Mind conditioning by the Palace?
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Over the past several days, the press has been coming out with purported contents of the Malacañang lawyers’ review of the IIRC report, all of which smells like a deliberate leak by the Palace to the media, but all of which report content carries one single theme: DILG Undersecretary Puno does not deserve to be punished, while all others indicted by the IIRC report are getting lesser charges such as negligence.
The presidential mouthpieces reaction to the leak, however, is pretty strange. They deny that the Palace report has been leaked out by anyone from Malacañang and again claim that there will be an investigation on this.
But what is strange is that when asked to confirm or deny the reports, they do neither, merely saying that the public can wait for the report scheduled again for Monday.
Strangely enough, those who should not have been charged, such as the two broadcast personalities who interviewed the hostage-taker, are reportedly to be charged for “reckless imprudence,” whatever that means in relation to media interviews..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101009com2.html
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