Boom! Headline!

News, a piece of information that happened in a specified date and time. TV, a medium to deliver information and entertainment. TV and news, a match made in heaven if you want to get stories on everything, from a local spectacle to sports results.

It got motion and audio, something you cannot get from a newspaper. Sometimes we can actually see a breaking news in real-time, complete with lots of running and screaming in fear when gun sounds echoes around the news. What possibly go wrong with this scenario?

Raging Reporters
Majority of TV reporters today rely on over sensationalize all of things They tend to speak in angryesque way, complemented with super serious expression as if someone really rubbed that guy in a bad way. It is like they are having a roid rage without steroids and experiencing sugar rush without the sugar. The voice, the goddamn voice, is ear-piercing and you want to give elbow drop to your TV set.

Grrr, we have a a huge oil rollback (snort)

Sometimes, I think those reporters experience daily heart attacks when they speak on the mic. I remember hearing on radio, reporting positive things but if you listen to his voice, you will probably thinking you are listening to a pissed off Incredible Hulk. Other reporters love to speak in deep voice which sound like a butch tomboy who tries to speak like a man.

A TV reporter is a professional work.You must speak clearly, concise and just right in terms of volume delivery, even if your network's market is essentially jejemons and D-Z classes.

Asking stupid questions
There are times I want to magically appear on TV set, behind the reporter who just asked a stupid question and hit him with a baseball bat repeatedly.

How's your day? fiery happy?

I don't why they keep on asking questions with obvious answers for the longest time. If you asked someone who just has his house burned down to the ground the question, how do you feel? what do you think will be his response?

If there is a foreign celebrity who hit the country probably for a concert and when they have a press conference, they will ask the visiting celebrity with cliché Philippines narcissistic questions (especially such celebrity is 1% Filipino) like what do you think of our world-class food? do you like our jeepneys? can you say MAHAL KO KAYO (I love you all) in your funny accent while? instead of asking right questions like hows your stay, how are you and are you excited for the concert.

Saying really stupid stuff
There are reporters and journalists who are just plain stupid. This pack of idiots say things that are inappropriate, unnecessary and full of crap. They like being involved with the news than reporting it to the people. Like the bus hostage crisis last year, a reporter actually say on national TV on where are the real positions of the snipers, wherein the hostage taker has a TV inside the bus and listening on every god damn detail poured by the reporters. Maybe the situation will be not in a bloody mess if the reporter did not say the positions in the first place and the outcome maybe different.

I can't control my fetish of being part of the news

There was another one wherein the reporter starts reporting the effectiveness of speed limit implementation over at the killer highway called Commonwealth via the use of a radar gun. Everything was all good when the reporter starts asking what are the cons of the radar gun, and the MMDA guy spilled all the limits of the radar gun while fast and furious wannabe drivers starts digesting the secrets, probably high-fiving with other lunatic drivers and try to abuse the radar gun's weaknesses.

Excessive Self branding
A reporter's job is just share the news to the world, not brag to the whole world that you are a journalist filled with integrity and all those sparkling crap.

Aside from reporting, I also invented world peace

We get you want to impart your "goodness" to the world through responsible journalism but the only way to meet responsible journalism is responsibly report the news and not have your opinions or rant involve, we don't care, we just want the news.

Reporting unnecessary and very uninteresting news
Sadly, there are more of those kind of news than real legit news. Stories like a dancing cat or an old man with a jumping fetish, they will broadcast it to the world, accompanied with stupid banter. This kind of news usually prevails in showbiz industry, with news like "actress gained 4 pounds, she is now a fat person" and "actor and another actor, seen together on someones birthday" good TV, isn't it?

He gained 1 pound! WE GOT THE EXCLUSIVE NEWS

It's like they are having orgasm when they hear something from their favorite actor or actress, and I thought showbiz new circle around  TV, movie and other related projects than the private lives of the performers.

Sensationalize everything, especially the bad news
A very bad Filipino trait, an insane obsession to sensationalize everything. I don't know whats the news  gathering group's fetish of collecting more bad news than the positive ones. They get the news, then we got the reporters with countless awards and trophies that makes Ultimo Dragon's championship collection like nothing, smiles on the camera and subtly screaming at you with the news.

His championship collection is worth sensationalizing

They even have over-edited video package for some news, complete with intense zoom in and zoom out effects, with a score that sounds like the end of the world is coming, yet the news is all about a scandal of some sort.

The masses love those kind of stuff, throwing sensationalized news to their faces and probably clapping in delight at the same time. And don't get me started with showbiz news, goddamn, I can write a whole article from it. I can't blame the country since we are one of the most gossip addicts nation in the world, well that is a good World record, lets call Guinness, the company, not the guy.