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Let Meralco defend itself, ABS-CBN
This pertains to the raging row
between GSIS and Meralco which boils down to the issue of a
power utiltity’s accountability to its captive market which
absorbs all the cost of its operation with the guarantee of profits.
Round the clock, ABS-CBN breaks the news first, always giving
comprehensive account of the news, taking all sides of each story.
ABS-CBN has always been consistent on that aspect—whether it is
reporting about the men and women walking at the corridors of power
or men and women on the street.
But there is always something
wrong when ABS-CBN is reporting about its sister company, the Manila
Electric Company (Meralco).
How come ABS-CBN is not as
objective as it has always been when chronicling the sins of the
country’s biggest electricity distribution company? We
believe, ABS-CBN was grossly unfair when it decided to downplay
findings in both the Senate and House of Representatives that
Meralco had cheated and shortchanged its customers many times in
many ways the past so many years.
We ask, must its affiliation get
in the way of its better judgment? ABS-CBN and Meralco are
sister companies, but Meralco is Meralco and ABS-CBN is ABS-CBN.
Each has its own mandate. Let Meralco defend itself, but ABS-CBN
must report the news about Meralco with as much passion when
reporting other stories.
ABS-CBN owes this to all who it
considers “KAPAMILYA.” Salamat po.
Willie Espiritu
Secretary, Aeropark Village Homeowners Association
Parañaque City
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