The main headline today (PCOS testing going well) goes well for COMELEC as it is reported that there seems to be no major problems expected for tomorrow's elections. The news did not refer to any of the candidates.
The news on tidbits in the campaign trail (REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK, Of all-star casts, time, motion and bum tummies.) got Gordon covered in both positive and negative way. Villar and his running mate Legarda was also mentioned negatively, while Aquino was positively mentioned.
The news on the candidates' final push (As thousands cheered, not 1 presidential bet lost) seems to be a continuation of yesterday's topic. It gave ample coverage to Aquino, Villar, Estrada, Teodoro, Perlas and Madrigal, while disregarding the others.
The news report on the possible vote in a Pangasinan town (No zero votes in Pangasinan town this time) turns out positive for Aquino. The news report on Sen. Pimentel's wife (Bing Pimentel: Mother and Father to her kids.) of course gave reference to daughter senatoriable Gwen but did not give reference to any of the Presidential candidates.
The other news with reference to the coming elections is the question on ownership of the election automation process and equipment provider SMARTMATIC (Obama asked: Investigate Smartmatic) thrown by a supposed Fil-Am group led by Loida Nicolas-Lewis, who was mentioned to be related to someone who worked with President Cory Aquino. It could be mentioned that the news itself follows the LP flow of campaign communication although we cannot directly say that it does so, but nevertheless can only be positive to Noynoy.
Generally, the front page today is quite neutral but gave Aquino very slight advantage. So I say favoring Aquino scores today:
Aquino: 14
Estrada: 2
Villanueva: 1
Teodoro: 1
Villar: 1
Perlas: 1
Madrigal: 1
Delos Reyes: 1
Gordon: 0
Philippine STAR! Unbiased unlike Inquirer.
ReplyDeleteFyi, Inquirer has been anti-government ever since. All it did was point out every negative thing about the government. I think it forgot that no government is perfect. Instead of helping create solutions it influences the shallow mind of Filipinos with it's negativity.With this it can be tagged as the "Inquirer - unbalanced views, pessimist views"
I am not sure about the Phil Star but some would say they are biased also. I have not monitored them though.
ReplyDeleteI felt the same way as you did about the Inquirer, they seem to be too anti-government/anti-Arroyo. They seem to be too anti-Villar also. Actually if your read my previous posts, it seems Arroyo and Villar are competing for the title "Evil" as far as the Inquirer is concerned.