MAURO GIA SAMONTE
ON July 11, 2019, Manila Times President and CEO Dante Francis “Klink” Ang 2nd, together with Beechie Fernandez of The Daily Tribune, had an interview with President Rodrigo Roa Duterte in Malacañang. I will endeavor to make a summing up of the interview to show how Klink and Beechie had masterfully framed their questions such that the President could not but, also masterfully, craft his answers like he was delivering his State of the Nation Address (SONA) already. Although the President cautioned that he did not aim to hold that “kind of event before a SONA,” he, nonetheless, declared that he would be glad to “use idiom on the rough edges of what you would like to know…”