Penchant for cosmetic changes
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They had the country’s initials RP changed to Phl or PH whatever is deemed appropriate, no different from just the other day when Wow Philippines was revised to Pilipinas kay Ganda!, something which is so drab that somebody needed to attach a porn link to its Web site to make it interesting.
Prior to these nonsensical changes, Noynoy said he preferred people calling him P-Noy that many thought referred to a poor man’s delicacy made out of duck’s egg. The long known Office of the Press Secretary was mangled into two, the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office and the Presidential Communications Group, which despite the overstaffing, with now three official spokesmen of Cabinet rank for the President, were all devoted to arguing with bloggers.
Despite the too many heads in the communications group, for instance, nobody thought of negotiating for the rights on the coverage of the Asian games proceedings which for the first time in so many holdings of the event will not be seen by Filipinos to know how the country’s bets are doing.
The pretentious air in Noynoy and the self-righteous members of the civil socialites around him was what set off Sen. Miriam Santiago the other day in a deliberation of the Commission on Appointments (CA)..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101120com1.html
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