Yet Another TV Appearance: And Oh, I Need Your Help!!!

August has been one crazy month. Prior to this month, all my appearances on TV have been due to coincidence - the camera panning during a PBA game, having a camera crew covering a debate event I was in etc. This month, I’ve been invited to deliberately appear on shows not once, not twice, not thrice… but four times! But then again, I’m sure you’ve taped them all and I’m still waiting for you (all 24,992 of you), to upload it to Youtube.

August is not yet over and neither is my string of TV appearances. *fingers crossed*

I’ve been invited to be at the ABS-CBN studios this Thursday to talk about the Malu Fernandez issue. Why? Well, for one, I asked Ederic Eder of Tinig.com-fame to start a writing project. Ederic, being the nice and obedient person that he is decided to honor my request and formalize the commencement of a writing project about the now-controversial journalist. Due to the obvious conflict of interest - one look at Ederic’s personal blog will expose you to tons of hearty material - THE Ederic cannot guest on Media In Focus. Hopefully, Nick of Tingog.com can make it. To be fair to Nick, he has been an outspoken and passionate pundit for this issue and he has every right to be in a show that aims to discuss the crooks of the matter.

 I also need to find an OFW who will be willing to show up on TV. Given that criteria, make that former OFW. It would help if he’s/she’s a blogger as well. Haha, good luck to me!

Here are some notes that I have in my head:

• Mainstream media (well, at least the ABS-CBN News Network) is now paying attention to what bloggers have to say. Hopefully, this would enlighten other media outfits that the opinions in the blog community is also as valid as those found in newspapers and magazines. I think this bodes well as far as the objectives of the Blog and Soul Movement is concerned. For those who want to make blogging a prevalent and relevant facet of Philippine media, I think we should embrace every chance to get the word out with open arms. Lets all be TV-appearance whores and take one (or two) for the team.
• I will try to speak for myself. I will not speak for other people in this interview. I’ll bring cue cards to remind me of those things. You never know, I might slip and spin stuff like any debater would. Haha. I’m also trying to anticipate the questions that I will probably be asked… Hmmm…
• I don’t know the schedule yet! The taping will be on Thursday afternoon, but I don’t know when it will be shown.

Viewed 2611 times by 1181 viewers