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In light of the confusion that ensued after an ABS-CBNnews.com story came out about University Los Baños students’ spirited reception of Vice President Jejomar BInay at their campus, the network issued an apology. We’ve reposted it below:
In our effort to provide a more comprehensive coverage of the forum, one of our writers mistook the word “sample” for “trapo.” (Coconuts Manila note: The word, “trapo,” is the shortened mash-up of the words, “traditional politician.”)
We immediately corrected this right after we were alerted about the mistake on Sep 16, 2015.
We will be taking disciplinary steps against those responsible for this oversight.
Please note that there were other articles uploaded on our website about the event, including these below, in the hope of providing other perspectives about the forum.
A UPLB student named Marco Arevalo further explained what really happened in a comment that he posted on ABS-CBNnews.com’s Facebook page: “I am a student of UPLB. I was a witness of the event above. We, the students of UPLB were not chanting ‘trapo.’ We were chanting ‘Sample’ because the open forum was preceded by an intermission number wherein some professors were singing the One Direction song ‘Night Changes.'”
