After calling Get Real Post writer @Ilda_talk a “minor minor blogger” and copping a bit of flak out of that major major lapse in judgement, the CEO of Rappler Maria Ressa has decided that she’s had enough of the healthy dose of dissent she’s been attracting.
This is coming from a person who fancies herself God’s Gift to ALL Philippine Journalism and one lauded by a clique of gullible foreign “journalists” as some sort of beacon of “press freedom”. Indeed, in a recent tweet, no less than CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta described Ressa as “a brave reporter” — as if Ressa holds a monopoly on “braveness” over and above all Filipino journalists.
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It seems, however, that Ressa herself cannot handle dissent when it is directed at her. Following an avalanche of challenge to her dubious claim that “press freedom” in the Philippines is “under attack” and that it is the Philippine government under the leadership of President Rodrigo Duterte who is perpetrating this attack, Ressa has started blocking people much the same way her pal and Yellowtard senatorial candidate Florin “Pilo” Hilbay gained his fame as a serial blocker on Twitter.
In a rather hilarious twist Ressa had recently blocked @ilda_talk on Twitter too.
Now that’s being not very sportsman like, is it?
There’s a lot to be said about how the Yellowtard-led Opposition and and its ecosystem of “activists” disguised as “journalists” are conducting their affairs. But it cannot be said that they apply consistency to their cause and “advocacies”. This is the reason they have lost the trust of the Filipino people. Ressa, in particular, could be credited for single-handedly giving Philippine Corporate News Media a bad name. It’s time she be called out by her peers in an industry that desperately needs to step up and refashion itself into a community that upholds competitive but responsible business enterprise. Sadly, Rappler, thanks to the dysfunctional leadership of its CEO, is severely setting back this effort to aspire for excellence in media delivery.
benign0 is the Webmaster of GetRealPhilippines.com.
THAT IS AN ASSAULT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION !!! Freedom of Speech !!!
***SHE BLOCKED and BANNED ME IN RAPPLER***
What an assault !!!
LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP! LOCK UP RESSA and throw the keys to the crocodiles ….
Bol! As usual being a DAMN BLOODY HYPOCRITE again eh benign0?!?!
You tried to block me. Coz I was showing dissent from your usual gang of sheeple who are just circle JERKING each other round and round. I ask for proof / data for your claims, yet all you partisan paid hacks provide are your circle jerking “logic”,
I’ve lied low. But I couldn’t resist. I’m always here benign0…
You’re one to lambast rappler. Yet your criticisms are not valid and just SPAM. GRP just spews whatever non-sense that comes from the huge TITS of mocha unson. You are the same as the “yellow media” you claim to hate. Just a different side of the same damn coin. You can’t even provide any objective analysis beyond your carabao logic?!? You are just as partisan as the yellows, only difference is marcos is in vogue now.
Three sh!t articles in a row eh. You must be madly in love with Maria Ressa for her to warrant this much attention. Either that, as a PAID marcos hack you are doing your masters bidding.lol.
Don’t block me again, you damn HYPOCRITE.
Now that’s being not very sportsman like, is it?
You are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To regale us how wise Noynoy, Mar, Maria Ressa, Leni, Josh, Frankie . Leila all are and to enlighten us how we can be wise like you. Please do not leave us. Not even for 48 hours.
@Dilawan Mortis, the leftist cuck:
Says the REAL HYPOCRITE who keeps on spitting the SAME OLD SHIT all over again, along with this tiring ‘paid Marcos hack’ BS. So don’t get mad if benign0 blocked you because you don’t even behave yourself. Anarchists and left-leaning socialists doesn’t even know about manners.
With your same antics, I’m gonna say you’re gonna be blocked again, HYPOCRITE. Yeah, leftists are always like that.
Enjoy your stay while it lasts.
Its because you do nothing but contribute ZERO to the discussions here in the in the comments section.
But good point, i guess benign0 has learned something from this, and so did I. There will always be people who try to “win”, even if it is not the point. And yes, people will hold double standards, but it doesnt mean they are wrong to do so. As with your case being blocked, it is because you are a toxic self-righteous piece of shit. Marcos this. Martial law that. Dictatorship, no thanks! Freedom, este ANARCHY, hell yeah! *Yawn* Mentioning or even alluding to discipline instantly TRIGGERS you.
I do agree as well that there were too many maria ressa articles in the past few days though. But keep in mind, just because I agree with you doesnt mean i support you, you unprincipled lump of slime.
You know, it’s likely that he will get blocked again – when he mentioned his ‘paid Marcos hack’ BS, which makes him a fullblown leftist, where they were an actual bunch of hypocrites.
As the phrase goes – “He’s at it again.”
Unfortunately with multiple devices and VPNs, he can just post again using a different identifier. Just like a turd that wont flush.
Ive seen the likes of him come and go, like in the past we had Joe America and Pallacertus. There is a silver lining though: when the parties that pay him/her to troll this site run out of funding and the budget gets cut, so then will the comments stop. Til then, sit back, grab some popcorn, just watch him puke word vomit out of his ass.
Maria Reesa’s tactic of blocking bloggers, whom they don’t like is the same tactic of the Aquino Cojuangco political axis YellowTards.
CNN Jim Acosta, is nothing but a rude person, who think of himself as the most knowledgeable person in this planet. CNN Acosta is fake news, rude and a jerk.
The trouble Maria Reesa is facing now is Tax Evasion. She is trying to politicize her charges of tax evasion; so that she will not pay her taxes. That is unfair for all of us, paying our taxes !
The YellowTards have been keeping with this false dichotomy that one has to either become a YellowTard or [else] be considered a Marcos sympathizer. But, there can be a side superior to both these two.
The Yellows had more than 3 decades (which is longer than Marcos’ reign) to effect sufficient improvements to society. Yet they’ve squandered their opportunity & managed to let the PI slide behind the rest of its neighbors at so many levels. Despite their desperation, the Yellows & their media cohorts cannot remedy the huge disappointment a larger number of Filipinos feel for them. They managed things so badly that instead of coming-up with truly recognizable & significant victories, they’ve resorted to use their media cohorts to do hate or black propaganda against alternative non-yellow parties, making it appear that Filipinos have only a choice between bad & worse.
It’s time for Filipinos to be saved & freed from their Yellow rhetoric. The Yellows have no genuine love for their country. Party politics for them trumps national interest.
RESSA CANNOT HANDLE THE TRUTH …
Ressa cannot handle dissent …
Because she is not a DECENT PERSON ….
LOCK HER UP !!! LOCK HER UP !!!
I bet prison for Maria Ressa will be like a week in a resort in the (new) Boracay or Coron…
All the SUSHI she can eat!!!
(hehehe)
RESSA HATES FREE SPEECH !!!
IT IS RESSA THAT DEFINES WHAT IS FREE SPEECH …
***Her Blog … Her Speech … not our speech … DEAL WITH IT ***
IT IS OBVIOUS RESSA HATES FREE SPEECH
RESSA SAID SEC & IRS are proxy of Duterte to muzzle free press
Duterte said not him it is the law
RESSA ATTACKED. RESSA BELIEVED SHE IS THE SUPREME COURT AND THE LAW. She alluded SEC & IRS are proxy of Duterte to muzzle free press BUT NO EVIDENCE TO SHOW BUT WHAT SHE ONLY FEELS AND BELIEVE.
RESSA IS JUDGE & JURY. SHE THINKS RIGHTFULY SO BECAUSE SHE IS A JOURNALIST.
TRULY A FILIPINO
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.
MARIA RESSA ONE OF THE GUARDIANS TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR ….
http://time.com/person-of-the-year-2018-the-guardians/