During a meeting of Filipino-Americans in Los Angeles, California, a correspondent from Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) asked a question to Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar on his thoughts if the people still reading inside pages of a newspaper.
She said that Mr. Andanar still works as a columnist in a newspaper where his article placed inside pages so he knows that someone still reading it.
Secretary Andanar told the PDI Correspondent that on the internet, many people only read the headline and not the whole content of the news that made many confusion to the people.
When Andanar asked about the numbers of circulation of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the PDI Correspondent said that she don’t have the exact number, but she claims that the newspaper where she belongs is the largest newspaper company in the Philippines.
But the Andanar’s respond is quite shocking and he told the correspondent that “Manila Bulletin is the largest” newspaper in the Philippines.
The shocking response of Andanar made some Fil-Ams laugh and the others defended the answer of Andanar to the correspondent.
After that, the correspondent moved to another question about the Duterte administration’s stand on Trump Administration’s anti-illegal immigrant policies.
The next person who asked question to Andanar was Filipina-American and former actress G-Toengi who questioned the credentials of Mocha Uson as MTRCB Board Member
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Last week, a group of journalists blasts Andanar after he said that some headlines about the statement of President Rodrigo Duterte about Martial is quite misleading.
They said that the Secretary must read not only the headline but also the whole content of the news.
