campaigned. It will be hard to think that she will be able to say reports on Vice President Binay. So a one-year break and we'll assess again,” paliwanag ni Ms. Ressa.Natanong din kung totoo ba ang tsismis na babalik na rin si Kabayang Noli de Castro at say ng lady executive, "Let me put it this way. I'm very,
very happy with the anchors that we have. They work very hard to give you the news. So at this point in time, I don't see our news anchors changing.”

Isa sa mahalagang nabigyan ng linaw ng News and Current Affairs team ay ang akusasyong Aquino station ang ABS-CBN at biased daw sa pagre-report during the campaign.

“We are not an Aquino station, at least, the news,” paglilinaw ni Ms. Ressa. "People have said we're biased, and I always answer back, 'Bias is in the eyes of the beholder.' An independent monitoring group, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, analyzed all of the news programs of GMA-7 and ABS-CBN during elections and they came out with a study that showed that ABS-CBN had no bias in their coverage.

“I don’t think the way we report the news will change in the administration. We are in many instances, harder than any of our competition, because, we, even internally, we really try to push aside vested interests. Our goal is to serve the Filipino people the best way possible and that means telling them the way it is even if it’s hurtful to us.”

Napag-usapan din ang reklamo ni Willie Revillame na biased ang news department pati na rin ang komento minsan ni Kris na ang mga taga-news ay evil people dahil na rin sa ipinakita nila ang footages ni Baby James na nagsasalita ng “Villar”.

“Willie Revillame was campaigning for a candidate, perhaps they weren’t happy with the way we were reporting on it. Our goal is not to make them happy, our goal is to tell the truth. So on that day, we ran Willie saying that we are biased, that same report, we also ran Kris saying that we’re evil people,” pahayag pa ng lady executive na bahagyang natawa sa huling sinabi.

Tungkol naman sa isyung may malaking utang na loob daw ang may-ari ng ABS-CBN (Lopez’) sa mga Aquino, ani Ms. Ressa, "Look at our reports, look at our reporters. We're not the ones,  we have no utang na loob. Ako as a reporter, as a journalist, I have no utang na loob to anyone except the people I write reports for.”

Samantala, kagabi ay nagsimula na ang malaking pagbabago sa TV Patrol sa tulong ng makabagong augmented reality at touch screen technologies na unang ginamit sa matagumpay na Halalan 2010 election coverage noong Mayo 10.

Sa Bandila naman, malaking pagbabago rin ang ihahatid ng late night newscast kasama ang anchors na sina Henry Omaga Diaz at Ces Orena Drilon. Mas malalim na pagbusisi ang hatid ng programa sa mga paksa tulad ng consumerism na iuulat ni Alvin Elchico at malalim na talakayan tungkol sa pulitika na ihahatid ni Lynda Jumilla.


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