Noy’s three tumors
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The other side of the coin in the saying two or more heads are better than one, which Noynoy’s aides have bruited about in making a case for the many-headed communications office in Malacañang, is too many cooks spoil the broth.
Add to that a new saying, which is the chief cook spoils the broth some more.
Both the critics and allies of Noynoy trace his recent dipping survey ratings from the consistent ineffectiveness of the communications team, which has Sonny Coloma, Ricky Carandang and Edwin Lacierda holding Cabinet-rank positions for overlapping functions.
Three chefs and no sous-chefs ever goes well and worse, the master chef can’t even provide any direction for the entire cooking class.
Critics are having a heyday over Noynoy’s dipping popularity since whatever their colors were in the past, the general incompetence being shown by Noynoy as a leader and his equally incompetent administration is making them look good.
But his allies are shaking their heads since they cannot but agree with the view that the many-headed freak in Malacañang should largely be blamed for Noynoy’s fall from grace with the public. It also is another way of their protecting him from charges leveled against Noynoy’s incompetence and ineptitude. Like Noynoy, his allies prefer to lay all blame solely on the three headed hydra known as the Palace communications group. And they deserve the blame. But why just them?
There were many tell-tale signs on the acceptance, even in Noynoy on the lack of the communications team to communicate. Of course, the best argument against criticisms that nothing is happening under his administration is to show that things do happen but Noynoy blamed the lack of communicating the achievements of his administration for his sliding ratings. Still, one has to ask: What solid achievements?
Coming from Noynoy who seems to have a high tolerance for inefficiency when it’s coming from his allies is saying a lot.
Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III said plainly that the information team is ineffective.
Early on, in appointing three communications chief, it was being claimed that one would be making use of the “new media” which usage is hardly effective, as only the Noynoy devotees and supporters buy it.
Even that Facebook for feedback purposes plan was a dud, given the fact that the communications group censored criticial remarks against Noynoy.
The communications team had a lot of form, since Noynoy needed to accomodate three heads sprouting from it, but no substance at all as the news media, which get to experience their performance first hand, do not even get a systematic way for the flow of news from the Palace.
The personalities in the Palace seem to have their own publicists who interact with the media while Noynoy’s communications group is limited to dishing out frequently conflicting statements to a confused Malacañang press corps.
Despite their claim of having distinct functions within the communications group, the three usually end up jostling to give an interview with reporters.
Worse, the unyieldy set up in the communications group ends up in one head rebutting the statement of the other which is similar to the caricature of head buttings in a multiple-headed monster.
The failure of the communications group to learn to communicate among each other is, in turn, largely the result of their being from one of the multiple factions within Noynoy’s circle.
Thus, the focus of the three outgrowths in the Palace seems how to outdo each other rather than make a good case out of the already ineffective Noynoy.
So the vicious cycle of an ineffective head placing his fate in the hands of three inefficient underlings becomes so obvious.
Bad for Noynoy, good for his critics.
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