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But while talking to the technician, I heard a series of gunfire from the phone.

I ran to the next building and called up by phone to the technician on- board and warned them that the men are armed and probably NPA hitmen looking for me. Though I made an excuse for a possible escape, I regretted telling the men such remark when I remembered that the on-board announcer was my own brother Joey. I never waited for the guard to pinpoint me but instead told the men to proceed to the second floor because Chito is there at the booth doing his broadcast. The instinct of survival was always in my mind. at the canteen beside the entrance of the radio station when four young men arrived and asked the security guard for Chito Herbolingo. Sensationalism was then the game to earn our keep. The important one is how they reported it fast and made ‘kantiyaw’ to other reporters who came late. Reporters do not care if somebody is gotten killed and why. Both our reporters were competed each other as to who could get first the flash reports of ambuscades, encounters, ‘salvagings’ and sparrow assassinations. There were times that we invented a ‘zombie’ story roaming around the city just to attract listeners. With Davao City’s looming killing fields, reporters become wary and restless without reportage of somebody got killed before twelve o’clock at noon. Not that the station is concerned in the life of the victim but how it is being exploited, exaggerated and dramatized to attract listeners as an element to be rated number one, especially during surveys conducted by PRC and Media Pals. A police beat reporter who could not report immediately a shooting incident is reprimanded. With both stations pressured by top management, Pala and I made several gimmicks on our respective programs on air to attract avid listeners.

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Like other radio stations, the vision of Bombo is how to get to the top in its never-ending ‘ratings war’ and our stiffest competitor is the DXRH “Operation Tulong” anchored then by no less than Jun Pala himself.

It took me almost two years before I reached the level of Jun Pala when I was elevated to the position of anchorman at DXMF Bombo Radyo. My mother and our nine-year-old youngest sister were among those badly wounded.

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He has just arrived from my hometown in Agusan del Sur to inform me how the NPAs ambushed a logging truck full of hitch hikers killing 33 persons (11 soldiers and 22 civilians). One of them was my very own 19-year-old younger brother Joseph. After a year of reporting the famed killing fields in the South, where I was broadcasting live on air three to five persons killed daily, I was the first reporter to arrive in Barangay Ilang where there were three persons summarily executed allegedly by the military. I also covered their arrests upon orders of then Philippine Constabulary Recom 11 chief BGen. Alex Orcullo, and lawyers Bebot Bello, Larry Ilagan and Tony Arellano, among others, led both contingents. The other contingent from the north started their long walk from Panabo, Davao del Norte. Cruz, Davao del Sur to Davao City, together with thousands of marchers. My first salvo was to cover the March, 1984 Lakad ng Bayan Para sa Kalayaan (Lakbayan) in a place where I used to walk more than 20 kilometers – from Sta. Jobless and confused of the situation, I applied as a radio reporter at DXMF Radyo Sandigan, which was later, renamed Bombo Radyo.