Today was quite a busy day at work (or should I say yesterday). It was the first time I experience a "breaking news". And it was the first time I actually felt I was working for a news organization.
When news broke out of the bombing in Makati, I was eating lunch at the ELJ Building in ABS-CBN. When I arrived at the Newsroom, people were moving everywhere. All of the producers, news anchors, writers were all drawn to their cellphones, computer and the TV screens surrounding the Newsroom. Everyone was focused on the explosion that rocked Glorietta 2. I was assigned to transcribe some of the phone interviews, including an interview with a victim. I actually felt sad based on the victim's story. From 4 dead in the first hour, it reach 8 when I left the office. Honestly, it was quite estatic to feel the pulse of news, but I do hope things like this don't happen.
It was a different feeling to be part of a news team. It also saddens me that I might get used to this and thus, I might feel manhid when disasters occur in the future. But I guess that is just part of a news person's life.
I hope the death toll just stays at 8.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
news man
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