Category: Media

Yellowtard media cry “VICTIM” yet again as their demonization campaign vs Duterte flags

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Yellowtard media cry “VICTIM” yet again as their demonization campaign vs Duterte flags

Yellow “journalist” Regine Cabato in her Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) piece invokes the all-too-familiar trope of “hyper-partisan influencers, trolls, and true believers” that are “part-human, part-machine” engaging in a “long-running political influence campaign” to “cast doubt on the merits of the impeachment and quell potential outrage regarding controversies surrounding [Vice President Sara Duterte]”….

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SMC’s Infrastructure Empire: How Flood Control Unlocks Trillion-Peso Land Values in the Philippines

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SMC’s Infrastructure Empire: How Flood Control Unlocks Trillion-Peso Land Values in the Philippines

San Miguel Corporation controls the Philippines’ most extensive private land portfolio through strategic infrastructure projects, with holdings valued at over ₱1 trillion concentrated in flood-prone areas that would dramatically appreciate with improved water management systems. The conglomerate’s 2,500-hectare New Manila International Airport anchors a 12,000-hectare aerotropolis in coastal Bulacan, while proposed Manila Bay reclamation projects…

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Development, Economy, Government, Media

Richard Heydarian looks to artificial intelligence to validate his victimhood

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Richard Heydarian looks to artificial intelligence to validate his victimhood

When all else fails, seek validation from an artificial intelligence (AI), right? Laughably, this is what self-crowned “thought leader” Richard Heydarian does on an X post promoting Grok to tell him all about his self-perceived victimhood. Heydarian fails to consider that people are on to the AI hype. These systems — specifically those made available…

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Lifestyle, Media

Marcos’s Communication Crisis: The Price of Instability

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Marcos’s Communication Crisis: The Price of Instability

The revolving door at the Presidential Communications Office is a critical vulnerability that is undermining President Marcos’s public trust and legacy. Three years into his presidency, President Marcos has yet to come to terms with his communication team at the PCO, having already sent home three secretaries and placing the fate of the fourth press…

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Government, Media, Politics

Philippine elections 2025: Idiots equipped with smartphones with minds altered by social media are a menace!

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Philippine elections 2025: Idiots equipped with smartphones with minds altered by social media are a menace!

Too much social media? This is, of course, a global problem leading some countries like Australia to apply minimum age limits to the creation of accounts on popular social media services. This particular age limits “solution”, interestingly enough, highlights the core issue of how access to unregulated information poses a potential hazard to impressionable young…

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Media, Politics, Society

Astounding double standard: Mainstream media mum over government intimidation of political bloggers

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Astounding double standard: Mainstream media mum over government intimidation of political bloggers

Chalk another one up for the double standard of the Philippines’ mainstream media. On one hand, they would be up in arms over even the slightest hint of government and powerful politicians’ influence — much more suppression — of citizens’ rights to express themselves in a public forum. On the other, and in today’s case,…

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Media, Politics

The Dutertard “influencers” need to EVOLVE

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The Dutertard “influencers” need to EVOLVE

The circle of “influencers’ surrounding former President Rodrigo Duterte and his clan, which includes current Vice President Sara Duterte, need to shape up. The cult of personality approach where everything is an appeal to emotion — personal loyalty, patriotism, regionalism, and the all-time greatest hit, utang na loob (debt of gratitude) have all become passé….

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Crime, Media

Rappler admits USAID funding but still neither confirms nor denies receiving grants from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

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Rappler admits USAID funding but still neither confirms nor denies receiving grants from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

Yellowtard “social news network” Rappler continues to flail over the gutting of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by US President Donald Trump. Gaby Baizas, a “digital forensics researcher” there insists in her piece “The lies, attacks on USAID spreading in the Philippines” that “USAID has been providing humanitarian aid to several countries,…

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