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WHO: GOV. Lilia G. Pineda. What: Linking of CFZ Locators and Pampanga PESO.

When: June 7, 2019. 2:00 p.m. Where: Royce Hotel, Clark Freeport.

Open coverage to media.

As open, if not more open, was how media publicized the event with the variance in the news stories that emanated from it, all datelined Clark Freeport.

SunStar-Pampanga bannered: Pineda endorses Asyong for PCL president

Pampanga Gov. Lilia Pineda has endorsed outgoing San Luis Mayor and Councilor-Elect Venancio "Asyong" Macapagal to be the next president of the Pampanga Councilors League (PCL).

Pineda, who is the vice governor-elect of the province, made the endorsement in a meeting with officers of the Liga ng mga Barangay and Sanggunian Kabataan headed by Board Members Gabby Mutuc and Moshe Lacson at Royce Hotel Clark last Friday. 
"Mga Kapitan at mga SK kayo na ang bahala kay (Mayor) Asyong, kailangan ko siya sa Provincial Board," Pineda said…
A thoroughly political spin there. For naught, given that barangay chairs and the SKs don’t vote for the PCL president.

The occasion also reduced to a mere “meeting with officers of the Liga ng mga Barangay…” The CFZ locators, the PESO representatives, other local chief executives, much less the meat of the discussions relative to the expressed purpose of their “linking” finding no mention in the story.

iOrbit headlined: Guv cites CDC contribution to Pampanga economy

Gov. Lilia Pineda cited the Clark Development Corporation for its huge contribution to the economy of Pampanga by providing jobs to Kapampangan specifically in the ecozone’s surrounding community. 

“Tayong mga nasa Pampanga… masuwerte tayo dahil meron tayong ecozone. Tingnan nyo naman 134,584 employees… Ganun din ang mga locators na umabot na sa bilang na 1,092. Malaki ang naitutulong sa ekonomiya ng lalawigan. Hindi biru-biro ang P4.7 billion (sic) na export,” said Pineda during a forum with locators, local government officials, and provincial employment office (PESO) held at Royce Hotel and Casino here Friday. 

Dubbed as “Linking CDC Locators and Pampanga PESO”, Pineda said the forum will kickstart the collaboration between CDC and Pampanga. She urged PESO officers to help all investors within the ecozone by providing competent workers… 

Fact check: $4.6 billion exports, not P4.7 billion. Still, the numbers are impressive. All hail CDC, take a bow president-CEO Noel Manankil.

Punto! Online reported:  Gov Pineda gets Mabalacat pledge for service vehicles

…The “nanay” that she always is, Gov. Lilia Pineda has urged her apparent “eldest son” in Mabalacat City Mayor Cris Garbo to provide a vehicle each to the 21 municipalities of Pampanga. They will be primarily used for rescue operations during emergency situations and disaster operations.

“Alam nyo po ba magkano ang nakukuha ng Mabalacat sa Clark ngayon? Aabot po ng P800 million. Kaya ang pakiusap ko po kay Mayor Garbo ay tumulong siya sa ibang bayan,” Pineda said in her speech.

The “eldest” in terms of budget now, Garbo was asked by outgoing governor to provide the vehicles from the P800 million windfall Mabalacat City is getting this year in the Gross Income Earned (GIE) shares from Clark locators. Pampanga’s third and newest city now has about P2 billion annual budget.

In an employment forum Friday with Capitol officials, Pampanga mayors, provincial board members, Clark Development Corp (CDC) officials and Clark locators at Royce Hotel here, Garbo readily agreed to the request. The forum was called by Pineda to foster cooperation among CDC, LGUs and Clark locators…

Slant now on Garbo. Though tagged with many monikers, it is the first time that I saw “eldest son” appended to the mayor. Wonder who named him such.

Last, but certainly not least, Punto! Central Luzon bannered Gov bats for labor center, workers’ hospital in Clark

“That $4.6 billion speaks of the imperative for all of us to do our share to ensure and enhance productivity in this freeport.”

So cited Gov. Lilia G. Pineda of the 2018 export volume of the Clark Freeport during the “Linking of CFZ Locators and Pampanga Public Employment Service Office (PESO)” that gathered the human resources managers of locator firms, local government executives, officials of the association of barangay chairs, and municipal PESO heads at the Royce Hotel here.

“This is the start of close collaboration between Clark, its locators, the Capitol, and the local government units,” Pineda said, giving particular mention to the City of Mabalacat within which territorial jurisdiction lies a greater part of this freeport…

…To further empower the workers, Pineda said she has discussed with Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III and Clark Development Corp. president- CEO Noel Manankil the establishment of a labor center at the freeport that shall address the immediate needs of both workers and locators.

Pineda likewise extended to Clark workers her so-called “Nanay health advocacy” with her planned establishment of an extension of the Pampanga provincial hospital at the freeport.

“We are well aware of the health needs of our workers, and the high cost of hospitalization,” Pineda said. “Thus, this hospital dedicated to them with its own diagnostic center, pharmacy with tax-free medicines, and zero balance billing.”

According to the governor, the CDC has allotted a 2,000 square meter lot for the hospital.

“I already talked with (Mabalacat City) Mayor Cris Garbo for this project. He can allot budget for this from the P800 million share of the city from the gross income earned from Clark,” she said….

ONE EVENT. Four different stories with the governor as common thread. I am biased to say that the last one captured best the substance of the event. That does not in any way impugn the validity, indeed the veracity, of the others. All of them factual accounts of what actually transpired. The difference is in the peg, the slant, or the spin, if one wishes, of the news writer.

Media objectivity, uncovered right there. As in some newsmen are more objective than others. Depending on their object?