FRANCISCO S. TATAD
FRANCISCO S. TATAD

AN apparently “well-rested” President Rodrigo Duterte received the visiting Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Patrushev, in Davao last Thursday, but thanks to the presidential spokesman’s rather clumsy statement, there is, yet again, some speculation about the President’s whereabouts during the last three days he was out of TV camera range. In keeping with the new standards of Philippine journalism, no major newspaper or TV network ever bothered to find out, on their own, exactly where the President was and exactly what he did; they merely quoted what the Palace spokesman said, without analyzing what was being said.

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