There were a few people less than thrilled with Anderon Cooper’s very honest and very eye-opening report about the relief operations in Tacloban. His report for AC360 had accompanying tweets highlighting appropriate sound bites like “there’s no real evidence of organized recovery or relief.”
ABS CBN top news anchor Korina Sanchez came across these and took to radio to air her thoughts. Though she went through this via a blind-item, everybody knew who she was refering to. Of course it has now ballooned into a story. Even the international media has picked up the story.
On this morning’s edition of AC360, we learned that DILG Secretary Mar Roxas, Ms. Sanchez’ husband, swung by the CNN’s HQ at Tacloban late last night, upset about the aforementioned tweets. “I didn’t tweet those,” Cooper was quick to clarify this morning. “Somebody from the show tweeted those. What I said was, that I haven’t seen any large-scale government presence, have you?” he asks his CNN colleague Paula Hancock, who was the one who got to talk with the DILG Secretary last night. Hancock shook her head and agreed with Cooper.
He then said a few things everybody was only too relieved to hear: That there have been significant improvements in the distribution of relief efforts.
