{"id":58554,"date":"2015-08-10T11:49:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T03:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=58554"},"modified":"2025-03-09T20:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T00:59:23","slug":"ex-chief-justice-spin-doctors-distort-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/10\/ex-chief-justice-spin-doctors-distort-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Chief Justice: \u2018Spin doctors\u2019 distort truth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Chief Justice Reynato Puno speaking at a U.P. Law alumni homecoming
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MANILA \u2013 With the national elections nearing, former Chief Justice Reynato Puno cautioned the public against \u2018spin doctors\u2019 who \u2018bury the truth\u2019 by giving favorable information to the media biased to their preferred presidential candidates.<\/p>\n

Puno noted that the rich Filipinos became richer while still a lot of poor Filipinos remained poor in the last five years; and choosing the succeeding president to \u2018save\u2019 the suffering masses apparently has been influenced by these spin doctors.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs always in these kinds of political exercises, the first victim of spin doctors is the truth,\u201d he said in a forum with religious and civil society leaders.<\/p>\n

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Puno blamed the large scale of inequality between the rich and the poor to the \u2018stale and outmoded 1987 Constitution\u2019 wherein power has been centralized to the administration positioned in Metro Manila.<\/p>\n

For him, power should not be centralized but should be distributed to all sectors so that there is assurance that all voices will be heard in the national government.<\/p>\n

The former Chief Justice then sought support for a constitutional amendment to change the government and shift power from a president to a parliament as he believed that this would solve the Philippines\u2019 problems.<\/p>\n

He wanted to \u2018tell the people the real reason why leaders have failed to solve [the country\u2019s] stubborn problems for more than 100 years now\u2026 and we are still counting.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the meantime, our senses are bombarded with the images of presidential wannabes \u2013 each one given a beauty parlor treatment by paid media practitioners\u2026 Their drumbeaters go to town announcing to people that a new savior has come to rescue them from all imaginable curses of our society,\u201d Puno said.<\/p>\n

\u201cExcept for the daily doses of praise releases, none of the wannabes has informed the people about their particular program of governance and why they qualify as our new saviors,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Puno also stressed the spin doctors\u2019 active role by citing President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III\u2019s sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA) and Vice President Jejomar \u201cJojo\u201d Binay\u2019s \u2018True\u2019 SONA.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe listened to the State of the Nation Address of our President on July 27\u2026 As it happens every year, the political opposition tried to denigrate his achievement, especially his philosophy of \u2018daang matuwid\u2019 (staright path).<\/p>\n

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Last Monday, the Vice President delivered his own SONA\u2026 also to dismiss the achievements of the Aquino administration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe spin doctors of both political [camps] are still busy distorting the meanings and nuances of both the SONA and the counter-SONA,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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