Month: November 2012

What is this ‘balanced’ reporting you speak of?

November 17, 2012November 17, 2012 a 26 Comments

Following the apparent death of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill due to certain technicalities and delays (which are, interestingly, totally absent during the governmentâ€™s relentless assault towards former Chief Justice Renato Corona), President Benigno Simeon â€œPNoyâ€ Aquino III attempts to sidetrack the tension caused by his administrationâ€™s neglect by once again raising the issue…

Government, Politics

Filipinos who cyber-bullied #Amalayer girl showed worse behaviour than her

November 17, 2012November 17, 2012 Ilda 240 Comments

So I finally saw the â€œAmalayerâ€ video posted on YouTube and I just had to ask myself, what the heck was the big deal? Why did this video go viral? Itâ€™s not even funny and thereâ€™s no way to tell why the girl, Paula Jamie Salvosa went ballistic towards the security guard at the LRT…

Civics, Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Media

How the Philippines’ outsourcing industries can benefit from Paula Jamie Salvosa and Christopher Lao

November 16, 2012 benign0 36 Comments

Following another viral video circus, this time involving Ms Paula Jamie ‘Amalayer’ Salvosa, we find an emerging pattern in the sorts of “scandals” that Filipinos tend to salivate over. A common denominator underlying these is a perverse fascination with the hilarious gaffes Filipinos routinely deliver in their on-going clumsy effort to use the language of…

Culture, Development, Education, Society

Multiply Is Being Subtracted

November 16, 2012November 16, 2012 Gogs No Comments

“Disc Six A dance remix, so I can catch the latest trend and it’ll make you scratch your head and wonder where my taste went. So now my fans are crying sellout, they say that I’ve lost my touch. They say I should just get the hell out before I do too much.” The…

Culture, Media, Society, Tech Talk, Technology

‘Amalayer’ girl Paula Jamie Salvosa should have Tagaloged when she Englished

November 15, 2012December 14, 2015 Kate Natividad 136 Comments

Perhaps Paula Jamie Salvosa, a.k.a. the Amalayer lady had a bad day and navigating the steaming chaos of one of the LRT stations in Manila’s train system is not exactly the best cure for a shitty day. But I can’t help but think back to how the Japanese, in their direst days following that really…

Civics, Culture, Lifestyle, Media

Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill another casualty of the Noynoy Aquino administration

November 14, 2012November 14, 2012 benign0 24 Comments

We recall back when President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III was in campaign mode (as if the President ever got over such an operating mode) that the President reportedly put up the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill as an absolute priority of his administration… Presidential frontrunner Sen. Benigno â€œNoynoy” Aquino III said last Sunday that…

Government, Media, Politics

‘Highlighting the Excellence’ of this country… and other fluffery

November 13, 2012November 13, 2012 P. Farol 41 Comments

Some people have been in the Philippines for a couple of months or years, and they think they’ve got the country figured out well enough to think that it’s a good idea to venture in the Pinoy boonies with a back-pack full of positivism. Perhaps the vein of the idea of “highlighting excellence” lies wedged…

Tech Talk

Can social media ‘activism’ force Tito Sotto to apologise to Kerry Kennedy and Sarah Pope?

November 13, 2012 benign0 36 Comments

It seems to be becoming a showdown between the much-vaunted “power” of social media “activism” and the traditional institutional power of a Senator of the Republic. The most recent news report on the brouhaha over allegations of plagiarism being directed against Philippine Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III screamed “Netizens refuse to let Sotto off the…

Culture, Media, Politics