While The Times, thanks to our Senior Reporter Jomar Canlas, scooped all the other papers about the High Court deciding the DAP to be unconstitutional and illegal, the media that have been serving as cheering squads of the Aquino administration and the Liberal Party’s ruling coalition have tried to downplay the gravity of the decision. They have mostly stressed that, as the Court spokesman said, the justices have only “partially” granted the petitioners’ plea.

But the honorable Theodore Te did also say that the Supreme Court justices granted the “meat” of the nine petitions.