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Aklan media falls on April Fools’ DayBY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL
Rolly Herrera of IBC DyRG (middle) during the Aklan Press Club christmas party / PHOTO BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
KALIBO, Aklan – Pranksters had a good day on April Fools’ Day as they gave out false breaking news.
It all started with a text message, saying, “Rolly Herrera was gunned down at 7:45 p.m.”
Radio broadcaster Herrera is the anchorman of IBC DyRG’s news and public affairs program Birada sa Kahanginan.
Arnel Vicente, host of Bombo Radyo evening program, said he received the text message from an unidentified text sender on April 1 stating that Herrera was killed.
Vicente said he notified the local police to check the whereabouts of Herrera in Barangay Cayangwan, Makato, Aklan where he was staying with his wife.
National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) Aklan chapter chairman Jujet Reyes said he was alarmed by the ‘malicious and nasty text message’ involving his colleague in IBC DyRG.
“For journalists and broadcasters in Aklan, this message is a bad joke for us, a false warning, sending us to an uneasy situation,” said Reyes, anchorman of DyRG’s Limog it Banwa.
Joemer Soriano of DyIN Bombo Radyo, former Aklan Press Club president Odon Bandiola and Che Indelible of CBIS Hot FM also showed mutual concern if motorcycle-riding gunmen waylaid Herrera on his way home on board his single motorcycle.
William Arguelles of Aklan Media Forum even tried to call the mobile phone number where the message came from but the number was unattended. In the middle of the night, Herrera’s media friends also checked the hospitals in the capital town of Kalibo and police stations for gun-shooting related incidents.
It turned out the hard-hitting broadcaster Herrera was a victim of April Fool’s jokes. He is alive and kicking.
April 1 is April Fools’ Day, the day of pranks and practical jokes. It is one of the most light-hearted traditions people have observed for centuries. The global practice, it was said, began in 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII ordered the replacement of the Julian calendar.
In those days, the victim of the April Fools' Day joke was called poisson D'Avril or "April Fish" due to the fact that the sun was then leaving the Pisces zodiac sign, the fish. That practice of fun-making was so prevalent that all events happening on April the First were classed in that category.
Over these years, April Fools' Day has become a well-loved tradition in France . Almost two hundred years later, the tradition landed in England . From England , it then moved to the United States .
KALIBO, Aklan – Pranksters had a good day on April Fools’ Day as they gave out false breaking news.
It all started with a text message, saying, “Rolly Herrera was gunned down at 7:45 p.m.”
Radio broadcaster Herrera is the anchorman of IBC DyRG’s news and public affairs program Birada sa Kahanginan.
Arnel Vicente, host of Bombo Radyo evening program, said he received the text message from an unidentified text sender on April 1 stating that Herrera was killed.
Vicente said he notified the local police to check the whereabouts of Herrera in Barangay Cayangwan, Makato, Aklan where he was staying with his wife.
National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) Aklan chapter chairman Jujet Reyes said he was alarmed by the ‘malicious and nasty text message’ involving his colleague in IBC DyRG.
“For journalists and broadcasters in Aklan, this message is a bad joke for us, a false warning, sending us to an uneasy situation,” said Reyes, anchorman of DyRG’s Limog it Banwa.
Joemer Soriano of DyIN Bombo Radyo, former Aklan Press Club president Odon Bandiola and Che Indelible of CBIS Hot FM also showed mutual concern if motorcycle-riding gunmen waylaid Herrera on his way home on board his single motorcycle.
William Arguelles of Aklan Media Forum even tried to call the mobile phone number where the message came from but the number was unattended. In the middle of the night, Herrera’s media friends also checked the hospitals in the capital town of Kalibo and police stations for gun-shooting related incidents.
It turned out the hard-hitting broadcaster Herrera was a victim of April Fool’s jokes. He is alive and kicking.
April 1 is April Fools’ Day, the day of pranks and practical jokes. It is one of the most light-hearted traditions people have observed for centuries. The global practice, it was said, began in 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII ordered the replacement of the Julian calendar.
In those days, the victim of the April Fools' Day joke was called poisson D'Avril or "April Fish" due to the fact that the sun was then leaving the Pisces zodiac sign, the fish. That practice of fun-making was so prevalent that all events happening on April the First were classed in that category.
Over these years, April Fools' Day has become a well-loved tradition in France . Almost two hundred years later, the tradition landed in England . From England , it then moved to the United States .
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