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[Aug. 4th, 2008|11:12 pm] |
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was watching anc's "top story" earlier, while waiting for "the simpson's" rerun on star world. pretty much watched through the whole program and found press secretary jesus dureza's quip on pia hontiveros' reporting (or, as she said, the editors' news writing) being negatively slanted as something really called for. heck, even i missed that spin.
hontiveros reported sws survey results on govenment agencies' and government leaders' satisfaction rating where, seemingly as usual, gma and her cabinet got a negative rating. the slant of her report was that the government leaders allied with gma, like vp noli de castro and house speaker prospero nograles, and the cabinet got negative ratings true. which were true - but, like what dureza pointed out, the report failed to say that the satisfaction rating of the cabinet actually improved by one point from -10 to -9.
that makes sense actually; framed that way, it shows that while still unsatisfactorily perceived by the public, the cabinet is actually gaining trust and the results indicate that it is doing a good job (well, as far as public perception is concerned, of course; probably because of the populist subsidies and media offensive the government has been engaged with over the past four months).
i also think it's a plus for him (dureza) when he said that "survey results will be a guide for us". obviously unlike executive secretary eduardo ermita and his rightist co-horts, dureza knows what surveys are and what use they can have. even hontiveros said on-air that he makes a good press secretary (in fairness, he was able to explain the government's reaction on the temporary restraining order issued by the supreme court on the ancestral land domain memorandum of agreement with the milf).
but while i missed the spin on anc's reporting (a lopez arm is a lopez arm by any name, eh?), i did find nograles' reaction to his negative ratings impressive. he said that his ratings as house speaker doesn't matter as much as the ratings of the house did since they are and work as an institution (the house got zero net satisfaction ratings, which was still good, since it got negative before)
i've just read the papers again and i think this whole moa on ancestral domain issue is really politically charged, in the sense that a lot of interests are playing here. i'm not yet that well-versed with the issue but if pdi's editorial today is any dummy guide to the whole thing, i think signing the moa now is either a wrong move or a ploy to federalism (or any constitutional changes for that matter). it proves that people's patriotic movement's dr. emilio yap's lecture on the historical truth really has a lot of value into it (he explained the whole conflict, involving the americans, and even had some documentary proof to prove it). with some sort of futuresight (as told by dr. yap), this will be an interesting issue to follow.
anyway, i inquired at the philippine-american educational foundation earlier on how to get the toefl and gre tests. seems like i really have to register online and pay with a credit card if i want to take the tests soon and get the results in by mid-november. i hope fate's with me on this. i really want to start my ph.d soon. i think i've waited enough for nothing with ust. |
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