Ang daming moving parts ng kwento. Ang consistent lang ang balakang ni claudine.
— killer b (@kikiberkiber) May 7, 2012
As a blogger/reporter/natural-born chismosa, I never leave home with a camera.
I’m always on the lookout for a story or scoop. But even though I take a lot of pictures, not all of them are for publishing. Some of them are just for me or my memory.
I may have video-ed a woman making a scene outside the bank or a severely burned beggar in the Chatuchak weekened market in Bagkok, just because I had never seen anything like it.
Whenever I do this, Jeroen would get nervous and tell me to stop, lest I get into trouble.
As a reporter, this is probably what happened to reporter Ramon Tulfo, who was taking a picture of actress Claudine Barretto while she was dressing down a ground staff at NAIA Terminal 3.
While it was natural for him to take a picture of a “scene”, it is also natural for Claudine’s husband, Raymart Santiago, to let out his inner “action star”, causing this brawl inside the airport.
Whom do I think was wrong? Claudine may have had a point but was wrong to make a scene in this day and age of camera phones.
Tulfo just acted like a reporter and Raymart like an offended husband. Raymart Santiago is trained in self-defense. I would not mess with him.
Does the brawl merit the front page of the newspaper? I don’t think so.
As an outsider I don’t think it should get bigger than this. It is easier to just say sorry and move on.
What’s your take on this?
Originally published at Chuvaness.com. You can comment here or there.