Too many cooks in the Palace press office
INTROSPECTIVE By Tony Katigbak (The Philippine Star) | Updated November 6, 2013 - 12:00am
One year ago to be exact, I wrote a column entitled “A three-headed Hydra in Malacañang†about having too many voices speaking for the presidency. Today, the president is sadly finding out that his strategy of appointing three communications groups has truly backfired. In fact, his public image is on a steady decline because his spokespersons are doing such a poor job addressing the nation’s concerns — most of all when it comes to the pork barrel issue. The ideas they have tried when it comes to addressing this concern are almost laughable and, so far, not a single one has worked.
I think that whoever thought of advising President Aquino into taking 17 minutes out of primetime soap opera slots to talk about his daang matuwid was completely off base and downright ludicrous. Unless the president was going on air to break some earth shattering news such as he was going to give up his own pork barrel and keep just a fraction for calamity purposes, the viewers most likely cursed him for cutting into their viewing time only to tell them everything they have already heard before..
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