Weak leadership EDITORIAL 08/26/2010

Weak leadership

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 08/26/2010 Broadcast media were highly irresponsible in their live coverage of the hostage crisis, which left at least eight Hong Kong tourists dead. The police and their SWAT (Special Weapon and Tactics) team bungled the hostage rescue operations, and for them to find excuses for botching the rescue, is unacceptable. It was also inexcusable for Noynoy Aquino and all other officials who should have moved to act in the matter of the crisis — and it was a crisis — to make themselves inaccessible all throughout the hostage crisis. Having said all that, even as the broadcast media are being pilloried for irresponsibly covering the hostage taking situation live, despite the knowledge that the hostage taker had full access to the television coverage, why in heaven’s name did not the government act decisively not only to cut media access to the scene but also to cut off the media broadcasts? Of course media will cry censorship, but lives would have been saved, and the country would not be suffering from the embarrassment suffered today, before the world.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100826com1.html

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