Two questions: On ADB’s poverty guess and Gov’t takeover of Meralco

I received text messages from two young journalist colleagues, and I’d like to answer them in this column.

First was a request to comment on the news item titled, “ADB: Soaring food prices may send 8.85 million Pinoys to poverty.” He had no idea what the accompanying story said, and unfortunately I have no access to the ADB website at this time to find out what it actually said. In any case, a headline and an accompanying story do not necessarily say the same thing, as I have often discovered. But one thing is sure: The operative word in that quote is the word “may.”