Scoundrels in media

Ping De Jesus's replacement at the corruption-prone Department of Transportation & Communication should be a man of impeccable integrity. One of the personalities President Benigno Aquino III should look is Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza. His sterling records in government service speak for themselves. He left the Arroyo Administration as a cabinet secretary because he could not stomach the intramurals and corruptions there.

One week after the submission of the irrevocable written resignation by Ping, undersecretaries Dante (our kabaleyan), Glicerio Sicat, and Ruben Reynoso have followed suit by resigning in mass, too.

Would these three posts vacant for politically unemployed province and city mates’ former Pangasinan governor Victor Agbayani, and former Dagupan City mayor Al Fernandez?

It bode well for Pangasinenses to see kabaleyan who belong to the Liberal Party lost in the last year election.

Just imagine if Dagupan City Mayor Benjie S. Lim and Pangasinan Governor Amado T. Espino lost last year.

They would have a China man’s chance to be appointed after the one year ban for losing bets.

But thank God, they won.

Now, its buy one takes two for us.

Benjie and Espines for the local scene.

Al and Victor for the national scence.

In short, a scintillating scene for Pangalatoks.

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Media man Rannie Manaois exposed in his column Medialante the alleged swindling activity of fellow media man Atong Remogat. Rani wrote in the vernacular that Atong pocketed P30 thousand that Bugallon Mayor Ric Orduna, Atong’s boss at the Presidents’s Office of the Pangasinan Mayors’ League, donated to a Bikini Fashion Show  in San Carlos City.

So, what’s new with the Pangasinan media. It is an organization abounds with scoundrels, hypocrites, extortionist, and estafador.

Even female members compete immorally and criminally with their male counterparts.

Have you heard a media woman running with thousands of pesos of media monies given by elective officials like congressmen in a certain city?

Have you heard media women living with another woman’s husband?

Have you heard an old lousy male announcer running with the money given by a mayor of Malasiqui when his companion, a newspaper columnist, was still interviewing the mayor?

Have you heard an old media man cutting the share of unwary colleagues who covered a particular big time politico?

Have your heard about a media official moralizing about the immorality in the media, but his actuations do not speak for himself?

Have you heard about a PR man of another big time official who pretends that no monies were given by his benefactor in an event –so that he could pocket some and give some to those media men who are loyal to him?

My Gaaaad, I got a lot of adverse stories for them that this column could not accommodate to narrate.