Holding back: Media split on covering Bong Go's poor performance in Senate CMFR 31 May 2021, 16:13 GMT+10 LAST MAY 20 and 25, neophyte Senator Christopher "Bong" Go struggled to answer veteran politician and Minority Floor Leader Franklin Drilon's questions about Go's proposed bills to increase bed capacities and to re-nationalize hospitals. Some reports noted Go's faltering performance, the kind of coverage Go has not quite gotten from the media. Other news organizations stuck to their PR-type coverage of Go, or cited officials who favored him. Go's legislative capacity As chair of the Senate committee on health and demography, Go sponsored 15 bills to increase the bed capacities of several hospitals nationwide. During a plenary session on May 20, he failed to mention that two of the bills would also return control of two provincial hospitals - Benguet General Hospital and Lanao del Norte Provincial Hospital — to the national government.