{"id":149724,"date":"2018-01-30T02:44:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T07:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=149724"},"modified":"2018-01-30T02:44:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T07:44:19","slug":"pcoo-gaffes-have-no-malicious-intent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/30\/pcoo-gaffes-have-no-malicious-intent\/","title":{"rendered":"PCOO gaffes have \u2018no malicious intent\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89177\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Press-Secretary-Martin-Andanar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89177\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Press-Secretary-Martin-Andanar.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Secretary Martin Andanar (Photo by ACE MORANDANTE\/PPD)\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Press-Secretary-Martin-Andanar.jpg 620w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Press-Secretary-Martin-Andanar-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar (Photo by ACE MORANDANTE\/PPD)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8211;<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar on Tuesday admitted that his agency had made mistakes in the past but stressed that these mistakes had no \u201cmalicious intent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andanar made this remark during the second Senate panel hearing on fake news noting that the mistakes should not be the sole basis of the PCOO\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have made mistakes in the past and we have been held accountable for them. But these were honest mistakes with no intention to malign anybody and with no malicious intent,\u201d Andanar said in his speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese should not overshadow or speak for the work of thousands in government who work tirelessly to provide the public the right and useful information,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Andanar also told the committee that the agency should not be judged on the personal blog ran by its Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we judge PCOO based on Mocha\u2019s blog, I think it\u2019s also unfair for thousands of workers of government media who work so hard para po lumakas ang ating plataporma (to strengthen our platform),\u201d Andanar said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the PCOO and its attached agencies including the People\u2019s Television Network, Philippine Information Agency, Philippine News Agency, among others should be the basis of the agency\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mocha Blog does not represent PCOO. Ang ating iba\u2019t ibang media platforms ang opisyal na government platform. Ito ang dapat basehan ng scorecard ng PCOO (Our various media platforms are the government\u2019s official platforms),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Andanar, meanwhile, assured the PCOO and its attached agencies and the over 1,000 employees would continue to work very hard to communicate and promote the government\u2019s programs and policies.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Committee on Public Information and Mass Media hearing is ongoing as of posting time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8211;&#8211;\u00a0Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar on Tuesday admitted that his agency had made mistakes in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":89177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[45148,11266,11044],"class_list":["post-149724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-malicious-intent","tag-martin-andanar","tag-pcoo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}