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Guys, here's another issue about KORINA AND MARIA RESSA...as published in INQUIRER....ANY comment on this????
Ok na sana kasi si KORINA dahil nakabalik na sa BANDILA PERO HWAG NAMAN NILA (TRES MARIAS) PAGBABARILIN CAREER NI KORINA!
we well support KORINA ALL THE WAY!!!! MABUHAY PO SI KORINA..YOU'RE THE BEST OF ALL NEWS ANCHORS IN ABS CBN (NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS)...
COCKTALES
The Korina Show(down)
By Victor Agustin
Inquirer
Last updated 05:17pm (Mla time) 10/19/2006
Published on Page B3 of the October 18, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
THINGS are much worse between Korina Sanchez and ABS-CBN Broadcasting news chief Maria Ressa than reported here Friday.
But an ABS-CBN official, who asked not to be identified, immediately disputed the "professional animosity" angle that had been leaked to Cocktales.
"Let us just say there are always apprehensions whenever changes are introduced," the official said.
According to the grapevine, a show-cause memo was actually issued to the popular newscaster/talk-show host by Ressa's office and that Korina has until this Wednesday to submit her answer.
Adherence to certain editorial guidelines, part of the sweeping changes introduced by Ressa since she came on board in January 2005, is being tipped as the cause of the latest tempest to hit the newsroom of the country's biggest broadcast network.
A former CNN correspondent, Ressa is chief of the "Tres Marias," the editorial nickname for the triumvirate of all-female, foreign-trained news executives that had been brought in by ABS-CBN CEO Eugenio Lopez III to bring the network's journalism up to Western standards.
The first sweep of such changes last year caused the resignation of more than 30 news and current affairs staffers; the latest move is apparently designed to ensure that the network's news stars toe the same line as that of the rank-and-file's.
According to the grapevine, Korina is taking Ressa's memo so seriously that she has even sought outside legal advice -- Korina's stable of lawyers in the past included ACCRA, the law firm that publisher/columnist Maximo Soliven also sends an SOS to for his own entanglements -- to help prepare her reply.
Still, the official ABS-CBN line is that the latest editorial flare-up would be, and is now being, amicably resolved.
"I am happy to note that, after intensive consultations among the concerned parties, we are now seeing the light at the end of the tunnel," the ABS-CBN official said.
SOURCE:
http://business.inq7.net/money/columns/vie...rticle_id=27238COCKTALES
The Korina Show(down) II
By Victor Agustin
Inquirer
Last updated 00:04am (Mla time) 10/25/2006
Published on Page B5 of the October 25, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
TOP news anchor Korina Sanchez has apparently survived the latest skirmish with the so-called Tres Marias of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. who had issued her a show-cause memorandum that could have led to her suspension or dismissal.
According to the grapevine, Sanchez has agreed to apologize to Maria Ressa, the ABS-CBN news and public affairs chief, for having disclosed to a tabloid the "chemistry" problems between her and Ressa.
But, more than the personality issues, Sanchez has also agreed to drop promotional and marketing work for special marketing events, in view of the more stringent editorial guidelines imposed since Ressa, a former CNN bureau chief, and two other foreign-trained female executives took over the network's news department last year.
In the past, ABS-CBN, and its rival GMA Network Inc., not only allowed news anchors and reporters to accept paid emceeing jobs but also to appear as endorsers of commercial products.
Such leeway, allowed by the networks in tacit acknowledgment of the industry's rather modest pay scale, often led to news shows airing thinly disguised advertorials.
Among the first victims of the Ressa policy was reportedly Cito Beltran, who decided to drop his noontime talk show rather than give up the emceeing and product-endorsement circuit.
A born-again Christian, Beltran now also writes introspective pieces for another newspaper.
Sanchez, for her part, decided that her long-term future was with ABS-CBN, and even sought legal advice from litigator Sal Panelo as soon as she received the worrisome memo.
[Editor's note: GMA Network Inc. is a parent company of INQ7.net.] Garcias still at it
SOURCE:
http://business.inq7.net/money/columns/vie...rticle_id=28516ABS-CBN gags itself
By Vic Agustin
Inquirer
Last updated 06:03am (Mla time) 10/27/2006
Published on Page B4 of the October 27, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
BOTH ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. and Korina Sanchez had very much wanted to rectify the Cocktales’ Monday report that the top news anchor had agreed to apologize to ABS-CBN news and current affairs chief Maria Ressa.
The intended message was supposed to have been something along this line: No apology is forthcoming or even contemplated because there is nothing to apologize for.
But the ABS-CBN statement was never issued, because the issuance would apparently violate the network’s own policy prohibiting staffers, officials and even board members from disclosing or even confirming details of such delicate items such as ongoing management-personnel discussion.
In short, ABS-CBN has adopted a gag rule, and has elected to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous leakers and mischievous columnists.
Except for that apology angle, we are happy to note that the two previous columns on Korina and the “Tres Marias” and, more important than the personalities involved, on how the network’s editorial parameters are being challenged and refreshed -- given the demands of the times -- have generally been on the ball.
SOURCE:
http://business.inq7.net/money/columns/vie...rticle_id=29025