{"id":6409,"date":"2015-04-19T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T00:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6409"},"modified":"2015-04-19T08:30:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T00:30:38","slug":"binayaran-watchmakati-home-ville-where-lies-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/19\/binayaran-watchmakati-home-ville-where-lies-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"BINAYARAN WATCH::Makati Home Ville: Where lies the truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article tries to fact check the testimony of the witnesses but instead becomes a he said she said article.<br \/>\nIt fails to ask the right questions and instead muddies the issue.\u00a0Trash journalism.<br \/>\nLet us give a simple example of the enclosed excerpt.<br \/>\nIn the article the issue of the housing of relocation is a statement by Binay that :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 23.1818180084229px;\">\u2018Binigyan na kayo ng lupa, gusto n\u2019yo pa ng bahay?&#8221;<\/em><span style=\"color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; line-height: 23.1818180084229px;\">\u00a0(He said, &#8220;You were already given lands, you still want to be given houses?&#8221;).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article then quotes a resident:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 17px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 23.1818180084229px;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0\u201cHindi totoo \u2018yan (That\u2019s not true)!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 17px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 23.1818180084229px;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\u201cYung mga may kaya na magtayo nang sarili nila, okay lang na magtayo. Yung di kaya magtayo, lilipat sila sa pabahay,<\/em>\u00a0(Those who have the means, they may build their houses. Those who can\u2019t, will be moved to the housing units),\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The issue was how\u00a0unapologetic nay entitled Binay&#8217;s wording was. It was as if a King\/Queen was telling his subjects you are alive what more can you ask for.<br \/>\nWhile the quoted person was addressing not what was said but the options the people in Homeville had.<br \/>\nAnd the the stupid reported didn&#8217;t have the sense to ask. Where does one live for 6 months while the HomeVille housing was being constructed while you are already here in Calauan?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWTF this is probably an overmatched intern or a paid hack.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nEntitlementLani claimed, \u201cAng mga tao, takot lang magsalita. Siyempre, Binay ito. Kung paalisin sila? (The people here are just afraid to talk. Of course, this is Binay\u2019s. What if they get evicted?)\u201dTo outsiders, the relocation site is Binay Compound. But to residents, it\u2019s Makati Home Ville, and the 40-hectare property was purchased by the city government of Makati.Before the Senate committee, Edison recalled asking the Vice President about his alleged promise of providing them shelter: \u201cSabi niya, \u2018Binigyan na kayo ng lupa, gusto n\u2019yo pa ng bahay?&#8221; (He said, &#8220;You were already given lands, you still want to be given houses?&#8221;).Lopez outrightly dismissed this: \u201cHindi totoo \u2018yan (That\u2019s not true)!&#8221;\u201cYung mga may kaya na magtayo nang sarili nila, okay lang na magtayo. Yung di kaya magtayo, lilipat sila sa pabahay, (Those who have the means, they may build their houses. Those who can\u2019t, will be moved to the housing units),\u201d Zeny explained.THOSE WHO ARE ABLE. Residents with the means to build their own houses are encouraged to do so. Those who can\u2019t, will move to the housing units.The housing units in Phase 3 were completed in March 2013. But it took 4 years since the first relocatees were moved to Makati Home Ville before the housing units were finished. They weren\u2019t occupied until 6 months later.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/move-ph\/issues\/poverty\/90304-makati-home-ville-truth?utm_content=buffer42a09&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Makati Home Ville: Where lies the truth?<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article tries to fact check the testimony of the witnesses but instead becomes a he said she said article. It fails to ask the right questions and instead muddies the issue.\u00a0Trash journalism. Let us give a simple example of the enclosed excerpt. In the article the issue of the housing of relocation is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/19\/binayaran-watchmakati-home-ville-where-lies-the-truth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BINAYARAN WATCH::Makati Home Ville: Where lies the truth?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,65,66,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-philippines","category-politics","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}