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VENI, VIDI, VICI ...
TINA PANGANIBAN-PEREZ 89-d DILIMAN
 A Chinese proverb goes
that no matter how the wind howls, the mountains will never bow down before
it. Such, doesn't hold true when it comes to GMA7's Saksi reporter Tina
Panganiban Perez (89-D Diliman).
To quote Inquirer's Newsbreak report "Fraternity connections and
journalists":
[She] scooped reporters from the other networks when she interviewed Senator
Gregorio Honasan, who had become "inaccessible" after the government accused
him of being a "coup conspirator" in [the] Oakwood [mutiny].
Why did she get the special treatment of meeting the senator face to face
even before the state of rebellion was lifted, or a day after, as she
claims? Perez (BA Communication 1991) is a member of the UP sorority Sigma
Alpha Nu, which is the sorority of Honasan’s Alpha Sigma. President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo accused her of "abetting rebellion," and the incident
sparked a debate on censorship and whether the government spies on
reporters."
Tina in her quest for truth maximized her network and toed the line of
national insecurity. Unfortunately, power's might was no match for truth's
light. Behind Tina, senators Aquilino Pimentel, Vicente Sotto III and Teresa
Aquino-Oreta rallied for press freedom.
With the news & current team of GMA7
The president's scolding made the legislators' tongue wagging: "Unpresidential
and uncalled for" says Piemntel.
Tito Sen goes: "So it's very clear that they are trying to sow fear among
media." The omen of Ninoy's sister: "the Arroyo administration [is getting]
even closer to a "garrison state" that the late Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr.
warned the nation about in a 1968 speech."
Thus ending the chapter of "the media during the Middle Ages". President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo trooped down to the GMA7 network station to make
clarifications on the "berating" and surveillance incident of August 15,
2003 at the Microtel Inn and Suites in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro.
Tina's dinner date with the president dwelled on
"was-referring-to-a-different-story-reported-by-Perez-when-she-mentioned-"abetting
rebellion,", a hug and good mood. Tina will forever be marked in media
history as the reporter who came, who saw and conquered. The only one
smothered by no less than the president herself.
Who is the sis behind the reporter? Tina Cassandra de Guia Panganiban-Perez
89-D, the Diliman roster of sisters reads. Tina volunteered herself to the
sorority. As Tina recalls: "I heard [Atty.] Jamea Garcia [Diliman sis], our high school
valedictorian at the UP-IS (university of the Philippines Integrated
School), joined the sorority. I told her and another sis, who was our batchmate, that i wanted to join the sorority. i grabbed the chance to join
a sorority of intellects and beauties before the opportunity passes me by."
She claims that the influence of the sorority on her is "big! i use t-r-j
[Truth, Reason and Justice] to guide me in my work as a reporter."
To our resident sisters she imparts, "keep the sorority's principles and
goals in mind even after you have left the university. you apply it in your
life everyday."
Truth, Reason and Justice. Lofty prionciples the sorority may uphold but if
one strives to attain it, it is not to evade you.
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◦profile written by Mike Portes 88-A manila
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