Original facebook post from Jun Abines at https://www.facebook.com/jun.abines.9/posts/10222790333006318
WHEN A FAKE JOURNALIST MEETS THE REAL ONE
Maria Ressa of Rappler was ecstatic to get an online interview with a BBC guy named Stephen Sackur. She expected in the interview to be praised, pitied and hailed as a new martyr journalist in the world. She looked like little girl crying for help to a big brother. Only to be slapped on her face for telling lies in 24 minute interview.
For me, all mainstream media and its joirnalists are but puppets of international oligarchs. This includes Maria Ressa of Rappler. But this BBC guy named Stephen Sackur suprised me in the most pleasant way. He is among those very few who still can see what is true and what is not. What is right and what is wrong. He put Ressa on a hot seat and taught her Journalism 101: Get the facts, understand the facts and narrate the facts! No more, no less.
The interview started with Ressa's facial expression showing a poor little girl getting bullied by Philippine President Duterte. She was ready to narrate her "story" on how she valliantly and heroically fought the "tyrant" all in the name of "truth" and "democracy". And that freedom of expression is dead in the Philippines.
The First Slap!
Stephen Sackur listened like a sympathetic big brother. Until he heard something not right. He stopped Ressa on her narratives. He told her straight that it is not true freedom of expression is dead on the Philippines because there are still plenty of media companies operatng in the Philippines and even Rappler continues to publish online to this day!
Ressa took the slap well. She bobbed and weaved and she survived. But her facial expression showed her confidence being shaken. Her real smile slightly getting sour. She was given the chance to continue and instantly back to narrating her "pitiful" story.
Second Slap!
Stephen Sackur of BBC continued to listen to Maria Ressa's narrative like a big brother. Loving yet tough, soft but fair. Ressa wasted no time to paint Rodrigo Duterte as an evil man who killed thousands of poor Filipino using the BBC flatform. Duterte is evil. Duterte is heartless. Duterte is a monster.
