THE ABS-CBN CAN'T SQUEEZE BLOOD OUT OF A TURNIP

In the Senate hearing yesterday, February 24, 2020, the abs-cbn stalwarts recited a litany of stories and nodded by their cohort’s senators about their supposed benevolence that benefited the public. Of course, if your company is facing death close to its breadth and getting to the end of life, you will do anything and say everything that sounds well for the Jury.

Anyhow, what the abs-cbn stalwarts are doing is cheery as they thought. But the reality is their words and persistent blowing their own horn have no meaning than just a column of wind-whipped smoke; it sits still and cold and it only whispers all the same because the Filipinos knew beforehand they are just living in a fantasy world.

More than that, these stories which are self-serving are irrelevant, impertinent, and immaterial to the merits of the key issue determinable that is whether or not their franchise will be renewed. Therefore, the stories had a ring of desperation and defeat.

The issue of abs-cbn is so immense that it can’t be grasped in its entirety. Therefore, it has to be grasped in its specificity, image by image, fact by fact, and what becomes interesting is to see the specifics within its larger context.

I think the difficult thing for people to grapple with emotionally about the abs-cbn is how could a broadcasting company which owes its franchise to the government be so hated and seen as so one-sided, bias, double-crosser against the Duterte government who had come to represent not only excellence but hope for the country and its citizens. Thus, the majority of the Congressmen had come to the conclusion that it had to be eliminated from the face and memories of broadcasting.

The Congressmen have either lost confidence that the abs-cbm is fair and impartial, or that they have concluded it is single-minded just focused on destroying the duly elected President. The abs-cbn’s rendition of its duty was unimaginable and even if it involves using syntax and all of the knowledge in the inside that humanity had in order to understand it, it would always remain incomprehensible.