Photo of Aquino Eating Draws Rebuke
The Philippine government has banned a photographer from the presidential palace after his newspaper published a photograph of President Corazon Aquino eating breakfast.
The order, by Information Minister Teodoro Locsin, who once called palace reporters during the administration of Ferdinand E. Marcos a “tame kennel of dogs,” drew a swift rebuke from Philippine Daily Inquirer Editor Luis Beltran in his column Tuesday.
Deputy Press Secretary Alice Villadolid said Manila Bulletin photographer Albert Garcia, 30, “deliberately, intentionally and willfully disregarded coverage rules” of Aquino’s trip to the southern city of Davao over the weekend.
Aquino was photographed standing at table of food in a military camp eating rice with soldiers. Palace officials had issued ground rules banning photographers from taking pictures of “what we believed to be something private,” Villadolid told a briefing Monday.
Other photographers said they had not been informed of the ground rules.
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