Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Top Gear Philippines Receives Anonymously Sent Revealing Photos of Suspects in Enzo Pastor Case

Link to the article: http://www.topgear.com.ph/news/racing-news/mystery-source-sends-us-revealing-pics-of-suspects-in-enzo-pastor-case?ref=cxsearch

Last week, I chanced upon an article published in the website of auto magazine Top Gear Philippines about the Enzo Pastor case. They allegedly received revealing photos of two suspects in the murder case of the famous racer. They have revealed such information but chose to not publish the said photos since the 'source' did not send them the 'actual' files of the images. They avoided to try the suspects through the media and minimized harm by trying to 'validate' the images from the anonymous source, who, as of posting, has not replied to their query.

Even though they are an auto magazine, Top Gear PH exercised due diligence by refusing to publish the photos and initiate a trial by publicity and tarnishing reputations of people who are still deemed as suspects.

Tuesday, 2 September 2014

ABS-CBN's Noli de Castro slammed anew by BS Aquino

I read on an article in GMA News Online portal (http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/376930/news/nation/pnoy-takes-swipe-at-noli-de-castro-in-ex-vp-s-turf) that President Benigno Aquino III criticized former Vice President Noli de Castro anew in a speech he delivered in the latter's home province of Oriental Mindoro, for his barrage of criticisms in his weekday morning radio program of the BS Aquino administration.

De Castro's recent political stint continues to haunt him up to this day, four years after he got out of office. His political stint is his major blockade from being a credible news anchor and commentator. He has direct conflict of interest with this current administration and even the succeeding administrations. Hence, he should not be engaged in news anchoring and commentary. He could still be in the broadcast industry, but hosting shows that are news-feature/magazine type, in order to prevent, or even just lessen, the conflict of interest he is parading to everyone. And even if how many years pass, his conflict of interest as a former top official of the land will never be erased from our history.

And lastly, I would like to credit ABS-CBN News for being fair and unbiased by reporting in its primetime newscast TV Patrol, which de Castro anchors, the said incident in Oriental Mindoro. I think it was reporter Jorge Carino who delivered the story. However, the news report did not indicate that de Castro is one of the network's anchors and the same report is not published in their online news portal, abs-cbnnews.com.