A reader, Wizard Oz, sent this email to me (unedited): Are we really have to point someone to blame? The organizers of the wowowee are trying their best to settle everyone. The tragedy happened. It is obvious that no one wants the incident. The better way is to act with charity to the victims. Indeed, [...]

How cunning! When ABS-CBN CEO Gaby Lopez went on air to comment on the report of the DILG fact-finding committee, he effectively turned the tables on the committee chair, Usec Marius Corpus, and made him look like the villain. Lopez centered on Corpus’ comments about ABS-CBN treating the Wowowee spectators like “animals.” Lopez said he [...]

ABS-CBN CEO Gaby Lopez, in a taped message aired on his sanctimonious network, expressed outrage over the opinion of the DILG fact-finding committee that ABS-CBN treated the Wowowee spectators as animals. You’re outraged, Mr. Lopez? How do you think the families of the dead feel? As a citizen of the Republic of the Philippines, I [...]

The latest news is that ABS-CBN will conduct its own investigation of last Saturday’s Wowowee stampede. I wonder … to look for answers or a scapegoat? Share and Enjoy:

Some sectors are blaming the Wowowee stampede on poverty. What can be more ridiculous? The blame for that anniversary fiasco falls squarely on ABS-CBN. While CEO Gaby Lopez went on air to state that ABS-CBN was fully responsible, I can’t help but see duplicity in that manipulative TV network. For one thing, their incompetent AVP [...]