The job of a reporter is to gather and write about the news as it happens. Not unless, you are an entertainment reporter.
However, Marlon Ramos of the Philippine Daily Inquirer thinks otherwise.
A video circulating on social media recently shows Ramos trying to pin down Francis Kong, a renowned inspirational speaker and businessman by asking a tricky question about Duterte.
But the businessman and motivational speaker proved to be a wily dude and navigated away from the land mines set up by the PDI reporter.
Below is the transcript of the short conversation between the two protagonists.
Ramos: Sir you were talking about values gab, leadership gabs, skills gab, the need for having soft skills, so, do you have any answer or advice to our President?
Mr. Francis Kong: The one advantage I see him having right now is sense of authenticity image that the young perceives him to be. Like whatever he promised he is doing it and that’s (can’t figure out what he exactly uttered in the last part of the sentence.)
Marlon Ramos of the PDI quickly went for the kill after setting up the trap question…
He (Duterte) promised to end our problem with illegal drugs within the 6 months of his presidency and now he is saying he’ll be doing it until 2022/at the end of his office.
Mr. Kong: I am a person who understands business. You don’t get result by means of an event. To get good results, you need a processes. And that’s why process takes time. But at least the one thing that I’ve been hearing a lot of young people saying, “We were never been informed and we did not even know how huge, how big, and how wide that then scope of that problem [illegal drugs] up until now.” So if you’re a business person with a business mindset, identifying the problem is already 50% of the solutuon. So I would rather still say that we got to be patient and wait for more results and a lot of things will be challenged in the process.
Video below.
MARLON RAMOS OF THE INQUIRER ASKS MALICIOUS QUESTIONS TO HUMILIATE PDU30 TO HIS GUEST, MR. KONG….
AND MISERABLY FAILED!
#MarlonRamos
Posted by John Paul R. Bicerra on Sunday, June 11, 2017
By trying to embarrass the President, Marlon Ramos earned the ire of the Duterte supporters.
Treb Sisracon wrote: “Ano marlon ramos nphiya ka wag k kasing magaling dahil kyong mga inq ay mga salot npksimple ng sagot syo sana nmn tumalab yan sa pgkatao mo ugok na marlon ramos.”
Prescilla Antipuesto commented: “K Ohhh noooo Mr Ramos napahiya ka ngayon.! Ano nganga ka! Punyeata sobra yabang mo wala ka naman pala ibubuga!”
Note: The incident happened in Malacanang sometime in February 2017 but the video has been re-uploaded on social media and has created backlash against the PDI reporter.
Your thoughts, please!
simple lang naman… kung ordinary citizen ka man, kahit nasa media ka… ma a appreciate mo mga efforts ni duterte…. kaso marlon ramos and the likes of him are not ordinary citizen… they make money out of what they are doing against duterte…
I am with you, mo eye make them EVIL,, RAMOS IS 100% WITH THIER CRAZY PRESIDENT PINOY AQUINO ,, THE BIGGEST CORRUPTIONS ADMINISTRATIONS EVER IN THE PHILIPPINES, he made himself blind, about PRESIDENT RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE are doing ,, saving the country and the poor victims of Drugs ,, WAKE LIBERAL PARTY
Accept your good times are gone, dead , so do your party ,, the YELLOWTARDS are / were night mares for everyone ,, discipline and respect needed for all you,, ,, HYPOCRITES,,
This just reveals how shallow some if not most of our mainstream media men are. They need to review their core values to enable to bring out the best in themselves and
thereby contribute to nation building.
love the finger at 1:39
hahaha it a simple way to say, don’t f&ck with me Marlon hahaha
Sa basketball bago magsimula ang laro ng kahit sinong koponan, anu ang pre-game mindset and attitude dapat? Syempre Positive dapat, “Mananalo kami ngayon, sisiw kalaban!” Kaso bilog ang BOLA, panalo ang mas nakapaghanda at nakapagexecute ng mabuti. Masasabi din ba natin na binigo tayo ng koponan na nagsabi na mananalo sila???
Burn!!!! puro yabang palibhasa byaran pdi pa dpat komiks nlang gnagawa nyu d mkta ang ngagawa ng president ngmsmagalinh prang me silbi sa byan ang Ramos kaapelyido ng ex president na putak ng putak mga wla nman silbi
Fuck you Marlon Ramos!
Mind your own job!
Youre not an FBI/ NBI to interrogate, your job is siply to gather information and facts!
Unta ikaw 2 ang namatay!bwesit ka!
marlon, umuwi ka na lang sa inyo maglaba ka at magsibak ka ng kahoy.. yun ang bagay sau.. ulol!
Gotcha. Deym, it’s kinda like Mr. Kong: Don’t give me a deym bullshit ques…hahaha.
Mr. Reporter Ramos, simple question, “how would you like to be the president of this country which was left in ruins of the past administrations
Journalist like you Marlon should had appreciated that our Pres. Duterte had the guts to pursue the war on drugs, corrupt officials and the scawalags alike.. you and the rest journalist who think you can just put down a man whom 16th millions voters voted our president, YOU ARE WRONG!.. we had seen realities unfolded in front of us, and, we will FIGHT together with President Duterte AGAINST YOU, THE YELLOWS ALIKE!!!!!
Wow! He is so eloquent!
Well, if he is such a good reporter, how come he didn’t seem to know how big the drug problem is too??? What have they been reporting?
We appreciate a person’s constructive but shun destructive critism.. If you have better suggestions say it and be heard…
Hahaha…. useless na question pero ok din para sa katulad na nagiisip na katulad ganyan? It’s a common sense crimes and any sort of illegal around the globe hindi po na hihinto. If you have a high value na pag-iisip you implement to stop this doing any sort of violence that cause in the community, so you have the action instead of ignoring the problem that are flooded to your country. So sa lahat po ng gusto ng peace and growth sa ekonomiya hindi po letteral parati sa isip not to be narrowed minded be open the positive thinking the value of action of a person said it means millions things like such to protect you, strengthen you, raise you up. Not pinning you down into the dens of criminals …. Ceguro points lang po ang ating basis para hindi maging mangmang, because positive thinkers won’t credit this kind of questioning non sense to our beloved President.
Ito pa rin ang reporter Ramos ang nakasagutan ni Sec. Andanar way back 3 months ago of an issue he wanted to press with him which got the ire of the secretary.
Reporter ba si Marlon Ramos?? Sa tingin ko TSISMOSO LANG… SA TINGIN KO LANG HA..TSISMOSO!!!!!
That guy beside marlon is joseph morong with an evil smilepathetic
Bihira nating marinig o makalap ang mga ganitong magagandang “inputs at insights” kaya kailangan talaga merong mga tao sa tingin natin harsh para lalabas yung hindi natin usual na maririnig na mga pananaw, kung sa pilikula, mi kuntra-beda para maipalabas ang kagandahan ng karakter ng beda. Itong si M. Ramos, karamihan sa’tin tingin sa kanya di n’ya masyado gusto si Mahal na Pangulong Duterte kesyo ganito, ganiri di pangulo, nakikita n’ya, sabihin nating negative side, pero lingid sa kanyang damdamin, karamihan natin mga Pilipino ay gustong gusto yung karakter ng pangulo dahil yun ang nagpabago ng takbo sa pamamalakad tungo sa kaunlaran ng ating Bansa. There is a vast cold South across the North Pole, a deadly Southpaw to a common Orthodox and it takes a heavier Negative charge to catch a Positive to ignite a beautiful striking Lightning.
Marlon Ramos: Don’t ask silly question para lang may masabi ka. NAGING KATAWATAWA KA TULOY.
This business speaker fully understood who where asking and what that person wants to hear. But did not realise that a good businessman must be nuetral. Understand this question, “Why merchants still exist for centuries of wars and calamity?”. Because they stay nuetral but stick where the profit may be. His answer does not offend the man asking and at the same time does not offend the subject. Brilliant.