A big, sarcastic: Oh great!
I feel like I need to reiterate.
I can’t believe why our newscast seems to want to skew so far into the fluff area of news.
By now, everyone who’s not been under a rock have already heard of the Virginia Tech massacre. This is what makes it really baffling that, instead of devoting huge amount of time reporting this larger-than-life tragedy, 24 Oras spent only approximately two minutes broadcasting it in an apathetic "in-a-nutshell" manner. There isn’t even a conscious effort to ask audiences to send prayers to those who died, or to encourage that we send our condolences to the families of those who has passed away. This is a kind of tragedy that sends horror to Virgina denizens, and what do we supplant it with? Why, a 30-minute-hogging "exclusive interview with Manny Pacquiao" lead by a sports event that occured two days ago! As though this is really important! As though this should be really important! Heck, more attention have actually been paid to a lesbian-kissing scandal or that Richard Gere hugging Sheree "intrigue". Yeah, don’t you just love it when the media shove this kind of news down everyone’s collective throats? Let’s see if people’s reaction to these trivia will feed the hungry from Africa or the terrified from Virginia.
But since I actually bothered to sit through all those crap, I’m going to make a few comments about Pacman’s exclusive interview.
Pacman, you really need to step back before spouting all those nonsense you just did. What makes you think that boxing is harder than being a congressman? How much do you know about lawmaking (I think none) that would make you qualified enough for such an unequivocal (and unequivocally asinine) claim? And you can’t be serious about thinking that you can box and govern a province at the same time. How are you going to train for your upcoming matches while you fend off poverties and economical crises? What are you going to do, uppercut unemployment? Be a crimefighter and treat magnanakaw (Tagalog for thief) as your punching bag?
Also, is it just me, or is the three way conversation between the reporter, Pacquiao and congresswoman Darlene Custodio (whose name Pac could hardly remember) the phoniest and the most insincere conversation to ever grace the TV? Had Pacman not been a world-famous boxer, let’s see if the De La Salle University graduate would hang around with Pacman on a karinderia (canteen) near that kanto (corner) of a General Santos barangay, or see if she would ask him out to a bar in Malate. I would have found the conversation much believable had Pacman tried to challenge her to a boxing match.
Awesome.
