On mobile phone. 3hrs ago: Palace lashes out at House for blaming Cabinet for corruption and “hostaging” natl budget

Answer to WordPress Daily Prompt: On mobile phone (fun and play and work on mobile phone, i can’t help it)

Typing on mobile phone: 3 hours ago: Palace lashes out at House for blaming Cabinet for massive corruption and for holding “hostage” the national budget by suggesting that the budget proposal be returned to the Department of Budget.

News organizations across the social platforms presented this as straight news by simply posting a jpeg of the statement of the Executive Secretary. Nothing more. Now you see why the news media across the platforms is still losing audiences to independent vloggers, podcasters, and big influencers even after shifting digitally, and regularly posting and streaming across all social platforms. Keep up naman kayo. And it’s apparently a worldwide phenomenon. Here’s the jpeg that the news media posted, and nothing more — not even a punchy headline, not even an interesting lead. Keep up naman po tayo.