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'It’s a hostage situation. Hopefully there are right-minded senators or Supreme Court justices who could take down the hostage-takers.'
after promising to let it operate beyond the expiration of its franchise on May 5, to Solicitor General Jose Calida who had pressured the NTC to do so, and to media groups and fellow lawmakers who condemned the network’s abrupt closure.
The thing with Cayetano is he often does a bad job in countering the narrative when it goes against him, to the point of going to war against facts and timelines. He shouldn’t be surprised if no one takes his call for unity seriously when in the same breath he uses the divisive labels “dilawan” and “DDS” to address the public.
These issues don’t really wash and the same things could be said of ABS-CBN’s rivals. GMA and TV5 have had their own share of labor issues, and no country in the free world would shut down a TV network over election news. Not even Donald Trump would pull the plug on CNN for repeatedly exposing him as unfit for the Oval Office during the 2016 US election.
There are also corners of the archipelago that could only be reached by ABS-CBN’s broadcast signals and have lost access to the news needed to keep people informed amid the COVID-19 pandemic and entertainment to while the quarantine away. This was the same ABS-CBN that got nothing in return after agreeing to broadcast Cayetano’s Southeast Asian Games hosting, and inviting him and other members of the Cayetano clan as special guests to its New Year 2020 countdown at Bonifacio Global City.
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