THE WORD WAR HEATS UP
was saved from writing the story today since it turns out we were already three or four from the same organization. since i'm from a different section who's not primarily assigned to cover the whole circus from day 1, i told my colleague i would step back and i'll just be there as back-up and i'll just be vying for another angle/story. anyway, i stayed on and listened to the presentation:
they did not directly say it but that's the meat of the whole presscon. they do not answer the questions directly but in their roundabout way, yes, they're contradicting whatever PNP said the past few days. and yes, somehow they said they're urging the authorities not to discount possibilities, including the bombing angle.
of course, they said it in a not-so-direct-way-but-still-not-subtle manner.
there had been people from the media industry and business sector who gave their few cents' worth on what ALI has been doing: it's bad crisis management. someone said that the company should just refrain from saying anything, especially coming out with statements like these, before the official report is released.
another said the company would not benefit from being perceived as being "too defensive".
can't remember who told me this but i guess it was an older colleague who covered the cebu pacific cagayan de oro crash: lance gokongwei earned the respect of others because he went there and got down on his knees and got dirty and labored to get his company through the ordeal and accepted the fate that befell the company. and to think he was just the newly installed CEO at that time.
i don't remember if cebu pacific was this defensive as ALI because i was still in school then and i wasn't paying much attention to that event at that time. i don't know what my colleague was driving at. maybe 1) the fact that the zobels are not that coming down from their high perch to touch us mortal citizens; or 2) cebu pacific was better at crisis management.
i'm not saying that ALI was remiss in their response to the victims. i'm just put off by this constant word war. problema ang dami ding nagsasalita, from UP to the mamang magtataho sa tabi na feeling gil grissom.
ok enough. i've said too much.
Ayala experts contradict PNP findings in Glorietta 2 blast
they did not directly say it but that's the meat of the whole presscon. they do not answer the questions directly but in their roundabout way, yes, they're contradicting whatever PNP said the past few days. and yes, somehow they said they're urging the authorities not to discount possibilities, including the bombing angle.
jimmy ayala and his powerpoint presentation
of course, they said it in a not-so-direct-way-but-still-not-subtle manner.
there had been people from the media industry and business sector who gave their few cents' worth on what ALI has been doing: it's bad crisis management. someone said that the company should just refrain from saying anything, especially coming out with statements like these, before the official report is released.
another said the company would not benefit from being perceived as being "too defensive".
can't remember who told me this but i guess it was an older colleague who covered the cebu pacific cagayan de oro crash: lance gokongwei earned the respect of others because he went there and got down on his knees and got dirty and labored to get his company through the ordeal and accepted the fate that befell the company. and to think he was just the newly installed CEO at that time.
i don't remember if cebu pacific was this defensive as ALI because i was still in school then and i wasn't paying much attention to that event at that time. i don't know what my colleague was driving at. maybe 1) the fact that the zobels are not that coming down from their high perch to touch us mortal citizens; or 2) cebu pacific was better at crisis management.
i'm not saying that ALI was remiss in their response to the victims. i'm just put off by this constant word war. problema ang dami ding nagsasalita, from UP to the mamang magtataho sa tabi na feeling gil grissom.
ok enough. i've said too much.
