Since May 2022 national
elections is just around the corner and all the aspirants for the national
positions are already making rounds.
We decided to quote in
full the article written by Mr. Louis “Barok” Birago which was published last
February 11, 2022 in Manila Standard.
Titled, “Robredo, not
BBM, is the real coward” he tackles the issue of the importance of the
presidential debates and the necessity of attending them.
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Please see full quote
below for your understanding:
“Robredo, not BBM, is
the real coward”
Last
month, presidential aspirant and ex-Senator Bongbong Marcos (BBM) declined an
invitation to participate in a television program hosted by Jessica Soho on the
GMA-7 network. Soho planned to pit BBM against his visible rivals in the
presidential race.
The
BBM camp considered Soho a biased moderator. Soho was expected to harass BBM
with questions about personal issues rather than about the platform of
government of the candidates. Rather than getting badgered by Soho, BBM opted
not to be part of Soho’s charade.
True
to expectations, online trolls of Vice President Leni Robredo, who is also
running for President, flooded social media and a notoriously anti-Marcos daily
newspaper with comments about BBM being a coward, and non sequitur remarks
against BBM’s father, the late President Ferdinand Marcos.
BBM
did not dignify those unfounded tirades.
Last
week, the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) organized a similar TV
forum for some candidates for President, including BBM, who is leading; the
egotistical Manila Mayor Francisco Domagoso; take-two presidential aspirant
Senator Panfilo Lacson; the punch-drunk and hollow-minded Senator Manny
Pacquiao; and the quintessential political opportunist Robredo.
Journalists
handpicked by the KBP were to ask the questions. How and why they were chosen
for the job was not explained by the KBP.
Four
of the five candidates attended, save for BBM, who begged off on account of a
previous commitment.
As
usual, the Robredo trolls called BBM a coward and flooded social media and the
same anti-Marcos newspaper with their vile comments.
Again,
the BBM camp rightfully ignored those remarks.
Actually,
the KBP suffers from zero credibility, and is perceived in the broadcast
industry as a useless organization.
Just
ask GMA-7. In 2003, GMA-7 withdrew its membership from the KBP, apparently
because KBP regulations on the volume of advertising for each broadcast hour
are too strict. Since then, GMA-7 has been operating outside of the KBP, and
rakes in big money from the endless commercials it airs.
After
the ABS-CBN broadcasting empire failed to obtain a renewal of their legislative
franchise in 2020, ABS-CBN (which remains a member of the KBP) entered into an
illegal deal with Zoe Broadcasting. That deal allowed ABS-CBN to broadcast its
programs in Zoe’s TV channel, which was renamed the A2Z Channel. The deal is
illegal because the legislative franchise of Zoe does not allow it to lend or
lease its franchise to another entity without the prior written consent of
Congress. No such consent has been obtained.
Like
the useless Commissioner Gamaliel Cordoba of the National Telecommunications
Commission who has not done anything to address the illegal use of the Zoe TV
franchise, the KBP has done nothing about the said anomaly.
If
the KBP can’t even live up to its self-imposed responsibility of promoting
professionalism in Philippine broadcast media, it has no business organizing a
TV forum on presidential candidates just to promote itself to the public as a
respectable institution.
No
wonder BBM did not attend the KBP TV forum.
There
are practical reasons for BBM not to participate in that KBP forum. BBM is very
much ahead in the surveys, and his many supporters will certainly vote for him,
even if he does not appear in any TV forum. Attending the KBP affair will only
entice the other candidates and the journalists present to gang up on BBM
needlessly, and for the most unfair and unfounded of reasons.
Anti-BBM
partisans will never vote for BBM regardless of what BBM says in the KBP forum.
Attending the forum will be an utter waste of time for BBM.
Even
the quality of the information the KBP forum will actually convey to the public
is meaningless.
Do
the Math. Six candidates in an estimated 90-minute program are expected to
discuss the reasons why the electorate should vote for them. Considering the
time allotted to advertisements; the questions to be asked by the journalists;
and the usual marginal comments and interruptions, each candidate has an
aggregate of just about 6 to 8 minutes to deliver his spiel. That’s a useless
way to convince voters. Each candidate is better off speaking in small
gatherings where he has the forum for himself.
It
is also incorrect to call BBM a coward.
After
being forcibly exiled abroad in the wake of the 1986 EDSA Revolution, BBM
willingly returned to the Philippines, aware that he will be prosecuted and
persecuted under President Corazon Aquino’s vindictive government. BBM was not
afraid to face the music. For me, that is enough reason not to call BBM a
coward.
In
my view, Leni Robredo is the real coward. Robredo isn’t even honest enough to
admit that she is not really the “independent” candidate for President she
claims to be, but a bet of the much despised Liberal Party. That’s cowardice,
period.
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