We’ve kept from discussing the controversy over Korina’s absence from her regular shows mainly because we don’t want to get stressed over pointless intriga or intrigue.
While poring over social media status updates, we were quite amazed by all the unkind and uncouth remarks made about Korina. It’s as if these people can’t think of anything positive and constructive to do.
With the way they’ve carried on, it’s as if they’re all some kind of authority on journalism or ethics. Puh-leeeez…
Thing is, Korina’s absence from he shows happened just around the time that she mildly quipped her disagreement with CNN Eye-Candy Journo Anderson Cooper, the rumor mills have been soooooo busy coming up with all sorts of reasons why Korina wasn’t being seen on air.
Some say she resigned, some say she was fired, and others say she was suspended… Ridiculous, really.
If you really think about it, why would Korina be suspended over airing her opinion as a radio commentator? Radio commentary is all about opinions and she gave hers, so she was doing HER job. Moreover, as we gather, she had just talked with DSWD Secretary Dinky Soliman as well as sources in the military who informed her about they were doing in Samar, Leyte, and other provinces hit by Super Typhoon Yolanda.
That was the FULL context in which she had said that perhaps “Anderson Cooper didn’t know what he was talking about.” Thing is, Cooper made it a point to say in his report that he wasn’t aware or hadn’t seen government on the ground at the Tacloban City Airport, which is journalistic shorthand for “I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENING.”
Anyway, we came across a Youtube video of Korina talking about what she’s doing while she’s off-air. We found out that unlike some news anchors and news personalities, she actually took a leave of absence to personally help in the relief operations for the victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda. In our book, that trumps all the opinion making that other anchors and news personalities mistakenly think to be ACTUALLY HELPING PEOPLE.
Sometimes it’s good to just shut up and roll up one’s sleeve and hunker down to REAL RELIEF WORK.
Here is Korina Sanchez’ official statement (per her conversation with Jasmin Romero via phone-patch):
“Kasi Jasmine, maraming espekulasyon kung bakit ako nawala sa studio last week, at ang spekulasyon tungkol sa akin ay wala namang katotohanan. Yung mga espekulasyon, hindi naman totoo ‘yan. Matagal ng naka-schedule ang Rated K na iikot sa ibat-ibang nasalanta ng delubyo. Alam mo ‘yan, dahil noong tayo’y nag-usap minsan ay papunta naman ako ng Ormoc noon Ang aking team ay nanggaling na sa Eastern Visayas, Western Visayas and then Bohol. Ako at ang aking crew ay pupunta sana ng Tacloban pero pinigilan kami na ipagpatuloy ang pagbyahe. Ito ay trabaho lamang, pinigilan kami ng kumpanya umalis kasi delikado daw, so na divert kami sa Ormoc, dalawang araw kami dun. Pagkatapos nun pumunta naman ang aking team sa Zamboanga and is now on its way to Capiz, Iloilo and Palawan. Ako naman pupunta pa ng Mindoro para mamigay ng tents sa mga biktima at bago po matapos ang aking pahayag na ito ninanais ko po sanang tigilan na ang spekulasyon sa akin na wala namang kabuluhan. Tatapusin ko lang ito for airing namin sa darating na Sunday at babalik ako diyan. Uulitin ko lang po, matagal nang nakaplano itong paglilibot na ito wag lang sanang pilit kinokonekta sa ibang bagay, ha? Pahingi na lang ng donasyon …”Translation:
“Jasmine, there have been a lot of speculations about why I was absent from the studio last week and the speculations about why I was off-air are absolutely untrue. The speculations are not true. Rated K has been scheduled for some time now to go around the different areas that were hit by the deluge. You know that, because we talked about my trip to Ormoc. My team went to Eastern Visayas, Western Visayas, and then Bohol. My crew and I were about to go to Tacloban but we were prevented from continuing on that trip. This is just work, we were told by management to leave because it was dangerous for us, so we were diverted to Ormoc and we stayed there for two days. After that we went to Capiz, Iloilo and Palawan. I went to Mindoro to give away tents for the victims and before I end my statement, I’d like to request people to stop with their useless speculation. I’ll just wrap up my visits and we’ll air our episode this coming Sunday. I’ll repeat, we’ve long been scheduled to take a leave off air to go around the devastated areas but people are trying hard to connect this absence of mine to other issues. It would be better if you just gave donations.”
That’s telling ‘em Korina!
Source: http://welovekorina.com
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