-ryandgreat, manila
the blog post of tv patrowl reporter anjo bagaoisan, did summarize the behind-the-scenes and struggles of the event on 13th august 2014!
he had a better recollection of that whole incident,
he was field producer of abs-cbn then, but there are some things that the blog didn't share
as i look back at the events exactly 5 years ago! and my take on social media as a dynamic tool! for dissemination of information!
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August 13, 2014 . 4PM | the first picture that surfaced the internet |
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August 13, 2014 | Inquirer Dot Net |
August 13, 2014 . 11AM | at TV5 Newsroom with news staff Mae and Frenzy |
it was a slow news day! that means a peaceful and quiet day in the entire nation!
i spent the whole 8 hour duty, goofing around with newsdesk prens prenly and mae! at tv5 newsroom in mandaluyong!
i was on stand-by field producer that will only be sent out if in any case a news breaking story arise!
after lunch time, the newsdesk and the executive producers have done their story conference for the primetime newscast!
i left the newsroom by 2 in the afternoon and it's also safe for me to call it a day!
took the mrt from boni station, we had stopped-over at buendia station for a long period of time that's for more than 15 minutes
i was rushing to get to baclaran by 4PM and therefore i decided to take a bus ride from thereon
it was already 3 in the afternoon and fortunately there was no traffic in sight! halleluja!!
and then suddenly, i saw a this particular train going to southbound on a notably high speed!
passing through magallanes railways with opened doors! and i knew that something could go wrong!
as the bus and the train, all at the same time, approached taft avenue corner edsa,
the train kept on moving fast and passed the platform and ran off the train station! literally!
i could not believe on what i saw! and i hurriedly went out my way and i stumbled in to it because i felt that the train might explode!
passengers were in panic mode! some were jumping off the station just to get out of the train!
my daily grind at work put me on the forefront of any news events! but boy!
this was something very unusual for me because i was exactly there when that happened!
and i've gone beyond the call of duty for this! because i knew that this event could bring so much of danger for the general public!
the very least i can do, as any media practitioner would do, is to disseminate information,
i first called our news desk to ask for any news crew somewhere nearby that could go there and cover the news!
and then i took some videos and pictures! that's my job!
and while i was trying to send it to our opis! my phone battery went drained!
so i had to look for any establishment where i could charge my phone, i went to 711 but their charging station isn't working
i went to the nearby hardware store and asked the owner if i could charge my cellphone for few minutes and if i can also make a call to through landline
while i was trying at least my best effort to send the videos so that we'll be the first one to break the story with video support!
that was an exclusive video! no other videos of that has surfaced on the world wide web
August 13, 2014 | at McDonalds Pioneer for our quick lunch! |
August 13, 2014 | exclusive video of the MRT situation that first aired on TV5 |
August 13, 2014 | exclusive video of the MRT situation that first aired on TV5 |
August 13, 2014 | exclusive video of the MRT situation that first aired on TV5 |
August 13, 2014 | exclusive video of the MRT situation that first aired on TV5 |
August 13, 2014 | exclusive video of the MRT situation that first aired on TV5 |
August 13, 2014 | ENG van at EDSA with Bryan and Kuya Kenneth |
August 13, 2014 | preps for the live newscast! |
August 13, 2014 | live interview with DOTC secretary Jun Abaya |
August 13, 2014 | DOTC secretary Jun Abaya live interview on Aksyon Primetime |
fellow journalists from different news organizations started to link up on that twitter post, only to find out that i work for another news organization!
today as i write this piece, i realized how powerful social media has become!
a tool that's the fundamental of technology we have today! and where everything now truly been transformed!
these tools are efficient to reach a wider audience and to deliver a message on-time!
and it enable social media users to engage and participate and spread the news! that paved way for public's high level of awareness!
and yes, it makes a world of difference today!
and these tools has also taken the news gathering introspective!
and social media has shrunk to a certain point that anyone now can practically become a journalist!
they call it citizen journalism!
now, you have everyone else to deliver the news! in a way that simply has never before been possible!
we've probably transformed to this social media revolution! that it introduces new style of informing people well aside from it's fast form
news reporting on the other hand, is easy!
and the basic principle is to establish the
4w's! (who, what, where, when)
and 1h's! (how)
it's as easy as that!
but that does not mean that whatever we see on-line are true and correct!
today, we are living through a time of fake news!
these are unverified news reports that are being published!
a piece of advice from fellow media practitioners that today, our work still matters! because accuracy matters!
and only those that are trained and with background in journalism can take on that!
after all, it's the main responsibility of any journalists!
to fact check! and get all sides of the story!
because reporters spend most of their time in investigating their story!
but then again, fake news immensely sells!
for the simple reason that posts on the internet could reach a fraction of audience
that normally engage! and put on heated debates on the side!
and contents on social media are generally do not have filters! that's why fake news can purport to be real!
and if you do not have enough wisdom to discern the fake from the real otherwise your judgment could be in trouble!