How Dare You Anderson Cooper!
by: Erwin L. Sison
Recently a certain Anderson Cooper who made
some remarks through CNN regarding the way the Philippine Government is
handling the situation in Tacloban City.
He was quoted as saying, “It's a miserable, miserable situation here. It is
not getting better day-by-day. We're now entering the fifth day since the storm
hit here in Tacloban ... You would expect maybe a feeding center that has been
set up five days after the storm. We haven't seen that, certainly not in this
area."
“As to who's in
charge of the Philippine side of the whole operation, that is not really clear.
I'm just surprised that on this day 5, maybe I've gotten here late, that things
would be well in hand. It does not seem like that,” Cooper
continued.
He even compared the
situation to Japan during the tsunami in 2011, “When I was in Japan, right after the
tsunami there two years ago, within a day or two, you had Japanese defense
forces going out, carving up cities into grids and going out on foot looking
for people, walking through the wreckage. We have not seen that here in any
kind of large-scale operation,” Cooper
said.
My take? I am offended as a Filipino.
How
dare you Anderson Cooper to belittle
the Filipino resolve. It might be true that there is no BIG military presence on
the same spot that you are standing on but you should be sensible enough to know
that the disaster covers a very very large area spanning from Eastern Samar, Tacloban,
Masbate, Cebu, Palawan, Davao all the way to Negros Occidental. That is almost
half of the country and these places are separate islands across the
archipelago.
How
dare you Anderson Cooper to
speak as if you are an expert in handling natural disasters telling the whole
world what Filipino Government should have done in this situation. YOU’RE NOT
AN EXPERT Mr. Cooper you’re just a spectator making a living out of these
disasters! I watch basketball almost everyday does it make me an EXPERT? Does
it mean I can be the head coach on the Miami Heat? Your remarks are downright absurd
and irresponsible.
How dare
you Anderson Cooper comparing us
with the way the Japanese handled the situation in Japan during the 2011 tsunami.
That is totally a different condition, geographically speaking, in Japan the
areas heavily affected were the shorelines and rescuers can still move from the
northeast side of the country towards southwest, unlike in our situation where
the whole island is affected. In times like these mobility is one of the key
factors and we simply don’t have that in this particular state (I am not an expert).
You should know that right?
How
dare you Anderson Cooper
forgetting to compare our condition to your home country when Hurricane Katrina
struck America and there was widespread violence, looting, rape, hunger and
killings because the US Government DID NOT RESPOND properly and on time. You
were there, have you forgotten about that? Isn’t that the closest comparison to
our situation instead of the tsunami?
And finally, how dare you Anderson Cooper being a veteran journalist barking out
all these nonsense on international TV disregarding the effect of your
irresponsible reporting (barks) to the entire Philippine nation who is reeling
from the effects of the strongest typhoon ever recorded in the history of
mankind. It was like rubbing salt to a wound.
Note: Anderson Cooper is an American journalist
labeled as “emo-anchor”. In my
opinion the label is very close to “an
Actor”.
