ABS-CBN news programs and the torture video
By Sasha on Aug 20, 2010 in Community issues, Entertainment
I am really starting to get annoyed with ABS-CBN news programs need for sensationalism. They are going overboard on their “exclusives”! I understand that it’s their way of attracting viewers aside from providing “information”. But I do think it’s overkill most of the time!
There’s the torture video that they kept on showing again and again. Half of TV Patrol‘s newscast for the past two days was dedicated to showing the torture scene. And what is that torture scene, you might ask (esp. to those who are non-Filipinos)? It is of a man being tortured by the police. He was an alleged snatcher caught and in the process of interrogating the man, making him confess, he was stripped naked and his genitals was tied with a string and being pulled again and again by a policeman! It was allegedly done by Sr. Inspector Joselito Binayug who was already suspended pending investigation of the case. The Commission on Human Rights already stepped in and is conducting investigations of their own.
I know, I KNOW, that injustices like these need to be shown to the masses for awareness and for it to be squashed. But in my opinion, ABS-CBN should not show the clip of the torture scene again and again. There are kids watching the news with their parents! I am a grown woman and I cringed the first time I saw the video. I stopped watching after the first pull. Kids should not see that video. But TV Patrol showed the video a number of times within their news program!
I don’t know but have you noticed how ABS-CBN news programs have gone the route of tabloid journalism already? Watch even one TV Patrol ep and you will see what I’m talking about now.
And please, enough of the torture video please!
I am an accountant, a CPA. I'd been working for 10 years as a corporate rat when I decided to quit. I am now working at home as a consultant and full time blogger.
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