I just lost a bit mood to mylot.

As a tourist country, happened such a terrible thing, more or less will make a bad impress with other people, no exception for media. I think not all media wants is bad news, maybe just bad news can catch people's attention. And for the tourist, for example, he want to visit a place, he must have leaned the beautiful things and want to see from that, so he decide to visit, but before going, he also must learn some notes, and the bad news maybe as a reference. All of this is my own's opinions.

hi letran it seems that the media never knows when to quit on some bad news and I often wonder if they know the hell that they put people through.This remark by CNN was uncalled for too. Thats really sad that that journalist thought he just had to say that. No wonder you feel sick, thats a terrible thing to say about anyone's country. I have met a lot of filippinos and have learned your country is really beautiful and trppical with a lot going for it and many people love to travel to the Philippines for vacations too.

i have followed the incident since noontime. and all i can say is, the policemen are to blame, especially the ground commanders. they seemed to be so calm dealing with the situation. aside from their men are not fully-equipped.

I wouldn't blame you. since mylot is across the world, the whole world will criticize what the cops did.

I think CNN is right anyway, In my opinion the PNP has failed to preserve the life of the hostages. WTF is wrong with the PNP, There was a good chance they would have grab the hostages taker during the negotiation but yet they did not act on in, The two PNP officers had all the chances to grad the hostages taker during the negotiation of the bus door and they did not even attempt. Taking into consideration that hostage taker was armed with an armalite rifle, it is so clearly publish in todays newspaper, The first officer could have grad the left hand and the socend officer could have grab the right hand, pulling the assailant down on the ground, The hostage taker was holding a RIFLE in close range, in close range a rifle is useless, Even the snipers where too coward to fire the shoots. For me MR. Knight i believe this is not a bad news but the worst ever news to hit our country.I was waiting for Pnoy or maybe Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile to arrive to handle the negotiation and yet they failed my expectations, THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL SCENE and it has become AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT. What are we to say now with other My Lotters?

Hi LetranKnight, It was a bad mistake of allowing Mendoza to have access to news coverage that cost the life of the eight tourists. Probably he is mentally not so sound to take hostage and anything could have triggered him off. Since he was quite calm initially, the best thing would be to negotiate with him the terms he asked for and settle it quickly. To me, it seems that the police didn't put the safety of the hostages as a priority.

Well I guess what I observed from last night's operation was that police was ill equipped and somehow not used to this kind of situations since it looked like they do not know what to do in there just posturing around the side of the bus. They could not even open the main door in here. I think they could have taken advantage of the baggage compartment below to access and somehow and sneak silently to monitor movements from above the bus. But it has all happened and we are saddened and a bit shamed from this. I think it is not only CNN but the whole world look down upon us upon seeing how we dealt with the situation in here. Sad, tragic and shameful that is all I can say about the situation.

But it's true. The tourists were just visiting the sites here in the capital of the country and they are taken as hostages. Sure it's an isolated incident but it goes to show that these things can happen. He let the Filipinos go and just killed the Chinese. How would a prospective tourist look at that? I do agree that the entire thing was handled clumsily. The media should not have been able to have access to the family and especially to the hostage-taker. Only in the Philippines you will see a criminal giving interviews while he is committing a crime. The authorities should have cut their access to television and radio and should have controlled the flow of information. The whole thing was just bungled. If I were a tourist, I would think twice before coming here too.

Media wants to get high rating....as for CNN, what they said is too much. How can they say that we are the worst country to go to if even in their country, crimes like that happen too!

Blame it on the stupid , coward , police enforcer. This is not the first time, they failed. One most annoying hostage drama is that of a young boy happened in a bus station ---years ago. The stupid cops killed that boy.