Category: Media

WHO instructed Tab Baldwin to “limit” his public “apology” to just “four minutes”?

June 14, 2026June 14, 2026 benign0 1 Comment

It is becoming increasingly evident that the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) is maintaining (or at least trying to maintain) tight control over the messaging surrounding the tragic deaths of basketball players Rene Clert Baterbonia and Divine Adili during a team activity in Baler, Aurora province. It explains the very measured trickle of information out…

Education, Media, Society

Al Jazeera @AJEnglish posts misleading video in report on arrest of Philippine Senator Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa

May 14, 2026May 14, 2026 benign0 No Comments

A post on social media platform X issued by media organisation Al Jazeera shows what seems to be a “report” on the ongoing drama in the Philippine Senate surrounding embattled Senator Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa. There were reports of gunfire last night in the Senate building as dela Rosa attempted to flee arresting officers acting…

Media, Tech Talk

“Press freedom” activists and leftist groups up in arms over conviction of commie “journalist” Frenchie Mae Cumpio on charges of terrorist financing

January 23, 2026January 23, 2026 benign0 1 Comment

Filipino “journalist” Frenchie Mae Cumpio was recently handed a guilty verdict by a Philippine court on charges of terrorist financing. As expected, a who’s-who of communist sympathisers and “press freedom groups” are now up in arms over the outcome crying bloody “travesty of justice”. On cue, a multitude of mainstream media organisations focus their “reports”…

Crime, Media

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

August 10, 2025August 10, 2025 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

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]”….

Media

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

August 8, 2025 Oman 1 Comment

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…

Development, Economy, Government, Media

Richard Heydarian looks to artificial intelligence to validate his victimhood

August 2, 2025August 2, 2025 benign0 3 Comments

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…

Lifestyle, Media

Marcos’s Communication Crisis: The Price of Instability

June 6, 2025June 6, 2025 Oman 3 Comments

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…

Government, Media, Politics

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

April 13, 2025 benign0 9 Comments

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…

Media, Politics, Society