Category: Media

ABS-CBN’s Forevermore Teleserye Contributes to Benguet Watershed Destruction

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ABS-CBN’s Forevermore Teleserye Contributes to Benguet Watershed Destruction

Here’s another thing that people have missed because of those fake environmentalists protesting the cutting of 60 trees in Luneta Hill, Baguio City… A VITAL watershed in Tuba, Benguet is being destroyed by development and the influx of thousands of tourists attracted by ABS-CBN’s Forevermore Teleserye that is being shot there.  But before that, let me…

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Culture, Development, Environment, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Uncategorized

Corruption, incompetence and foolishness under President Aquino exposed!

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Corruption, incompetence and foolishness under President Aquino exposed!

Why does God allow the corrupt and incompetent public servants to stay in power in the Philippines? I wish I had the chance to ask Pope Francis that question in person. But it would have probably confused him because the incumbent Philippine President Benigno Simeon (BS) Aquino, in his welcome speech to the Pontiff, insisted…

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Crime, Culture, Government, Media, Politics, Society

The Dangers of Social Networking

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The Dangers of Social Networking

It’s common knowledge by now that Filipinos are one of the top users of social networking. Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, you name it, there will probably never be less than a few million Filipinos using it. When once, people simply traded messages on email, people today display pictures, play music, show videos, notify people of their…

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Lifestyle, Media, Society, Tech Talk

Homages, Fanfics, Parodies and Ripoffs: Defining Plagiarism

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Homages, Fanfics, Parodies and Ripoffs: Defining Plagiarism

This is not meant to be a critical article but one that begs the question of just what is originality and why so much media in the Philippines is often branded “unoriginal”. I mean, just what does it mean to be “original” in this day and age and why does it have to be an…

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Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Society

Pope Francis’s over-the-top reception in the #Philippines

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Pope Francis’s over-the-top reception in the #Philippines

Building a cult of personality. That is the last thing Pope Francis is likely to have wanted included in his agenda for his visit to the Philippines. The Pope said that his visit to the Philippines is about the poor and the victims of the two recent calamities that devastated the Philippines. To further punctuate…

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Civics, Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

Bullying and Offensive Stereotypes in Our Society

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Bullying and Offensive Stereotypes in Our Society

I once read an issue of Marvel’s Captain America and I saw a scene where the Red Skull (the villain of the piece) tries to justify the terrible atrocities he has committed over the years. He said something along the lines that “everyone secretly wants to bully and be bullied by others”. For those unfamiliar…

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Culture, Development, Education, Media, Society

Yikes! Pope Francis with Filipino celebrities in commemorative painting!

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Yikes! Pope Francis with Filipino celebrities in commemorative painting!

Ok, just when the whole brouhaha over the grandiose wedding of Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes is simmering down, I came across this supposedly recently-completed painting by Dante Hipolito… Apparently Hipolito is known in art circles as a “hyper-realist” and his favorite subject involves depictions of scenes of traditional Filipino rural life. Well, the scenes…

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Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Religion, Society