In the recent unscheduled televised speech by President Gloria Arroyo, Jove Francisco among other reporters were made purview of the behind the scenes outburst because of delays in making that speech yesterday. In the footage that has been shown in most news shows, President Arroyo’s state of irritation is plainly obvious, in what was to be an important speech to acknowledge the conflicts in Mindanao.

In Jove Francisco’s recent blog post, he recounts the event, along with videos. As well as Jove’s “point of view” on covering the televised speech regarding The MILF attacks as well as the President’s outburst itself.

TV5 Coverage

According to Jove,

And I must say, our decision to use the footage of the angry president is justifiable, because it is news. Debatable? No. As a story it has in fact lots of layers in it. An unpopular and less than trustworthy president, waging a battle for her political survival, who by the way got sick before the weekend, was incognito during most of last week, was hit by criticisms regarding charter change and was shaken by the twin “pambabara” or non support from the leadership of the El Shaddai group and the Catholic church on her aim to amend the constitution. Plus the fact that she’s not feeling well until now, because as PDI reported, she visited 32 hospitals before being active again.

Lastly, we are not being arrogant and we are not saying we have all the right to cover everything and anything under the sun, but what happened inside the halls of the NEB, happened right before our eyes and we can’t just close our eyes and pretend it didn’t happen.

Because it did.

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