Category: Government

The hypocrisy in the protest against the Anti Distracted Driving Law

May 23, 2017 benign0 7 Comments

In the Philippines, even the most basic courtesies and manners need to be legislated. It will likely require strong legislation to stamp out the world-renowned Filipino practice of public urination, for example. Perhaps too, there should also be harsh laws to penalise queue-jumpers, maybe even bozos who try to squeeze into trains before all disembarking…

Civics, Government, Society, Technology

Mocha Uson’s critics overestimate their capacity to influence the ‘masa’

May 13, 2017 Ilda 13 Comments

Are you one of those people who are reeling with anger over singer/dancer and social media blogger Mocha Uson’s appointment as assistant secretary of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO)? Do you feel so outraged that you have resorted to slut-shaming Uson? If you are, then you are a loser. Those of you who think…

Government, Media

The hypocrisy of condemning Mocha Uson’s appointment to the Duterte government

May 12, 2017May 12, 2017 FallenAngel 4 Comments

Mocha Uson elicits a consistently predictable reaction from President Rodrigo Duterte’s critics: disdain. No surprise then that her appointment as part of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) has kept the social media class busy for a while now. The main criticism from the “decent” crowd – private citizens and members of mainstream media included…

Government, Politics, Society

Mocha Uson fit for Duterte’s social media messaging but more needed to engage critics productively

May 12, 2017 benign0 4 Comments

Building a credible media machine to counter the anti-government bias of traditional media led by big corporate networks is not a simple matter of fielding “die-hard” loyalists on social media. It involves building a consistent media brand that, in the long run is perceived to be apolitical or, at the very least, non-partisan. It is…

Government, Media

Duterte Cabinet Post Vacancies or Game of Turons

May 4, 2017May 4, 2017 P. Farol 2 Comments

There are now three vacancies in President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s cabinet. After Perfecto Yasay was rejected by the Commission on Appointments and Ismael Sueno was fired by President Duterte comes the rejection of Gina Lopez’ appointment. Those opposed to administration may read this as proof of the President’s failure to either attract real talent into…

Government

The death of old-school ‘journalism’ proves that democracy is ALIVE in the Philippines

April 29, 2017January 3, 2020 benign0 9 Comments

Roles have been reversed. Mainstream “journalists” are now the loud and noisy shills who cry bloody “persecution” and peddle unfounded conspiracies. It is hardly surprising that people nowadays now rely on alternative sources of information. Old school journalists are just too self-important to have decent discussions with. How does the news media industry old guard…

Government, Media

Oddball Moments of Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña

April 28, 2017April 29, 2017 P. Farol 4 Comments

So in my previous post, I wondered what was eating Cebu City mayor Tomas “Tommy” Osmena and recounted how I had met him six or seven years ago. The portly local politician who feasted on endless rounds of Japanese barbecue with me and my friends certainly left an impression on me that night. His other stories,…

Government

What’s Eating Good Ol’ Tommy Osmeña?

April 24, 2017 P. Farol 4 Comments

Several weeks ago I came across several articles about Tommy Osmeña on my timeline. Some had to with accounts of how he was driving out business in Cebu City and other accounts linked him to a big time drug dealer who had been recently killed. First I wondered why the name struck me as familiar…

Government

Gabsboy
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zzz
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
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benign0
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
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Slaves
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
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Gabsboy
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on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
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on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
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