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CDC press center bows out
Feb 09, 2010
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CLARK FREEPORT – Founded during the term of Clark Development Corp. (CDC) second president Romeo David in the 1990’s and surviving through all his successors, the CDC Press Center has bowed out, although sans any official notice.
For two weeks now, the CDC press center has remained without electricity, a situation that members of the local press has taken as a “subtle way” to close the facility housed in a room at the western end of a one-story building at the CDC complex here.
Earlier, the CDC came out with a press release saying the lot where the press center is located has been leased out to the Philippine Veterans Bank which will reportedly demolish the existing structure there to give way to a new building.
Neither personnel from the CDC maintenance department nor from the public affairs department could give any information on why power supply was withdrawn from the center, prompting some local journalists to theorize it was part of the plan of the CDC management to “clear” the area already committed to the PVB.
“The CDC has the prerogative to do so and it was merely out of beneficence that the state firm established the press center in the first place,” said journalist Ding Cervantes who has been manning the press center almost on daily basis before the power shut down.
For lack of funds for rental costs, some local media groups such as the Pampanga Press Club and the local chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), have been using the CDC press center for its mailing address. Every now and then, the press center also served as venue for meetings of local media folk.
Local NUJP chairman Ashley Manabat said, however, that the Capampangans in Media, whose officers and members are mostly based in Metro Manila, will be given a headquarters in one of the so-called barn houses in the CDC complex and that the organization plans to eventually open it as media center for the use of local legitimate media persons.
–NUJP-Pampanga
For two weeks now, the CDC press center has remained without electricity, a situation that members of the local press has taken as a “subtle way” to close the facility housed in a room at the western end of a one-story building at the CDC complex here.
Earlier, the CDC came out with a press release saying the lot where the press center is located has been leased out to the Philippine Veterans Bank which will reportedly demolish the existing structure there to give way to a new building.
Neither personnel from the CDC maintenance department nor from the public affairs department could give any information on why power supply was withdrawn from the center, prompting some local journalists to theorize it was part of the plan of the CDC management to “clear” the area already committed to the PVB.
“The CDC has the prerogative to do so and it was merely out of beneficence that the state firm established the press center in the first place,” said journalist Ding Cervantes who has been manning the press center almost on daily basis before the power shut down.
For lack of funds for rental costs, some local media groups such as the Pampanga Press Club and the local chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), have been using the CDC press center for its mailing address. Every now and then, the press center also served as venue for meetings of local media folk.
Local NUJP chairman Ashley Manabat said, however, that the Capampangans in Media, whose officers and members are mostly based in Metro Manila, will be given a headquarters in one of the so-called barn houses in the CDC complex and that the organization plans to eventually open it as media center for the use of local legitimate media persons.
–NUJP-Pampanga
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