What honeymoon? TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 06/20/2010

What honeymoon?

TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 06/20/2010 Was there any wedding in the first place that merits the luxury of a honeymoon? But that is what everybody would like to afford President-elect Noynoy Aquino, at least for the next one hundred days. But how could he when wedding bells do not fantasize him at all! If the elections were a wedding ceremony complete with “I do’s” and commitments between President Noynoy and the Filipino people, then there needs be a “honeymoon” period even for the first bachelor president of this country. But he did had one, even before the elections. Honeymoons are all sweet, opulent, illusory, as in beholding the lunar shapes and sounds and watching the constellations. As practiced in this country, the first 100 days normally come out as a balato by the media and the people in general to the newly seated president, a sort of temporary reprieve from the usual onslaughts or tirades media normally throw at the new Palace occupant. Originally, however, the first one hundred days pioneered by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a personal test on his first crack on the whip of crisis management in addressing the Great Depression that greeted his inaugural presidency in 1933. It was a make or break for FDR’s presidency and therefore he had no time for a “honeymoon” with the American people or media. FDR and Americans bored their noses together in the mire of economic and political depression to rise above the crisis. It is not too much to expect the same from President Noynoy. A media holiday on criticisms, expositions and investigative journalism, plus the fun and puns of journalistic licenses of not-so-friendly columnists is no longer necessary for the next 100 days, since the mainstream media, the yellow media, have been undeniably nice and easy with President Noynoy, 100 days or so before the elections! Besides, with such a very sympathetic and biased yellow mainstream media so identified with the incoming leader, what objectivity or credibility do we expect from these networks and publications in putting their anointed into their hot seat! They must just continue with the honeymooning.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100620com6.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL Change? What change? FRONTLINE Not a people’s president focus Kyrgyzstan clashes were anti-Uzbek massacre — victims BLURBAL THRUSTS Independents key to Senate presidency C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Tug of war TABLETS OF STONE What honeymoon? VIEWPOINTS Aquino flagship commitment: No graft and corruption