The hypocrisy of it all
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
For someone who went to New York to speak about transparency in government, he comes off as merely again paying lip service to his pledges and claims of transparency in his government and of his claimed good governance.
Noynoy and his Palace mouthpieces may even think that they have succeeded in convincing, not just the Filipinos but also the world leaders that indeed, his is a transparent and “honest” government that is out to stamp the plague of corruption.
They should think again. Recall that while these various ambassadors to the Philippines openly give their praises of the Noynoy government and lavishly, what they write back home, by way of their secret cables may just be a different picture of what this Noynoy government is.
Still, it is the nature of the usual pro-government Manila media to portray their president in much too good a light, omitting or burying the actual picture..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110925com2.html
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naisip ko lang, nakokonensya ba ang mga kasapi ng dilaw na media sa pinaggagagawa nilang pagpapaikot sa bayan, kasama ang pagsuporta sa mga ganid at wlnghiya?
"It cannot be denied that the same media lavished praises on Gloria Arroyo even before she grabbed power from the Estrada government, and continued to portray her as the good against the evil that the media then branded then President Erap Estrada. And despite the many scams and scandals that rocked her government, all these were, in the first four and a half years of the Arroyo administration, hardly covered or reported by the same media, even when they knew just what was going on."
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