Quote Originally Posted by ClaNker View Post
****** Ina yan si Cooper pa rape ko yan sa mga sunog baga dito sa lugar ko eh. Journalist na naging disaster relief expert, buti pa local media natin bumabatikos pero gumagawa ng paraan para maka tulong.
Mareng Winnie's comment for Anderson Cooper.

Blame game | Inquirer Opinion

Anderson Cooper came on Day 5. He probably didn’t know that the airport reopened on Day 4, and was aghast at conditions there. He said things like “the scene here at the airport is desperate,” “I have not seen a large Philippine military presence out around here,” “Philippine military personnel are cleaning up the area around the airport … first time we’re seeing this,” “people line up and they are here all day for a handful of flights.” People should understand that his analysis of Philippine relief efforts were based on one location only: Tacloban airport. He did walk around, but was constrained by the fact that there were NO VEHICLES available for use, so his analysis was severely limited.
She also made comment similar dun sa sinabi ko the other day about misleading way the media were doing their articles. Ayaw nya lang sabihin kasi kasama nya sa trabaho kaya sabi na lang niya "by the time it got out to us".

Take the United Nations emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos. Her analysis of the situation was absolutely balanced, but by the time it got out to us, she was made to look critical of the Philippine government. No one paid attention to the reasons she gave for the difficulty of distributing relief goods: lack of air assets (not including the Tacloban airport, which was destroyed and took three days to reopen), shortage of vehicles for waste management (so debris and roadblocks could be cleared), lack of coordination by local officials (understandable, she says, because they were affected by the storm, too). I cannot see how the government is answerable for that.