A Dud

With much media fanfare and excitement over Jun Lozada’s arrival, “abduction” and press conference, his senate testimony bomb that is supposed to bring down the President, is turning out to be another dud. With everybody failing to ask the right questions, the testimony is reduced into something like a rehash but less exciting version of the JDV2 and Neri testimonies.

Everybody now knows that Jun Lozada went to HK to avoid making a testimony. But no one knows why he went back. Everyone knows that Lozada doesn’t want to be arrested by the senate while he has direct contacts with Neri, Atienza and Defensor, but he feels threatened by the military/police escorts provided him, escorts that let him text and call all he want while he is being “kidnapped” (also the same escorts that brought him to his family who was at the DLSU).

Everyone now knows that he is President of an agency that has something to do with forests and everyone is also surprised to learn that he is actually a telecommunications expert (as what the Inquirer and other news organizations want everyone to believe) advising Neri on the NBN contract. Yet now we learn that he could also be a railways transportation adviser to Neri. If he is a telecom expert then, what the heck is he doing as head of a forests agency and how can he be adviser to Neri on railways transport too?

Everyone saw the poor Chinese “probinsyano” guy who is also a member of Wack wack golf club and who self-admittedly say that he is indeed one of the boys who gain from government contracts but no one can understand why he turned in on the boys this time, unless one can believe that he suddenly felt a deep love for his country.

There are just too many questions Lozada was not made to answer, questions that should have been asked him before he could even utter a word, yet our mass media put him all over the headlines, and the senate made him into their main agenda.

And with Lozada’s testimony proving to be useless and the excitement will surely wane, what the Inquirer can only do is to add pizzazz by putting in exaggerations and their own opinions disguised as news into their headlines today:

The Inquirer bannered: “Palace tied to the abduction”, obviously trying to insinuate that that is the only conclusion when they have not established the “abduction” part yet. The Inquirer said as a subtitle to the headline: “Exec feared testimony could bring GMA down” even if the news itself did not say who is the Exec who feared that the Testimony could bring GMA down (the only closest reference to the subtitle is Atienza’s words warning Lozada that his testimony could be like handing GMA to the opposition, which is by the way part of his testimony). The Inquirer also said that “GMA men gang up on Lozada: Crying Lady”, when within the article only one person referred to Lozada’s tears. The same paper also said “Senate told funds for AFP, PNP diverted” and the reader will be awestruck by what gall the Inquirer have when the same news said that this is still a part of a comment made by Lozada which he is not even “sure” and which he has not a place as a “telecommunications expert” to comment on.

There is also a frontpage piece saying “How nuns outwitted Lozada’s cop escorts” obviously trying to put a heroic twist on the nuns in the face of danger, without even saying why there are still cop escorts there when they are not doing anything to avoid media from coming in. Lastly, there is a piece about “Guava Lesson”, giving a soft heart behind the sordid face of Lozada which is purely propaganda and has not anything to do with the expose.

Sadly, this is the Inquirer we used to look up to. The Inquirer now is nothing much more than the people who distributed text messages yesterday saying there are bombs planted around the Metro meant to divert attention.

Sadly, we are all controlled by people with vicious self interests and they were not even putting GMA down. I am sure, even knowingly, they were putting the whole country down.