Slow news day

Jeers to the Manila Bulletin for wasting newspaper space with a story on a “perplexed” President Benigno Aquino III over a Math problem he received through text.

The July 11 report (published online on July 10) titled “‘Missing peso mystery’ baffles Aquino”, showed the media’s weakness during slow news days.

It reported Aquino’s speech during the anniversary celebration of an accounting firm about an old SMS-passed Math problem he received. When he could not answer the riddle, he had Finance Sec. Cesar Purisima solve it for him.

The report, published on p. 6 in the print edition, went on to quote how Aquino was “glad” for appointing Purisima as finance secretary who demonstrated his skills in Math by solving the Math problem.

One reader said online, “Oh my, what a news (report). And it’s in the headlines!”

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