the evening buzz, with kris and korina

Because I was sort of sick and had no other choice but stay at home and watch the evening news, I bring you the most important news in the country. Which of course, had something to do with Kris Aquino.

TV Patrol set up shop at the Aquino residence at Times Street. What can I say. Astig si Korina ha. Channel 2 turned the early evening news broadcast into a hybrid of the morning talk show and Sunday afternoon's chismis factory. If there's one thing you can count on the Pinoy, it's to stop everything and listen to the showbiz chismis. Hay.

So after the news roundup which consisted of a failed bank holdup, the results of the current survey from the Population Institute that a significant percentage of today's youth are okay with premarital sex and same-sex relations, and the President's public approval ratings dipping some time before she leaves for the UN meeting in New York and President Bush's visit to the Philippines, Korina Sanchez had a one on one with her fellow morning girl. (and oh, Julius Babao was there nga pala at the studio to report some of the, er, little news bulletins)

So here's the deal, as everyone knows them already:

Kris says Joey threatened her after she told him she's had enough and was leaving her for good. She can't remember what sort of gun it was, except that it was a big gun, silvery and the nozzle looked just so huge from her vantage point.

That Mayor Joey allegedly got jealous of Vic Sotto, that Kris was talking with him still, which Kris denied.

Kris apologized to Alma Moreno for getting in the picture when there was still a chance for the Mayor and Ms Moreno to get back together.

That she contacted a sexually transmitted disease from him, that he threatened to expose that to the public, saying "What man is going to love you after they find that out ei?" or words in that effect.

I think the interview lasted almost half an hour, and even Ms Aquino herself noted near the end that maybe at that point, viewers were already "questioning your [Korina Sanchez's] journalistic integrity." I have got to say that it was one of the most riveting news broadcasts I've seen in a while. It both amazes me that this will land the top news item for the week, and we are only too willing to sit back and watch this unfold.

I was texting some of the Team Angas people while watching this unfold, and our guy on the street says: "Ang masasabi ko lang, tanga si joey marquez. Tinutok yung baril, d naman pinaputok. Otherwise, iboboto ko na siya sa Senado."

This whole Kris Aquino thing alternately fascinates and revulses me. She slipped and fell off a stage it was a national issue. She got pregnant out of wedlock, it's broadcast all the way to Europe. Her breast augmentation was a national issue. Her breakup is a national issue. If she weren't the daughter of a national hero and the ex president, will she merit even the side bar of the metro news? I don't think so.

Yes, yes, I really have nothing much to do these days. So sue me.