PNoy jabs at Kabayan Noli for out of place snide remarks * TV Patrol

[explorer]

meron ng taga 'media' na pumanig kay PNoy....

from: www.philstar.com

Kabayan Noli was just a perfect example

AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR
By William M. Esposo (The Philippine Star)
Updated July 29, 2012 12:00 AM

Many folks were surprised by that scathing speech of President Noynoy Aquino (P-Noy) at the TV Patrol 25th Anniversary Party last July 27, which was held at the Manila Hotel. P-Noy didn’t hold his punches when he made Kabayan Noli de Castro an example of counterproductive inaccurate reporting and negativism.

Indeed, it was untypical for a guest of honor to a special event to criticize the very TV program that is being feted as well as its long time anchor, former senator and vice president Noli de Castro. P-Noy took Noli to task on three issues. There was the side comment comparing NAIA III with NAIA I, the speculation that there was something irregular in a successful hostage retrieval operation and the third example was the negative remark posed through a question on reported good news about transport costs.

One thing about P-Noy is that he knows how to score a haymaker of a punch. P-Noy bored down on the vulnerability of de Castro. He cited Noli for having done nothing when he was a vice president for 6 years and yet could now presume to have the high ground on various issues. “Minana lang namin ito sa inyo (We just inherited these from you)” was specially stinging coming from P-Noy and coming right after the delivery of the SONA (State of the Nation Address) where many were impressed by the 25-month track record of P-Noy.

Reactions online were mostly favorable. People agree that our media, especially broadcast media, should improve their editorial policies. Many of those with negative opinions about the stinging speech centered on whether that was the right occasion to do it. In other words, it wasn’t the content but the forum that they found objectionable.

I have to disagree with them about whether that was the right forum and occasion to do it. On the contrary, it was the perfect forum and occasion to do it if P-Noy wanted to take to task a media entity that could unjustly jeopardize the achievements of his administration. It was the perfect forum because ABS-CBN Chairman Gabby Lopez and News Boss Jing Reyes were there.

My having been a vocal critic of the way primetime TV newscasts have gone the route of tabloids, Gabby Lopez once invited me for lunch at their restaurant in ABS-CBN. My wife Meyang, Jing Reyes and ABS-CBN Corporate Communications Head Bong Osorio were there with us. That was when TV Patrol was newly reformatted and Noli, Korina Sanchez and Ted Failon were reinstated as the new anchors. TV Patrol had been losing out to 24 Oras, prompting the TV Patrol revamp.

I shared with Gabby and Jing my observations about the level of discourse in TV Patrol. It must be noted that TV Patrol and 24 Oras were the highest rating TV primetime newscasts and that close to 90 percent of Filipinos rely on these news programs as their main sources of news and information. I also expressed discomfort with how the news anchors were doing editorials — a no-no in journalism.

Noli de Castro can speculate all he wants in his DZMM radio program, which isn’t a newscast but a commentary. There’s no place for his personal opinion, especially when that’s sheer speculation, on TV Patrol. News is an important public service that’s there to enlighten the citizenry and help them make wise decisions based on updated facts and prevailing situations. Speculation in a news report misleads instead of leads a nation to progress.

“Judge and you shall be judged,” Christ preached in the Gospel. How would Noli feel if a 24 Oras anchor speculated if he played a role in the Delfin Lee controversy that happened under his watch as the Housing Czar during the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) regime? After all, if my Ateneo batch mate Serge Valencia was implicated in the PCSO (Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office) fund mess because he sat as Chairman when it happened — why should Noli be different when it comes to the Delfin Lee controversy?

When you compare the powers that Serge Valencia had in PCSO with the powers that Noli enjoyed as GMA’s Housing Czar, you get the impression that it’s harder for Noli to avoid blame for the Delfin Lee fund mess. At the PCSO, we now know from the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearings that then General Manager, Rosario Uriarte, had wielded the real power.

That was not the case in the housing agencies under Noli de Castro. As Housing Czar and Chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Council (HUDCC), Noli was also ex-officio Chairman of the following key shelter agencies: National Housing Authority (NHA), Home Development and Mutual Fund or Pag-IBIG Fund, National Home Mortgage and Finance Corporation (NHMFC), Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB). He is also the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors (Ex-officio), Home Guaranty Corporation (HGC).

The broadside against de Castro didn’t seem to have registered with ABS-CBN. During their newscast later that evening, they carried the comment that was obviously addressed to P-Noy, “Wag pikon (Don’t be short tempered).” Are they just too stupid to have missed the point being made — how their brand of news reporting could bring down the country — or are they really that arrogant now?

Noli de Castro was not just an isolated case insofar as P-Noy is concerned. Noli just happened to present the perfect example of what P-Noy wanted to communicate — how irresponsible media reporting can bring our country down.

Sometime back, Karen Davila announced on her afternoon program on DZMM-Teleradyo that P-Noy was out dating during working hours. Coming at the heels of the “Noynoying” tag by the Reds, that was especially stinging for P-Noy. The truth was that P-Noy was in a long economic cluster meeting, which was something Davila could have easily checked with their Palace reporter. She did no such thing and bought hook, line and sinker the tweet of Edu Manzano.

Edu had apologized for making that wild and untruthful claim. I’m not aware if Davila had also apologized for her wild reporting.

[shadow]

^ano ka ba!? Mouthpiece ni pnoy yan si esposo


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[fourtheboys96]

To Pnoy: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Hindi lang naman ikaw ang presidenteng binatikos at hindi ikaw ang huling babatikusin.

Kumandidato ka bilang presidente tapos hindi mo alam yang ganyan. Tsk tsk tsk.

[explorer]

To Pnoy: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Hindi lang naman ikaw ang presidenteng binatikos at hindi ikaw ang huling babatikusin.

Kumandidato ka bilang presidente tapos hindi mo alam yang ganyan. Tsk tsk tsk.

eh si kabayad ba binatikus nya si pandak noon?

[explorer]

an article about kabayad in 2005....

from: hwww.hotmanila.ph

SEPTEMBER 5 2005
Gloria's not-so secret weapon
by Alan C. Robles
Hot Manila

President George Bush senior was often described as "impeachment proof." The reason? His vice president, Dan Quayle, was a nincompoop. In 1989, during one pre-inauguration briefing, a British journalist actually asked: "is it true that should anything happen to the president, the Secret Service have strict orders to immediately shoot Dan Quayle?"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo would understand. One big factor that has let her hang on to power this long is that she's got her own sub-caliber human shield - his name is Noli de Castro.

For more than two months now, without doing anything more than be himself, Vice President De Castro has been instrumental in thwarting attempts to unseat President Arroyo. Each time outrage over Mrs. Arroyo's chicaneries boils over, every time efforts to oust her work up a head of steam, the whole enterprise screeches to an abrupt halt when everyone realizes yet again who it is who'll take over.

The Vice President is not Satan's spawn, nor does he have a record of serial child molestation. By most accounts, De Castro is charmingly personable. And if sartorial splendor were the only requisite of leadership, the natty, elegant and expensively-dressed vice president would surely be on the top of everybody's "go for" list.

No, the problem is that nobody knows what's underneath all that elegant packaging. De Castro has been vice president for more than a year now and was a senator for three years before that. Yet the public still hasn't a clue what it is he stands for.

He claims to have the interests of the media, the poor and the overseas workers close to his heart, and can point to a stack of bills and resolutions he filed as a senator. But these are all standard, generic statements and deeds. Sponsorship of a bill entitled "An inquiry in aid of legislation into the causes of the mass evacuation of Filipino residents in Sabah" doesn't quite cut it as the stuff of great accomplishments.

It's difficult seeing any fire, passion, depth or perceptiveness in this man. For someone who used to be in broadcasting, De Castro has been singularly nonchalant and unruffled over the fact that the Philippines is now the world's second most lethal country (after Iraq) for journalists. And on the great issues convulsing the nation - massive corruption, abuse of power, accountability, political reform - the vice president has no position to offer.

As far as is known, De Castro's current political ambition is a negative one. He does not want President Arroyo to step down. A news report claims that this July, when Mrs. Arroyo was supposedly thinking of packing it in, De Castro and executive Eduardo Ermita prevailed upon her to stay put. The vice president, according to the story, vehemently said he wasn't ready to be president.

How can Mrs. Arroyo not help but feel fondness for such a man, the best investment she ever made in the parade of political lightweights and nonentities she's brought to government service? No doubt she's congratulated herself on the decision to take him on as her running mate. She should also be grateful her vice president hasn't proved as enterprising as she herself was in similar circumstances (five years ago, when she was vice president, Mrs. Arroyo denounced then President Estrada even before his impeachment trial started and called on him to resign for the sake of the country and the economy).

Even more important for the administration, De Castro has been silent and docile about the Garci scandal. Perhaps he's waiting for someone to hand him a script. After all, it's what he does best, and what he owes his meteoric political rise to: reading a teleprompter and saying "magandang gabi bayan" in a deep, pompous voice.

The fact is, De Castro's swift transformation from news reader to senator and then vice president owes nothing to any skills in governance, management or politics. He simply followed the route taken by basketball players, toilet comedians and bad actors, parlaying media visibility and popularity into votes. The vice president has never run a company, managed a business, nor (unlike Mrs. Arroyo) headed a government agency. It is unlikely that his madcap gallop from senator to vice president (he didn't even bother to finish his term in the senate) has given him any experience or preparation for national politics and statecraft.
Given these deficits, it's understandable why Vice President De Castro would feel incapable of taking Mrs. Arroyo's place. His candor is admirable, but all the same, the question is, why did this man ever run for office to begin with? The depressing answer seems to be, because he knew he'd win.

What De Castro's career illustrates is not a failure of the presidential system, but a degradation of Philippine political culture. It's why there will be no happy endings to this crisis, no matter what the outcome.
For months, the prevailing view has been that junking Mrs. Arroyo and replacing her with De Castro would be a short hop from the wok to the flames. Now it's just a matter of time before the public, alarmed by the way the president is draining the treasury and deforming political institutions in her bid to stay on, will grasp the knife blade.

There is a lot of talk about a caretaker government but given this country's obsession with legalism, chances are fair to good that the vice president will wind up the chief executive. Filipinos are staring at the bottom of the political barrel. Staring back up at them is the face of Noli de Castro.

[fourtheboys96]

eh si kabayad ba binatikus nya si pandak noon?

VP siya noon kung hindi ako nag-kakamali. Hindi pa siya bumabalik sa TV.

At isa pa, katakot takot na batikos ang inabot ni Arroyo sa media. Isama mo na si erap at si ramos.

Wala ng bago dito.

[Bin Diesel]

VP siya noon kung hindi ako nag-kakamali. Hindi pa siya bumabalik sa TV.

At isa pa, katakot takot na batikos ang inabot ni Arroyo sa media. Isama mo na si erap at si ramos.

Wala ng bago dito.

Iba kasi ang dating ni Noli, syempre dati siyang VP tapos ang lakas niya mambatikos e siya mismo wala naman nagawa. Kaya mas masarap patulan para kay Pnoy.

[chua_riwap]

intayin natin tv patrol bukas. . . .

[pop3corn]

dapat naman tlaga pag retire-in na yan Noli De Castro na yan

He is a clear example of a media man na akala mo ang Dami alarn, ang Dami sagot, saviour at Kung anu-Ano pa style tapos ng binigyan ng pakakataon ng tadhana, ma-posisyon take note 2nd highest position in the land, tameme!

Kung talagang magaling sya dapat sya top contender against Pnoy eh, kse usually the VP can always take a shot at the Presidency.

yan Lang talaga silbe ng media, magaling sa réklamo at sumbat. if we really want to clean our system, clear their dirty mouths lalo na yan mga buwaya sa ABS-CBN.

[holdencaulfield]

dapat naman tlaga pag retire-in na yan Noli De Castro na yan

He is a clear example of a media man na akala mo ang Dami alarn, ang Dami sagot, saviour at Kung anu-Ano pa style tapos ng binigyan ng pakakataon ng tadhana, ma-posisyon take note 2nd highest position in the land, tameme!

Kung talagang magaling sya dapat sya top contender against Pnoy eh, kse usually the VP can always take a shot at the Presidency.

yan Lang talaga silbe ng media, magaling sa réklamo at sumbat. if we really want to clean our system, clear their dirty mouths lalo na yan mga buwaya sa ABS-CBN.

parehas lang naman sila ni ilong ehem-ekskyusmipo.
galit na galit esmi ko diyan.
kaya madalas ko sabihin sa umaga pag nanonood ako sa ch11,
"pt*ngina naman wala nakong maintindihan sa balita, huwag mo namang sabayan".

eh ganun talaga eh, sa ganiyan sila binabayaran.

[oliver1013]

Marami kasing bilib kay noli...

[oliver1013]

YouTube - Aquino lambasts Noli de Castro at "TV Patrol" celebration

Maayos naman ang mensahe...

[ZENMasterTYL]

a very well said speech in a very wrong place and timing by pnoy

parang yung ginawa din nya kay corona dati

ano kaya sasabihin ni kabayad mamaya sa tv patrol

[chua_riwap]

pero si ilong graduate ng la salle yan.
si kabayad, graduate ng recto.

di nga ba, noong election, yung tunay nyang asawa binulgar siya na pekeng college grad daw si kabayan? eh hirap ngang mag- ingles eh.

[holdencaulfield]

pero si ilong graduate ng la salle yan.
si kabayad, graduate ng recto.

ah totoong lasalista pala si ilong. sabi ko pa lakas magtrip nitong mokong nato. nung 100 ng la salle andun siya tapos pag may nabanggit sa la salle, ANIMO! sa loob-loob ko t*ngnamo panget mo nakiki lasalle kapang inampon ka lang. hehe

ah si noli UE recto pala yung all-in sa 700php diploma at transcript.

[oliver1013]

ABS-CBN stands by its man De Castro against Aquino

Mala tsikoteers din mga komento hehe

[explorer]

tingin ko mabubuhay na naman yung kaso ng Pagibig fund...di naman pwedeng i-impeach ni kabayad.

[oliver1013]

Kung ako kay pnoy wag na muna i push yung issue kay kabayad, baka ma brand nanaman na vindictive. He has spoken, and most people, based on comments in different forums and sites have sided with his logic..tama na muna yun, unless magkaron ng outcry sa issue sa pagibig at yung railway ek ek...then the people have spoken.

[shadow]

To Pnoy: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Hindi lang naman ikaw ang presidenteng binatikos at hindi ikaw ang huling babatikusin.

Kumandidato ka bilang presidente tapos hindi mo alam yang ganyan. Tsk tsk tsk.

Same with medias, if they can give it, they should also ready to received jabs


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[Retz]

haven't heard kabayan comments/rebuttal to Pnoys speech.