Last week, Probe TV in the Philippines did a profile of the outgoing US Ambassador to the Philippines, Kristie Kenney. The show is also on replay apparently every Thursday at 6:00 p.m. and every Saturday at 12 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
“The show that started investigative reporting on Philippine TV is on to a new brand of probing. To explain issues relevant to the public, on its 22nd year, ‘Probe’ takes a harder look at the men and women of the hour.”
Here is Probe TV’s introduction to the video: Farewell, Ambassador Kenney
In the more than 100-year-old love-hate relationship between the Philippines and the United States, no American envoy was spared of occasional brickbats until Ambassador Kristie Kenney. The first female US ambassador to the Philippines has endeared herself to Filipinos from all walks of life in just less than four years.
Reaching out to Filipinos, Kenney embraced the country’s culture and people in a way that no other envoy did -- letting her hair down and dancing on national television, watching her favorite basketball teams in action, mingling with ordinary citizens, and visiting a rebel camp in Mindanao, among others.
As she prepares to leave her post, Ambassador Kenney shares something more with Filipinos -- her life story, for the first time, this Wednesday on ‘Probe Profiles.’
In an exclusive interview with Cheche Lazaro, the Ambassador looks back at the milestones of her tour of duty and candidly talks about her childhood and love life that can pass for a telenovela. Through interviews with Kenney’s co-workers in the embassy and her two household staff, Lazaro pieces together a profile of the Ambassador who gave a new meaning to diplomacy in the Philippines.
The show is in Tagalog and English and subtitles in English. Transcript of the interview in English is here.
- Ambassador Kristie Kenney Part 1
- Ambassador Kristie Kenney Part 2
- Ambassador Kristie Kenney Part 3
- Ambassador Kristie Kenney Part 4
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