Month: February 2020

Senator Grace Poe should RESIGN following the ABS-CBN conflict-of-interest fiasco!

February 28, 2020 benign0 7 Comments

Pressure is mounting on Senator Grace Poe to hold herself accountable for misappropriating public resources down a Senate “inquiry” into the ABS-CBN franchise renewal “issue”. The “inquiry” which Poe claimed was “in aid of legislation” has done nothing beyond giving ABS-CBN a platform for emotional blackmail. Poe is hard-pressed to report to the Filipino public…

Crime, Media

Karen Davila failed to pin blame for ABS-CBN franchise non-renewal on Duterte during Panelo interview

February 22, 2020 Ilda 7 Comments

ABS-CBN news and talk show host Karen Davila recently had Malacanang Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo as her guest on ANC to discuss the franchise renewal of the TV network that employs her. It’s fair to say that she struggled to achieve her goal — to pin the blame on President Rodrigo Duterte over the possibility…

Crime, Media

Supporters of ABS-CBN represent the interests of the oligarchy and NOT of the Filipino people

February 22, 2020February 22, 2020 benign0 9 Comments

Supporters of embattled ABS-CBN are going about their expressions of “solidarity” with the media giant the wrong way. They are framing their “cause” as one about its employees losing their jobs because of an “attack” from an “evil dictator”. The facts, however, tell a different story. The case being built by the government against ABS-CBN…

Crime, Media

On Liberation Theology and Ivory Tower Mentality

February 20, 2020February 20, 2020 ChinoF 3 Comments

I went through the liberation theology subject during my last college year at Ateneo (1996-97). We got immersed in an Aeta reservation in Bataan for a few days. It’s an attempt to make us “privileged” students aware of the plight of poorer people in remote areas, with the part-expectation that we would return and try…

Civics, Culture

Do Filipino parents really want their kids participating in campus “activism”?

February 17, 2020 benign0 16 Comments

There really is something fundamentally wrong with the way Filipino kids are being educated. We are made to believe, for example, that campus “activism” represents the pinnacle of student life, to the extent that medals are hung on students who express their “dissent” by walking out of class and participating in street rallies. Challenged as…

Education, Politics

Emotional testimonials from fans won’t change FACTS nor help ABS-CBN in court

February 16, 2020 Ilda 4 Comments

Pro ABS-CBN activists need to come up with better arguments to support their favourite mass media network. Notice how ABS-CBN supporters are making narratives out of how they and their families here and abroad are so attached to their favourite shows from the network and how it has helped them cope with life? That’s all…

Media

The problem with De-stigmatizing and Forced Acceptance Efforts

February 16, 2020 ChinoF 2 Comments

The reaction of opponents against the decision then of President Duterte to move tambays (derived from “stand-bys” or loitering freeloaders) off the streets included attempts to de-stigmatize tambays. They say things like “not all tambays are crooks” or “being tambay is not wrong.” But these are not really true because increased number of tambays has…

Civics, Culture, Society

ABS-CBN Tax Evasion is Fake News

February 12, 2020 P. Farol 9 Comments

With only a couple of weeks before ABS-CBN(s legislative franchise expires, there seems to be a mad scramble. I am not too sure whether it is to hammer the final nail in its coffin or to beat the dead horse. Either way, there is a mob calling for its closure that seems louder and more…

Politics