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Inq7 Breakup: GMA’s Fault
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.). The last few paragraphs convey a veiled threat to keep her dogs at bay.
So, yes, it’s all been about civility.
It’s the same civility that has prevented us from pointing out that you set up GMANews.tv some eight months ago when your network had an existing agreement that INQ7.net was the news site of both the Philippine Daily Inquirer and GMA Network.
It’s the same civility that has prevented us from telling the whole truth about INQ7.net, while you go around playing the good cop, taking the “high road†and telling bloggers that it’s all a misunderstanding.
I wonder, is it easier to take the high road when you’re the one who’s at fault, and to remain silent when the truth would hurt your organization if it comes out?
Yes, we all know a lot of things, and we’ve been civil despite everything that has been happening behind the scenes.
But don’t mistake civility for approval, or expect it to last forever.
First they try to stab an online partner in the back, then they try to scavenge off its table scraps. What a sad little TV network.
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.
