{"id":261537,"date":"2020-07-14T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=261537"},"modified":"2025-01-17T13:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T18:44:55","slug":"no-policy-to-edit-dutertes-speech-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/14\/no-policy-to-edit-dutertes-speech-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"No policy to edit Duterte\u2019s speech: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_251451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251451\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ph-202020406-ACE-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-251451\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ph-202020406-ACE-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ph-202020406-ACE-8.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ph-202020406-ACE-8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ph-202020406-ACE-8-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ph-202020406-ACE-8-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-251451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte at the Malago Clubhouse in Malaca\u00f1ang on April 6, 2020. ACE MORANDANTE\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 There is no policy to edit President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s speech delivered in any of his scheduled activities before it can be aired on television, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHindi naman po iyan<\/em>\u00a0policy (That\u2019s not a policy). I don\u2019t think there\u2019s ever a policy in that regard,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a virtual presser, when quizzed if the government has a new policy to edit Duterte&#8217;s speech before it can be made public.<\/p>\n<p>Roque made the statement following claims that some of Duterte\u2019s remarks in Jolo, Sulu on Monday were omitted.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before soldiers in Jolo, Sulu, Duterte said he was successful in toppling an \u201coligarchy\u201d without the need to declare martial law in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Some have floated the possibility that Duterte might be referring to embattled local media giant ABS-CBN Corp. when he claimed that he was able to \u201cdismantle\u201d the oligarchy that is taking advantage of \u201cpolitical power\u201d to control the country for several years.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said he could not tell whether Duterte\u2019s speech in Jolo was edited because he was unable to join the President in a meeting with the military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Hindi ko po alam kung<\/em>\u00a0edited\u00a0<em>iyan.<\/em>\u00a0Unfortunately,\u00a0<em>hindi po ako kasama<\/em>\u00a0(I don\u2019t know if that was edited. Unfortunately, I was not there),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy avana online <a href=\"https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/avana.html\">https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/avana.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Roque, nevertheless, believed that Duterte\u2019s latest pronouncement was directed against business tycoons Lucio Tan, Manuel V. Pangilinan (MVP), and Fernando Zobel de Ayala.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI go by his prior statements.\u00a0<em>Pagdating sa<\/em>\u00a0oligarchy,<em>\u00a0palagi niyang sinasabi,<\/em>\u00a0MVP, Ayala, Lucio Tan (When he talks about oligarchy, he always mentions MVP, Ayala, and Lucio Tan),\u201d he said. \u201cHe (Duterte) must be referring to the oligarchs, which he named and he actually threatened to destroy but reconsidered.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy promethazine online <a href=\"https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/promethazine.html\">https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/promethazine.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if Duterte\u2019s entire speech can be aired on national television, Roque said the decision would be up to the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) and its attached agency, Radio Television Malaca\u00f1ang (RTVM).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u00a0<em>hindi po ako iyan<\/em>\u00a0(I cannot decide on that). That\u2019s (up to) PCOO, RTVM,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Before the country was hit by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, Duterte\u2019s speeches were usually aired live on PTV-4 and other Facebook pages controlled by the executive branch.<\/p>\n<p>However, Duterte\u2019s communications team opted to edit his public addresses, resulting in the late airing of his speeches on PTV-4 and other government webpages.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lopressor online <a href=\"https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/lopressor.html\">https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/lopressor.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Roque on April 14 promised to push for the earlier broadcast schedule of Duterte\u2019s public addresses.<\/p>\n<p>On July 9, Roque explained that Palace reporters made a request to broadcast Duterte\u2019s public address on the same day it is delivered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 There is no policy to edit President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s speech delivered in any of his scheduled activities before it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":251451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ruth-abbey-gita-carlos","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261537","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=261537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284875,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261537\/revisions\/284875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}