Defying President Duterte’s call for honest polls

BEFORE the headline topic, a comment about another leader and her election issues. Former presidents Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Joseph Estrada and Donald Trump were cited in a recent business paper’s column on impeachment.

The Arroyo reference shows how media narratives tend to stick, even to the detriment of truth. The article claimed that wiretapped phone conversations “indicated that Arroyo was asking the election official to rig the election.”