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Why this government continues to operate three television networks can only be seen as a sure sign of deep insecurity and paranoia. The government had been entertaining the delusion that they can balance adverse publicity and coverage by operating RPN-9, IBC-13 and NBN-4 (formerly PTV).

These national networks had been used to the hilt to broadcast government propaganda and defensive false information but all three had not even managed to attract decent enough audience ratings that could be useful in neutralizing or reversing negative coverage about bad governance, scandals and misdeeds of government officials and their closest kin.

The combined total rating points of RPN, IBC and NBN news and public affairs programs do not even amount to a fifth of the rating points of the news and public affairs programs of ABS-CBN, GMA Network, ABC and ANC. ANC news and public affairs alone enjoys far greater viewership and credibility than RPN, IBC and NBN.

The government misses the whole point: news media do not invent stories. They merely cover and mirror the mess government creates. Instead of heavily subsidizing window-dressing media operations through these networks, the government should use the money to improve education.

Legislators are similarly remiss in their job by not questioning the continued waste of public funds used to operate the three government-operated TV networks. To begin with, government has no business spending public funds on RPN and IBC which are sequestered networks.

Up to the time of President Fidel V. Ramos, these two networks had not been funded by government. But under the Arroyo regime, these two sequestered networks came into dire straits and could only co... More..

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