Inaccurate report refers to city as town

JEERS TO CNNPhilippines.com for inaccurately referring to Malolos as a town in two reports posted on September 16.

“Authorities probing Bulacan trainer plane crash” and “Pilot, student die in trainer plane crash in Bulacan”, both used “Malolos town” in reporting the location of Bulacan Provincial Hospital where Capt. Arthur Rebullido, one of the two pilots, was brought after the crash.

Malolos City – located some 42 kilometers north of Manila – is Bulacan’s capital city. It is the site of the 1898 constitutional convention. A plebiscite was conducted in 1999 for the conversion of the Malolos municipality into a city but it was in 2001 when it became official per MalolosCity.gov.ph.

Twitter user Jake (@toots069) caught the inaccuracy and tagged the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility.

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