WORLD BANK DISOWNS ANTI-CORONA REPORT!

Here’s solid proof of how DIRTY, MALICIOUS and EXPENSIVE is the campaign to oust Chief Justice Renato Corona.

The World Bank denied yesterday, Monday, that it was the source of a newspaper headline about a report on the Supreme Court’s Judicial Reform Support Project (JRSP) and its supposed dissatisfaction on the implementation of the project.

The story was a front page headline of the Phil. Daily Inquirer and came out on the same day with three full-page anti-Corona ads worth more or less P1 million.

The World Bank denial is now in the website of the Manila Buletin, mb.com.ph.

Erika Leann Lacson-Esguerra, program assistant for external relations, said the bank did not release to the media a supposed memo regarding the “unsatisfactory” progress of the high court’s loanm and that any official statement will be posted online (www.worldbank.org.ph).

Therefore, the supposed report which was leaked to the Inquire was UNOFFICIAL AND UNAUTHORIZED.

Still, someone STOLE the report and gave it to the newspaper just to have something to further DEMONIZE Corona. Never mind if the material was STOLEN in the first place!

So why should anyone n his or her RIGHT MIND still believe that the effort to oust Corona is totally fair, IMPARTIAL and the people’s will as claimed by the government and the prosecution?

ROBBERS, THIEVES and people who can’t play fair and square deserve no respect and credibility in a civil society. Anyone who tolerates, or orders individuals like these to carry out their immoral deeds are WORSE THAN THEM.

A lot of our friends continue to reassure me that the Filipino people are smart enough. I agree 1001 percent. But please, let’s prove this by action whenever we have to.

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From our readers:

EXPECT UNFAIR REPORTING FROM ABS-CBN!

KEITH HARCOURT of Vienna, Austria

ABS-CBN is an adjunct of Malacanañg!

KABSATMO FELIX

Depende yan kung sino ang nagkukuwento. There is a version of the hunter and the version of the hunted. Ilahad nila both. Diskarte na ng bumabasa, People are not that stupid. Lalabas at lalabas ang katotohanan no matter how they mask it Truth will always prevail.

MOMORO SIMBULAN of Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija

Well said, Boyet! Ganyan talaga ABiaS-CBN.

GRACE ANYAYAHAN

Kaya nga A-BIAS CBN ang tawag diyan. Ang importante, yung nasa ITAAS ang kakampi natin.

ISABEL JUICO

In God we trust  Boycott! Change the channel! We need to go viral!

DOLLY PALISADA

Why can't people understand that news is news? Karen Davila's first guest interviewed (over the phone) after the trial is CJ Corona's lawyer-- Atty Salvador. Please be fair also in your opinion. Sometimes we don't know about everything. Better not to prejudge right away. Not everyone in ABSCBN is practicing unfair reporting or are being dictated on by the owner 

A reader who asked to be called only as ERWIN

Ganda ng bagong kong T-shirt. Noon: Ninoy di ka nagiisa.
Ngayon, Pnoy  di ka nag iisip.

GEMMIELY ONG

Boycott ABS-CBN!

LETTY ARCILLA

Kaya nga tinawag na A-BIAS CBN eh!

RODEL RAMIL of Kowloon City, Hong Kong

Anticipated na iyan, Sir Boyet. Asa pa tayo.

AKO SI KHY

So please refrain from watching ABS.

DEL DIMENSION

Stop buying Inquirer, too!

KEN ANGELO TORRE of Makati

Affirmative, sir!

ELLE BULLO of Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ang report ng Abs-Cbn ay pareho ng report ng GMA at ABC. So. lahat pala ng istasyon, unfair? Tingnan mo sa Internet, di ba pareho mga balita nila? Ang kaso, medyo broadened lang ang sa ABS.

ANONYMOUS

Is this a sign of the times? Justices and judges are being denied justice. 

ANONYMOUS

Too subjective. It did not convince me that much.

SOLID EXAMPLE OF ANTI-CORONA BRAINWASHING

GEOFF DELOS SANTOS

Flip-flopping of the Supreme Court is not only Corona's blunder but of all those in the SC. I think they should all be fired and replaced.

RODERICK ORALLO

Too early to tell. Trial has yet to commence.

VELZKI

The anti Corona campaign is very strong because our president is leading it. I am calling on the Filipino people to wake up and stand up against the lies of this present administration and expose whatever doubtful data will be presented. Let us not allow them to hold us by the neck and trample on the Constitution and our rights 

ANONYMOUS

Hi, Boyet. Obviously, the people behind the campaign to oust Corona will do everything and anything to discredit him. They are desperate! Para nga naman kahit hindi sila manalo legally, the Filipino people will always remember Corona as one of those corrupt officials. At least nga naman, kahit papaano masatisfy nila ang ego nila. Character assassination man lang manalo sila. 

DRILON, PANGILINAN, ESCUDERO SHOULD INHIBIT!

NIKKO MAHOR

Iin terms of impartiality, i think Chiz (Escudero) will not be easily persuaded to tow the President's line na ganun ganun na lang. For one, hindi naman uto-uto si Chiz  gaya ng ibang kongresista. 

JOE VERA

These Pnoy Senate minions are so thick-faced that there is no way they will inhibit themselves from the impeachment trial. However, I am sure there are a substantial number of honorable senators who will carry the day for the CJ. To cite a few, Sen. Santiago who will not trade her honor for a pork barrel, Sen. Enrile who is on the way out and the only legacy he will leave behind is an untarnished name and   Senators Angara and Joker Arroyo. . 

DON’T BE BRAINWASHED DURING CORONA IMPEACH TRIAL

GERALDINE

I totally agree on this. I believe that CJ Corona is innocent. I think the root of this brouhaha is vengeance because the Supreme Court gave an order that Hacienda Luisita must be distributed to the farmers. The Filipino people should read this and must open their minds.30

SOLID EXAMPLE OF ANTI-CORONA BRAINWASHING1

Here’s a good example of how detractors of Chief Justice Renato Corona are DESPERATELY trying to brainwash us through media.

And of how media can conveniently forget fair or balanced reporting whenever it wants to. JUDGE FOR YOURSELVES, ladies and gentlemen. Read everything first before you do.

The front-page headline of today’s Inquirer is about questionable details of a $21.9-million loan granted by the World Bank to the Supreme Court.

Take note, people:

The World Bank approved the loan in 2003 to assist the borrower in developing a more effective and accessible judiciary, a brainchild of then Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr.

Reynato Puno succeeded Davide as Chief Justice until Renato Corona assumed office in 2010 or some SEVEN YEARS after the loan was granted.

But take note, people, the Inquirer DID NOT ask Davide or Puno for comment, even if the loan was ALREADY IN USE long before Corona became Chief Justice.

Neither did Inquirer say anything to show that the term of Davide and Puno was 100 percent clean so the two need not be asked to comment.

The Inquirer report admitted that loan result indicators depict achievements in several areas.

But it DID NOT CITE the achievements. However, it came out with COMPLETE  DETAILS on supposedly questionable transactions using the loan.

The Inquirer said according to the World Bank, since Corona assumed his post in mid-2010 progress in reforming the judiciary has been rated unsatisfactory, and that there have been, among others, “inaccurate/incomplete information” on financial management reports and “diminished existing internal check-and-balance mechanism.”

But Inquirer did not cite who was/were in-charge of everything cited by the World Bank. Inquirer DID NOT GET the side of any other officer of the Supreme Court.

Not even Justice Midas Marquez, the Supreme Court spokesman and administrator who was obviously referred to in some supposedly questionable aspects of the story even if he was not directly named.

Inquirer cited what the World Bank report described as ineligible” purchases like the printing supply of the Court Reporter’s Case Index, purchase of laptop computers, speaker’s fee for seminars, registration fee of JUSTICES (take note people, plural, not just one justice) attending international conferences and foreign travels of JUSTICES  and their staff.

But Inquirer did not cite who were the other justices, or who were the ones who made and approved the requests.  Neither did the newspaper indicate any effort it had done to find out the personalities concerned.

I’m a former senior editor of the Journal Group of Publications, a nationally-circulated newspaper, ladies and gentlemen. 

Unless it has been changed, one rule every newspaperman, or every media man is bound to follow, is to get the SIDE of everyone involved and all the missing details of a story FIRST before you come out with it in print.

But Inquirer got a brief comment from Corona only yesterday, a Saturday and with offices closed, after the last novena for him at the Supreme Court grounds.

And last but definitely not THE LEAST, along with the story, THREE FULL-PAGE ADVERTISEMENTS worth almost P1 million appeared today in Inquirer.

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