Palace to meetmedia on crisis coverage rules
By Aytch S. de la Cruz
08/29/2010
The Palace will start a series of dialogs with news organizations next week to put up parameters on media coverage as a result of the recent hostage-taking at Rizal Park that took the lives of at least eight Chinese tourists where sensational reporting, especially among those in the broadcast media were being blamed for the situation turning for the worst.
Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning (PCDSP) Secretary Ricky Carandang said he is scheduled to meet with broadcast media executives and share some of the government’s insight with hopes to correct the lapses made by both sides that he said “were deemed contributory to the tragic end of the 11-hour hostage incident at Quirino Grandstand last Monday.”
Crisis management analysts said that, at some point, the sensational and blow-by-blow media account of the hostage taking incident hampered the authorities’ negotiation efforts with the perpetrator, former police Senior Insp. Rolando Mendoza.
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100829hed4.html
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