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The Undersecretary of the PCOO, Lorraine Marie Badoy. (File photo from INQUIRER.net)
MANILA, Philippines – CNN Philippines “strongly opposes the misguided and baseless allusion” by Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) to her alleged ties to organizations that are “known fronts” of the Communist Party of The Philippines, the New People’s Army and the National Democratic Front, generally collectively referred to as the CPP-NPA-NDF.
CNN issued a statement Saturday in reaction to Badoy’s Facebook post on Friday: “CNN tweeting and retweeting the call for donations from LFS, known as the CPP-NPA-NDF terrorist… What about CNN? Is it true that there is an LFS / CEGP cell within CNN? “
LFS and CEGP represent, respectively, the League of Filipino Students and the Guild of University Publishers of the Philippines.
CNN tweeting and retweeting the call for donations from LFS, a known front of the terrorist CPP NPA NDF.Wassup, CNN ?? 👿Is it true that there is an LFS / CEGP cell inside CNN? 👿👿👿
Posted by Lorraine Marie T. Badoy on Thursday, Nov 12, 2020
In reaction, CNN Philippines said: “We believe that the back-to-back storms that ravaged our country serve as an opportunity to rise from the ruins and practice the Filipino spirit of Bayanihan in any capacity we can, rather than dabble in the red. labeling that will only sow disunity. “
READ: Official statement from CNN Philippines on comments on social media by PCOO’s New Media Under Secretary Lorraine Marie T. Badoy. https://t.co/sDo55hwVGt pic.twitter.com/OJHCGbWgip
– CNN Philippines (@cnnphilippines) November 14, 2020
The media team noted that LFS was not the only group included in its Twitter thread for donation drives.
“Our Twitter thread included relief assistance initiated by Caritas Manila, Kaya Natin PH, Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan, student organizations from UP Diliman, UP Manila, UP Los Baños, and Ateneo de Manila University, among others,” CNN Philippines said.
Badoy, who is also a spokesperson for the National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), has recently clashed with members of the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives.
Lawmakers had called for his resignation for labeling them red.
Badoy declined the call, saying she “did not mislead the Filipino people.”
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