Deadlines and inaugurations

ONE cannot help but be amused by the kind of double-standard that has operated against the incoming government and President-elect.

There’s how certain newspapers and media outfits will use the bad photos of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte, with face contorted in disgust or anger—exactly what they did to VP Jojo Binay for a full-year before the elections. There’s the Manila news reporters trying and failing to pretend that they do not feel bad that the President-elect has stopped holding long news conferences, the ones that were exasperating, confusing, offensive, disgusting, but always highly entertaining because of their being surprisingly different, and which meant news stories to last for days.