Category: Media

Achieving developmental focus: The Philippines’ Vital Few initiatives

July 4, 2014July 4, 2014 benign0 1 Comment

The Philippines is a most massive outcome of lots of actions underpinned by very little thinking. So many initiatives, advocacies, “movements”, agendas, and vested interests driven by even more characters in a country of 100 million clueless people — it sounds like a chapter out of John Barrow’s book Impossibility. The Philippines is a case…

Charter Change, Development, Economy, Media, Society

Understanding the Media

June 30, 2014 BenK 8 Comments

For about a month now, I have had what I will call “an expanded role” beyond the column I write three times a week at The Manila Times. The specifics of that arrangement are not for public consumption (and would probably be completely boring to anyone who doesn’t happen to be in the newspaper business,…

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Media

Dutch airline KLM in hot water over ‘racist’ tweet vs Mexico World Cup team

June 30, 2014June 30, 2014 benign0 4 Comments

What was supposed to be a witty swipe at the Mexican World Cup team on Twitter by Dutch flag carrier Royal Ducth Airlines (KLM) became the subject of an online indignation campaign that forced the airline to delete the tweet. Mexico had lost to the Dutch earlier and is out of the match. Noted social…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Society

Facebook users’ emotions controlled by manipulating newsfeed content

June 29, 2014 benign0 6 Comments

Facebook and other social media networks seem to have come of age. That is, like mainstream media corporations, they are now in a position to deliberately manipulate their audience’s emotions. The results of an experiment conducted on almost 700,000 Facebook users published on the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United…

Media, Society, Tech Talk

Filipino ideal of female beauty stands out in global Photoshop doll-up project!

June 27, 2014June 27, 2014 benign0 26 Comments

The Huffington Post article is pretty self-explanatory, What Happened When One Woman Had Her Picture Photoshopped In 25 Different Countries. The outcome was quite revealing following its author’s simple instructions as part of a rather clever project… “Make me look beautiful.” That’s what Esther Honig asked 40 photo editors to do — in over 25…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media

6 facts of life according to Game of Thrones

June 27, 2014June 28, 2014 Ilda 23 Comments

If you haven’t seen any episode of the international hit television series Game of Thrones which is based on the best-selling novels, well I suggest you better start watching them now because what you are about to read contains spoilers. Yes, I don’t mind if you read this article after you’ve seen the series or…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Politics, Society

Sen Bong Revilla could’ve had VIP treatment in jail had he and his entourage just kept their mouths shut

June 26, 2014May 12, 2019 benign0 16 Comments

Filipinos today are gleefully scrutinising, “debating”, and exchanging trivial factoids on the minutiae of the manner with which two popular Philippine Senators, Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla, are being detained by the state on “plunder” charges — the physical conditions of their jail cells, what they’re having for breakfast and lunch, how they look in…

Crime, Lifestyle, Media

Deeply mysterious: Philippine President BS Aquino’s veto of Nora Aunor’s National Artist bid

June 25, 2014October 23, 2018 benign0 13 Comments

Strange that a government that gives the time of day to the adolescent rants of has-been starlets like Lani Mercado, wife of embattled Senator Bong Revilla (who languishes in prison awaiting trial for alleged pork barrel thievery), would suddenly invoke that all-too-familiar Filipino-style debate-ender when it came to explaining why it had reportedly “snubbed” popular…

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

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