Aquino won’t stop tirade vs media
By TJ Burgonio
It won’t be the last of President Benigno Aquino’s tirade against the media.
It won’t be the last of President Benigno Aquino’s tirade against the media.
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) has called on the media not to remain silent on President Benigno Aquino III’s criticisms and not to take it sitting down “when he deigns to tell us how to go about our work and what to put into it.”
ABS-CBN News and Public Affairs is standing by its main anchor, former Vice President Noli de Castro.
Even before President Benigno Aquino III made his biting comments against one of the country’s most popular news anchors, ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. itself has been upset about broadcaster Noli De Castro’s habit of injecting his opinion during the prime time news telecast. It, however, chose not to reprimand its iconic anchor but merely cautioned him about showing his leanings in the delivery of news.
Why greet viewers a “Magandang gabi, bayan (Good evening, nation)” when you’re dishing out bad news? President Benigno Aquino III on Friday night lashed out at executives, producers and staff of ABS-CBN’s “TV Patrol” for highlighting the negative in their early evening news program during the show’s silver anniversary celebration at the Manila Hotel.
Employees of the Pampanga branch of the Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-Ibig Fund) said a person more powerful than their superiors had exerted pressure on Pag-Ibig to ensure the quick release of housing loans taken out by Globe Asiatique Realty Holdings Corp. for spurious fund members. “Something or someone of great power must have been [...]
MANILA, Philippines — There is no evidence that will require the inclusion of former Vice President Noli de Castro in the charge sheet involving the alleged anomalous transaction between Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-Ibig Fund) and Globe Asiatique, Vice President Jejomar Binay, concurrent chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, said in an [...]
