Cheking loves Cris

It seems the only one paying attention to Cris Saavedra these days is Cheking Seares. Check out this BANNER STORY in today's SunStar Cebu.

Reading the banner, you'd think the story was as earthshaking as, say, Eddie Barrita disagreeing with anything Cheking Seares tells him over bottles of San Miguel Super Dry. But then you realize it's just Cris Saavedra writing a letter to Manny Villar, asking for a Senate investigation into the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC). This, after the Commission on Audit (COA) had cleared the Capitol of any irregularities relating to the CICC.

So now you realize why Cris Saavedra fancies himself a "whistleblower". SunStar is always there to give him the whistle.

And guess who wrote the article. The same reporter I wrote about earlier, the fraud who's being protected by a female editor who's so jealous of the Governor and her family that she doesn't mind appearing unprofessional in the newsroom, badmouthing them.

Yes, the same reporter who fancies himself a gun expert, although people who know him say that as a shooter, he's Saavedraesque: he shoots from the hip, and shoots from the lip, and always misses the target.

And why does Cris Saavedra seem to have a direct line to this reporter? Does Cris provide him with ammunition, both as a reporter and as a gun aficionado?

And why is this female editor protecting this reporter? Is the reporter the only one who compliments the female editor on her interesting fashion sense? ("Baby, if I could only shoot the way you dressed, nobody would mess with me.")

Stick to mediocrity

The libel charge filed this week by the city prosecutor's office against Leo Lastimosa warns us of what happens when a mediocre broadcaster tries his hand at being an incompetent writer.

Today's SunStar story about the libel charge reminds us of another mediocre SunStar writer whom one might call "self-contained". (Translation: "full of himself")

onion-skinned remembers that the Governor filed an administrative complaint against this same reporter, who engaged in fraud and misrepresentation in order to get documents from the Capitol.

Cheking Seares is still sitting on the case.

Probably because this reporter is being protected by a female editor who fills the newsroom with jealous rants against the Governor and her family. (More about her in subsequent blind items.)

Or another female editor who resents the Governor because her decisions regarding the 93-1 lots directly affect the editor's family. (More about her in subsequent blind items.)

I hear that even some reporters are biting their tongues. A reporter who gets away with fraud, and who is given a column (unusual for a reporter), reads too much like "sacred cow", and the editors' actions, smelling too much like its bodily waste.