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Instead he went on with his press conference, but at 8:47 he was interrupted in mid-sentence as the government-run television station, Channel 4, suddenly went off the air. When it reappeared three hours later, the newscaster jubilantly declared, "This is the first free broadcast of Channel 4 . . . The people have taken over." Beside him was Colonel Mariano Santiago, who until last year had been the Marcos-appointed chairman of the country's Board of Transportation. To many Filipinos, the seizure of Channel 4 was one of the most remarkable events of an endlessly astonishing week...
...Koppel's colleagues, meanwhile, were in the difficult position of explaining just what they were doing in their distant locales. Brokaw observed awkwardly that his Tuesday program emanated from Washington, "a city that had a major role in those astonishing developments in the Philippines." Opening his Monday broadcast, Rather drew a strained analogy between Manila, where "an embattled President Marcos struggles to hang on," and the U.S. farm belt, where "embattled farmers struggle to hang on" to their land...
Many critics complain that putting anchors in the middle of the story is simply an exercise in promotion. Says Andrew Stern, who teaches broadcast journalism at the University of California, Berkeley: "There's nothing that Dan Rather or Tom Brokaw can add to the Manila story that the guys covering the Far East can't." Network executives disagree. "The purpose of sending an anchor is in large part to say this is an important story," says ABC's Wald. The anchors, too, claim their presence can enhance a story. "You've got three activist anchormen," says Brokaw. "We all come...
...journalists have been required to have police escorts in turbulent townships. Despite the restraints, reporters have managed at times to slip undetected into restricted areas. But when racial violence erupted last week in Alexandra, a black township near Johannesburg, the police and army clamped down on both print and broadcast journalists with new ferocity...
...weight of the Roman Catholic Church against Marcos, lost no time backing the renegade military leaders. "Our two good friends have shown their idealism," Sin told listeners over Radio Veritas. "I would be very happy if you could support them now." The station, owned and operated by the church, broadcast the names of prominent Marcos officials who, emboldened by Ramos and Enrile, announced their resignations. Among them: Postmaster General Rogelio Golez and General Ramon Farolan, the Philippine Customs Commissioner. "I don't think the government can function," said one high-ranking Marcos aide. "It's a very tenuous situation...