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Shalani shines in primetime battle

Published by Ellen on November 9, 2010

Which early evening show did you watch last Monday?

A demure presence in a hyper show
Although there’s GMA-7’s “24 Oras”, the question refers to last Monday night’s battle royale between ABS-CBN’s TV Patrol and ABC-5’s Willing Willie.

Last Monday’s episode of TV Patrol marked the returned of Noli de Castro and Korina Sanchez-Roxas to the prime time news cast. Over at TV-5, it was the debut of Valenzuela councilor Shalani Soledad as co-host of Willie Revillame.

TV Patrol features an ex-vice president, an ex-congressman and wife of an ex-senator. Last Monday’s contest was also dubbed as the battle between ex-future first ladies. If you have no idea why “ex-future first ladies”, I suggest you click to goggle.

TV 5 claimed according to Nielsen, the firm that tracks TV viewership, Willing Willie trounced TV patrol with 11.6 percent share of the audience tying with GMA-7 24 Oras. TV Patrol got 10.7% of early evening audience.

That’s believable because I asked five of my friends what they watched last Monday and all of them answered: Shalani.

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Ted Failon’s multiple tragedy

Published by Ellen on April 19, 2009

I pray that nobody, especially lesser mortals like me, will go through the multiple tragedy that happened to Ted Failon, one of the country’s top broadcasters.

It was tragic enough that a suicide has happened to the Failon family. It was double tragedy that a number of them became suspects and worse, they became victims of police arrogance and cruelty.

Many who witnessed the policemen’s rough treatment of Max Arteche and Pamela Arteche-Trincheta, siblings of Trina, Ted’s wife, who passed away Thursday, as well as that of their driver and household help lament that if that can happen in a case involving a broadcast celebrity under the glaring lights of live TV, how much more to ordinary citizens.

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Shocked

Published by Ellen on April 18, 2009

Pinapahalagaan ko ang serbisyo ng mga pulis sa ating bayan. At alam kong maraming maayos na mga pulis kahit na alam ko din na marami ang hindi matino, na hindi naman pambihira sa lahat na organisasyon.

Alam ko rin na ang kasalukuyang liderato ng Philippine National Police sa ilalim ni PNP Chief Jesus Verzosa, ay sumisikap na maiba ang hindi magandang paningin ng publiko sa mga pulis. Nagustuhan ko ang programa ni dating PNP Chief Avelino Razon na “Mamang Pulis” na naglalapit ng pulis sa mamamayan.

Ngunit ang pinaggagawa g Quezon City Police kay Ted Failon ng ABS-CBN, lalo na sa kanyang mga kamag-anak ng kanyang yumaong asawa si Trina at at kanilang mga kasambahay, ay talagang shocking. Mabuti lang nandoon ang crew ng ABS-CBN at nakita ng bung Pilipinas ang ilegal at brutal na pag-arestado sa kanila.

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Suicide

Published by Ellen on April 18, 2009

Inquirer Editorial

After watching the way the police have been handling the investigation of the death of Trinidad Arteche Etong, ABS-CBN news anchor Ted Failon’s wife, Filipinos have reason to be afraid — very afraid — of their so-called protectors.

From the time the Quezon City police began working on the case, it was clear they wanted to pin down Failon in a murder charge.

With little to go on but a fertile imagination, Superintendent Frank Mabanag, chief of the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, theorized that Etong could have been killed in their Pajero and brought up to the bathroom where Failon claimed to have found her lying in a pool of blood.

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