Maybe he has not. Otherwise, he wouldn't have erupted into last Tuesday's rage when he criticized Cebu media in a harsh and sweeping attack on the way journalists did their job.
Ray Rene said Cebu media is biased, publishes judgment not news, and suppresses the election officers' side.
But his outburst was a shotgun blast. Why should he badmouth the entire Cebu media for the errors, if any, of one or two, OK, a few? And why should judgment be based only on one incident of the election, not on most of the media coverage?
That arrest
Ray Rene brings up charges that are serious yet can't be looked into because there are no specifics.
He behaves like a politico. Politicians call media unfair when what it prints or airs hurts them, complaining the story took their line out of context or distorted it, crying bias or error.
Media is the favorite whipping boy when things go wrong for a public official or his office. And so much can go wrong to Comelec whose credibility has been repeatedly tested and found wanting.
In the Cebu elections, it wasn't until the "citizen's arrest" of Bogo canvassers last Saturday that election officers were stung.
They were floored, dumbfounded, confused: totally. They didn't expect their "sin," alleged or perceived, could be so dramatically highlighted with a legal nicety like citizen's arrest.
It took them until Tuesday to react fully---with a blistering assault on Cebu media.
