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Friday, October 05, 2007
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Buti Naman: Nagalit Ako Dun
'Desperate Housewives' apology over Philippines slur
Makers of the hit US television series 'Desperate Housewives' have apologized for a slur against Filipino medical workers that caused uproar here.
The apology was sent to Philippine broadcaster ABS-CBN's bureau in the United States and aired here Thursday by its cable news channel, ANC, following protests by the Manila government.
"The producers of the show and ABC studios offer our sincere apology for any offence caused by the brief reference in the season premier," ANC quoted the statement as saying.
"There was no intent to disparage the integrity of any aspect of the medical community in the Philippines," it said.
The apology was made a day after President Gloria Arroyo's office said it considered a portion of the dialogue in an episode aired last weekend as a "racial slur."
The episode showed actress Teri Hatcher, who plays Susan Mayer, asking during a medical consultation to check "those diplomas because I want to make sure that they're not from some med school in the Philippines."
An online petition calling on the ABC to issue an apology quickly spread through the large Filipino expatriate community in the US, many of them in the medical profession.
In Manila, Arroyo's chief aide, Eduardo Ermita said: "On the face, we can look at it as a racial slur. We are looked down upon too much, considering the number of our medical professionals in the US," Ermita said.
ABC said it remained committed to present "sensitive and respectful images of all communities" featured in its programs.
The nerve of these people. It's a good thing they apologized.
Nats said we shouldn't make too big a deal. Maybe if the comment affected only a few persons (like the comment made on 30 Rock about Tina Fey dressing up "like the President of the Philippines") then maybe people can let it go. But the slur was directed at an entire medical institution, encompassing generations and generations of medical students, doctors, and educators. While indeed there are hack medical schools in the Philippines that I wished never existed, nobody anywhere has any right to generalize that the entire medical education institution in the Philippines is a hack.
Yeah yeah, you might say I'm taking it personally because I'm from UP from which many doctors migrate to the US for their internship, residency, fellowship or full practice... HELL YEAH! That's precisely why I'm offended! Wouldn't any one in the same position be?
People study and work themselves to the bone over here striving for excellence in their field.
Know-it-alls who just want to be funny shouldn't be allowed to get away with it at the expense of our hard-earned reputation. These bloody writers think they can do anything for the sake of fall ratings. Well they bloody can't.
Makers of the hit US television series 'Desperate Housewives' have apologized for a slur against Filipino medical workers that caused uproar here.
The apology was sent to Philippine broadcaster ABS-CBN's bureau in the United States and aired here Thursday by its cable news channel, ANC, following protests by the Manila government.
"The producers of the show and ABC studios offer our sincere apology for any offence caused by the brief reference in the season premier," ANC quoted the statement as saying.
"There was no intent to disparage the integrity of any aspect of the medical community in the Philippines," it said.
The apology was made a day after President Gloria Arroyo's office said it considered a portion of the dialogue in an episode aired last weekend as a "racial slur."
The episode showed actress Teri Hatcher, who plays Susan Mayer, asking during a medical consultation to check "those diplomas because I want to make sure that they're not from some med school in the Philippines."
An online petition calling on the ABC to issue an apology quickly spread through the large Filipino expatriate community in the US, many of them in the medical profession.
In Manila, Arroyo's chief aide, Eduardo Ermita said: "On the face, we can look at it as a racial slur. We are looked down upon too much, considering the number of our medical professionals in the US," Ermita said.
ABC said it remained committed to present "sensitive and respectful images of all communities" featured in its programs.
The nerve of these people. It's a good thing they apologized.
Nats said we shouldn't make too big a deal. Maybe if the comment affected only a few persons (like the comment made on 30 Rock about Tina Fey dressing up "like the President of the Philippines") then maybe people can let it go. But the slur was directed at an entire medical institution, encompassing generations and generations of medical students, doctors, and educators. While indeed there are hack medical schools in the Philippines that I wished never existed, nobody anywhere has any right to generalize that the entire medical education institution in the Philippines is a hack.
Yeah yeah, you might say I'm taking it personally because I'm from UP from which many doctors migrate to the US for their internship, residency, fellowship or full practice... HELL YEAH! That's precisely why I'm offended! Wouldn't any one in the same position be?
People study and work themselves to the bone over here striving for excellence in their field.
Know-it-alls who just want to be funny shouldn't be allowed to get away with it at the expense of our hard-earned reputation. These bloody writers think they can do anything for the sake of fall ratings. Well they bloody can't.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
House is Back!!
He is SOOOO back!!!
And I am super annoyed because I can't see the show... YET. Damn third world. I still have to wait for bootleg copies over at MCS for me to get my fill.
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