TV Reporters Scavenging YouTube Scraps
You know YouTube is killing dumb TV networks when incompetent TV reporters hover like vultures waiting for scraps at YouTube interviews. That’s what reporters from Philippine TV networks GMA and ABC are doing, ambushing interviewees at The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s YouTube channel.
Here they are lying in wait for Filipino politician Mike Defensor. Having helped a young Filipina celebrity with her Web strategy after the dotcom boom, I remember when online video interviews played a distant fourth fiddle to TV, radio, and print interviews. Seeing the tide turn here gives me a certain vengeful satisfaction.
I hope the Inquirer can keep these vermin out of their building. The last thing this country needs is old media scavengers pulling down new media pioneers.
Tags: ABC5, GMA, Inquirer, Mike-Defensor, Philippines, TV, Video, YouTube
March 6, 2007 | Filed Under Philippines, VideoComments
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[...] an excerpt from Mike’s blog post “TV Reporters Scavenging YouTube Scraps“: I hope the Inquirer can keep these vermin out of their building. The last thing this [...]
thanks mike
scavengers indeed 
An incredible amount of vermin and venom marks the tortured telling of this story.
First cardinal rule in journalism — for all of us who wish or claim to own the franchise — get our story right! Second cardinal rule — get all sides to the story!
Mr Alarilla and Mr Abundo, seems to me like you’d have a tough time getting by Newswriting 101.
Here it is, an account even the inquirere.net reporters and JV Rufino, inquirer.net editor in chief, could confirm:
1. Mike Defensor had earlier agreed to do an interview with Ruth re the businessmen’s proposal for a debate between GO and TU candidates.This agreement was clinched about 230 p.m., March 5. Mike told her hat first, he must go to your podcast schedule.
2. Mike arrived at the inquirer.net office past 3 pm. His aide advised Ruth to just wait out at the inquirer.net office. Ruth and her crew did, outside the inquirer.net office building.
Mike proceeded to the 9th floor office of inquirer.net for the podcast. Ruth and her crew waited at the ground-floor reception lobby.
Inquirer.net reporter Lira Dalangin spoke with Ruth on the mobile; Lira informed Ruth Mike’s car was parked on the 6th floor, and that Lira would just advise her when the podcast is over.
Ruth asked Lira if she could wait on the 9th. Lira said, “huwag na, nandito ‘yung suplado namin editor,” apparently referring to you, Joey. Ruth waited with her crew outside the inquirer.net building for 30 minutes.
3. As the podcast was winding down, Lira texted Ruth it was okay to go up the 9th floor already. Ruth and her crew did.
It took a while, however — about 20 minutes more — before Mike came out. While at the 9th floor lobby, JV and other inquirer.net reporters so kindly entertained and chatted with Ruth and her crew. Jayvee even offered them snacks but Ruth and her crew politely declined.
4. A while later, Mike came out. The inquirer.net staffers had their photos taken with him. It was at this point that you, Joey, came out, tugging a small camera.
You started taking video and was supposedly mumbling, accoding to those within hearing distance: “I’m gonna take this video para you can’t come back anymore.”
You were mumbling to yourself, even as your editor in chief and the inquirer.net staffers didn’t think there was an issue at all.
5. After the picture-taking session with the inquirer.net staffers, Mike joined Ruth and her crew out of the inquirer.net office. Ruth interviewed Mike OUTSIDE the inquirer.net office, AFTER the inquirer.net podcast.
Where is the “invasion” and the “scavenging” there? You must really expand your prose to be a more precise writer, I sincerely believe.
There are sidelights to this story:
1. As Ruth was boarding the elevator with Mike, Lira even offered Ruth apologies for your behavior. Lira said that it is JV, in fact, who is in charge as editor in chief. Lira also moved a text message to Ruth later, saying that the inquirer.net staffers didn’t think that your behavior was in order.
2. During the podcast, it was Mike who asked JV if it was possible to let Ruth and her crew to come in. JV said he’d rather have an exclusive interview. That, Mike respected.
3. The ABC 5 crew was already at the inquirer.net office building when Ruth arrived. The two TV teams arrived separately. You don’t lump things unrelated in such cavalier fashion!
So what “scavenging” or “invasion” are we talking about here? And who is the “vermin” here?
Fact is, Ruth and her crew waited patiently, diligently, outside the inquirer.net office. Fact is, she did her interview with Mike after the inquirer.net forum, waiting for source, in all patience and diligence.
It seems impossible for any single media entity, whether old or new, with minute or mamoth egos, to claim a franchise over news sources.
And finally, who or what makes a “journalist” indeed? Is it media platform? You invoke “code of ethics” and professional standards. You seem to have read enough to know that, again, the profession is most jealous, truly most zealous, about a few non-negotiable rules: get the story right, get all sides to a story.
You might have failed in both. I’m sorry you did. Whether old or new, journalism should make people believe journalists are, more than ego, people who mean well. Yes, new media should hold steadfastly on to the old standards of accuracy and fairness in journalism. Some things never change.
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gee, i’ll just leave a link hehe since the trackback seems to be taking forever
http://www.inquirerbloggers.net/atplay/2007/03/08/
my-reply-to-gmanewstv-editor-in-chief-malou-mangahas/
Vetting the vocabulary your vehement, vociferous, violent, vitriolic vocalizations vilifying unverified violations of venerable virtues reveals a veritable virtuoso viewership of V for Vendetta.
Alas, your TV vagabonds’ less-than-valiant invasive scavenging visits virtually evade valuable, vital, valid vindication.
[...] Inquirer.net editor Joey Alarilla lays the smackdown on GMANews.tv editor-in-chief Malou Mangahas for her TV dogs’ conspiring to scavenge around his podcast interviews (Yeah, I know. Offline media surviving off scraps from online media. Fun times.). [...]
Sorry about that, Joey. Akismet filter.
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pangit talaga shows ng gma walang maipalabas. pati si pacquiao gagawan ng show. sa noontime shows naman walng kwenta eat bulaga. dapat na sila mamahinga. yung studio nila kapanget. saka walang mga babaeng sumasayaw tulad sa wowowee… meron pala kaya lang ang papanget chipipay mga itsura hehehe.tapos sa eat bulaga daming host. yung building ng GMA kasya sa loob ng building ng ABS CBN wahehehheh
si mike enqiques lang gusto ko sa gma pag umuuubo wahehehhe… anniversary nila 20 years of bringing rip offf yahoooo! damn proud loosers! Si malou mangahas ang DUGYOT ng itsura sa TV. kahit anong ayos nya parang ang baho wahehhehehe yahooo!
Hoy G Lopez hindot ka. Yung kulangot mo nakikita ko ngayon diyan sa computer mo. Anong dugyot, sinong dugyot? Hayup ka aalisin ko yang tulok mo eh.
At ikaw naman Mike Abundo ka ang mga “journalists” sa New Media gaya ng blog mo eh hinde tunay na journalist. Tulok mo, eh kung journalist ka talaga eh di nagtratrabaho ka sana sa mga malalaking dyaryo sa States. Tanga!
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