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Saturday, April 1, 2017
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MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte is not keen on initiating cases against media firms he has accused of being biased in framing his policies, a Malacañang official said on Friday, noting that there are other important matters the chief executive needs to do.
“I don’t think he will be filing a formal complaint… There are more serious matters to be taken on,” presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said at a press conference.
Also, he said that the President only took exception to the way some media outlets “caricatures certain situations.”
“For example, the way the war on drugs was framed as the war versus the poor. It seems to imply that he’s actually focusing on a particular class which is hardly the point. But the way the particular media framed it insinuates a particular bias which leans towards malice,” Abella said.
After administering the oath for the new officers of the Philippine Councilors’ League on Thursday, Duterte launched a lengthy tirade against the Philippine Daily Inquirer and ABS-CBN for being biased in some of their reports.
Duterte also rebuked the owners of the two media firms, the Prieto family of the Inquirer and the Lopez family of ABS-CBN, calling them oligarchs.
But Abella on Thursday clarified that the President’s remarks were actually a plea for “fairness” in reporting.
Asked if Environment secretary Gina Lopez’s reappointment would be affected by the President’s “adversarial” attitude towards ABS-CBN, Abella said: “I think those are two separate matters (reappointment and ABS-CBN). The secretary belongs to the wealthy Lopez clan.
“As far as we can see, he (Duterte) can be quite objective about these things and he’s able to compartmentalize certain matters,” he added.
The Malacañang had said Duterte would keep Lopez, Agrarian Reform secretary Rafael Mariano, Social Welfare secretary Judy Taguiwalo, and Health secretary Paulyn Ubial in their respective posts, after the Commission on Appointments failed to confirm their appointments before the Lenten break. (GMA News)
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