Public opinion?
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Noynoy and his prosecutors, as well as some of their senator-judges, aided by the Yellow media, are banking on trial and conviction by publicity in wooing the so-called public opinion to justify their impeachment vote of conviction of the Chief Justice, as the prosecution cannot seem to win its case in the courtroom.
Noynoy and his aides have come up many times to claim that the people are behind him and support his move to have Chief Justice Renato Corona removed from the high court, because the surveys say so.
In the same vein, some senator-judges allies with Noynoy also claim that public opinion does matter when they vote on the fate of the CJ.
But just what is public opinion? The surveys? The Yellow news media that want to make people believe that which they say affect public opinion? The interest of the “public” that is, the Filipino people in the impeachment trial and the fate of the CJ?.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120126com2.html
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