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President Arroyo skirts media

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo left all the explaining to Press Secretary Cerge Remonde and press assistant secretary- -TV host and former actress Cecil Kristin “Baby” O’Brien- -when she went straight to the second event in the itinerary, though time element would tell she was still in Amorita Resort in Panglao when the local media arrived there for the national and regional media interview yesterday morning as scheduled.

What had been planned as a two-on-one interview with ABS-CBN senior reporter Nadia Trinidad and past Bohol Tri-Media Association president Peter Dejaresco was reduced to a small media interaction with Secretary Remonde and Secretary Hermogenes Esperon Jr. of the Presidential Management Staff (PMS).

Some members of the local media were there even just take down notes to help disseminate any good news that the President would announce.

The rest in the itinerary pushed through about one hour ahead of schedule- -ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Sandugo Regional One Town, One Product or OTOP Trade Fair at the Island City Mall, inauguration of the twenty-million-peso Bohol Medical Care Institute building in Barangay Dao, Tagbilran City and the conferment of Datu Sikatuna Award of Excellence by the provincial government to the President during the commemorative program for the 155th Bohol Foundation Day in Bohol Cultural Center.

Media left out in the Presidential visit

Usherettes in yesterday’s commemorative program of Bohol Foundation Day in the cultural center gave away the seats reserved for the media to others in the audience and reprimanded a news writer who went out her way to get three chairs from the pile for her colleagues who needed to sit to be able to take down notes.

The usherettes told them that those chairs in the pile that they were about to add to the seats in the audience were not for the media.

The signing of the memorandum of agreement on the jatropha project between the provincial government and PNOC-AFC followed at Bohol Tropics, oblivious to the many members of the local media.

Some reporters managed to get a ride to the venue upon learning it from a community organizer of BPRMO at the end of the commemorative program. But again, there was no table reserved for the media in the venue.


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I was watching the meeting in the oval office between Arroyo and Obama and noticed half the press was Filipino and the other half was American whites.

Now here I am the only white in the media and I like any other media are kept at a very far distance from the president when she visits the province.

But if you noticed the press is very close in on the two presidents as in touching distance.

Here it is a totally different story.






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one time i saw Erap at the Airport in Bohol; he still has his "masa" charm.

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