If he had his way, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque prefers to delay the airing of President Duterte’s taped weekly public address the following morning. Presidential Spokesperson Atty. Harry Roque (Jansen Romero / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Roque however
If he had his way, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque prefers to delay the airing of President Duterte’s taped weekly public address the following morning.Roque however claimed that some Palace journalists requested for the airing of the President’s address to the nation within the day as much as possible.
The senator’s appeal was made after the President’s taped public address from Davao City last Tuesday was aired on state television close to 1 a.m. Wednesday. Prior to the broadcast, Roque tweeted a photo of the President shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday with the caption “PRRD addressing the nation now.”
“Pero actually, nanggaling sa ilang miyembro ng Malacañang Press Corps na gusto nila same night i-broadcast kasi marami pala sa mga taga-Malacañang Press Corps mas gusto nilang magpuyat kaysa gumising nang maaga, so kaya naman napagbibigyan po. ,” he said.When GMA-7 reporter Joseph Morong asked why the President’s speech was being edited by the Palace in the first place and if it was possible to just air the address live, Roque told him to let it be.
Morong however insisted on the release of the President’s speech on the same day it is delivered for public information. “If it happened today, why don’t we have to report it today—eh why do we have to wait until morn? If you don’t edit, we won’t have the problem,” the reporter said.
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