Loss Of Credibility

Last Saturday, I arrived home to relax and catch a few hours of info-TV. For this week, I decided to join my siblings for an hour of Mike Enriquez's Imbestigador. It was the Halloween presentation and we thought it would be really fun to scare ourselves half to death--just like last year. This year promised to be a really good screamer. They had footage of some ghosts appearing in creepy places as well as seemingly harmless venues such as public utility vehicles.

We waited patiently as they presented the lesser stories. The first one was really bad--okay, just boring. It was a masked magician. Masked because he was revealing the secrets to the most intriguing tricks--namely, cutting a lady into three parts--knowing very well that an illusionist to reveal the trade secrets is against the magician's code of ethics.

Finally, the portion we were waiting for came...the ghost videos. We were all expecting an extensive story from the people who happened to catch the ghosts on camera. Boy, were we disappointed. After much drama on the presentation of the videos, they suddenly tell the audience that last week's presentation of the video was part of their televised experiment. Everything was a hoax.

I tell you, even if they win an award for this episode, they will have a hard time getting me to watch this show again. This is a classic example of "trust betrayed". And to the people involved in the conceptualization of this televised hoax:

"Good luck in regaining the public's trust."