After the love-fest, answers

Written on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 at 2:54 pm | by Rom

Ces is back! She’s safe! Whee!

Now, after the love-fest, answers.

  • Who kidnapped her?
  • Can she identify them from mugshots and such?
  • Did she know where she was held?
  • What can she remember about the place where she was held? Any geographic landmarks?
  • How many people held her?
  • How were they armed? How were they provisioned? Who was feeding her captors?
  • Did they have a political agenda?
  • Why did she refuse the escorts?
  • Was she ever in any real danger?
  • Was this an abduction in quest of an exclusive?
  • Is there a book or movie deal in any of this? If so, who’s gonna play her (LOL!)

Of course, I’m not saying she should be debriefed today. Tomorrow will be soon enough. Or even the day after that. The point is, just because she’s back and unharmed, doesn’t make her off-limits like fragile porcelain. She can play that angle, of course, but I hope she saves it for all the Oprah-esque talkshows, interviews, and magazines that will inevitably mob her.

But for the sake of the rest of us not terribly interested in that saccharine pap, i hope she does get debriefed in deadly earnest. It’s wonderful that she got out of that unscathed, but that experience should at least be mined for lessons. And you don’t get lessons when you handle her with kid gloves.

Or will journalists once again exercise the much vaunted ‘freedom of the press’ to suppress the information they think we don’t need to have (or the information their former captors don’t wish us to have)?

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9 Responses to “After the love-fest, answers”

  1. Nick on June 18th, 2008 3:16 pm

    will we get real answers? Already there’s the “truth” of “livelihood projects”.. I wonder what she will say about that..

  2. Ding G. Gagelonia on June 18th, 2008 3:34 pm

    There certainly is a long list of questions now being put on Ces Drilon’s plate. The government of the day, likewise should now tell us, how long it will allow the malefactors and malcontents ‘black suede’ this country? By the way, the last time I looked, it’s the only the only one we have.

  3. the jester-in-exile on June 18th, 2008 4:05 pm

    i still want answers on the media embargo issue.

  4. benign0 on June 18th, 2008 5:21 pm

    i still want answers on the media embargo issue

    It depends how quickly The Media, our bishops, and our politicians will come up with the next round of news barrages, scoops, and exclusives, the next Jun Lozada, or the next celebrity mishap that will divert the proverbial bobbing-in-the-waves collective mind of Pinoys from what is REALLY important… ;)

  5. Rom on June 18th, 2008 6:10 pm

    benign0: true that.

    jester: me too. but i don’t think ces will have the answer to that. maria ressa does

  6. the jester-in-exile on June 18th, 2008 6:17 pm

    @rom: ressa, and the rest of the corps at large, will have the answers, yes.

  7. Nick on June 18th, 2008 6:51 pm

    But they’ve already issued their Editorial as to the embargo at PDI.

    ABS-CBN already issued that first statement regarding the kidnapping, as well as the embargo..

    I don’t think upper management will truly answer anymore, but I bet you, they’ll make shows about it, invite guests on it, make a brouhaha over it, and well… make money over this specific topic.

    Such is the way, may not be right, but I think this will be the ultimate result. Answers, only by press releases. Not real dialogue..

  8. Press releases: the scraps thrown to the peasants | Filipino Voices on June 18th, 2008 7:33 pm

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  9. The Jester-in-Exile on June 21st, 2008 2:09 pm

    conclusion: no answers will be forthcoming re the media embargo. valid statement?

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