Two topics for today's newsletter. First: My column on the continuing communications dysfunction in the Robredo campaign, which is blessed by very active, creative, and dedicated volunteers; but their efforts are retail politics (person-to-person) which is an adjunct to the bigger, wholesale, aspect of the campaign, which means messaging primarily through commercials. A note on appearances being deceiving: from a post by Ding Velasco, top pic sent by Marcos' news managers to media purportedly showing an overflow crowd attending his rally. But photo below taken by an independent drone claims to show the real scale of attendance.The basic point is Marcos sezied the initiative by claiming for himself the role of change and hope candidate; this means what Robredo stands for is not yet clear, one or two months into the pre-campaign season.Second: the big bonanza for big business in the process of being legislated by Congress. I have been tracking this story for years.