President Aquino flanked by Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario and Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin.For reporters, President Aquino is always worth the time and effort to interview because he always says something newsworthy. Either a controversial remark (when he compared China’s aggressive activities in the South China Sea as similar to Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Czechoslovakia after they were handed Sudetenland by Great Britain) or a new information.
Reporters usually do not get that kind of candidness from more mature and prudent statesmen especially in foreign relations issues.
In other countries, they have department or ministry spokesmen, who do the talking on running issues. But President Aquino is, well, PNoy.
