Veteran journalist, rabid Arroyo apologist

What’s columnist Rigoberto Tiglao’s beef against Pulse Asia? Is he frothing at the mouth simply because it reported the truth that one in every two Filipinos considers his former Malacañang confrere Renato Corona guilty of culpable violation of the Constitution, betrayal of public trust and graft and corruption?

I expected more from Tiglao, a veteran journalist. But judging from his recent commentaries in your paper, he has turned into a rabid Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo apologist.

Tiglao now accuses Pulse Asia of using its surveys as propaganda tools. But did Tiglao, when he was still Arroyo’s spokesperson, chief of the Presidential Management Staff and press secretary, not milk Pulse Asia’s survey findings that were favorable to her administration for all their worth?

The trouble with Tiglao is that he refuses to accept the reality that Arroyo’s time has come and gone. With Arroyo under hospital detention and some of her officials charged with plunder and electoral sabotage, the skeletons in the Arroyo administration’s closet are being unraveled one by one. Maybe President Aquino’s anticorruption campaign should also look into the allegations of overseas Filipino workers against Tiglao during his stint as Philippine ambassador to Greece.

—SHYRIL CHLOE QUIROD,

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