Category: Media

Senate drama sideshow: Yoly Ong and Juan Ponce Enrile’s exchange of lawsuits

January 28, 2013August 19, 2013 FallenAngel 28 Comments

As if Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile did not have enough on his plate this month from Senators Miriam Santiago, Antonio Trillanes, and Alan Peter Cayetano. As was reported a few days ago, he also has to deal with the counterclaim of Campaigns & Grey chairperson and Philippine Star columnist Yoly Villanueva-Ong. Ms. Ong filed…

Government, Media, Politics

Noynoy Aquino’s WEF ‘harvest’ in Davos: Where are the results?

January 27, 2013 benign0 38 Comments

The behaviour of a large complex system like the Philippine economy cannot be described using the preferred indicators of a world economic body that mainly represents the interests of the global private sector. Even less credible are people who rely on the much-vaunted Gross Domestic Product (GDP) metric as the kernel of their efforts to…

Development, Economy, Media

Philippine National Cringe: Ricky Lo interviews Anne Hathaway

January 19, 2013January 19, 2013 benign0 203 Comments

Filipinos yet again are in the throes of a national cringe as a video of supposedly-veteran showbiz journalist Ricky Lo interviewing Les Miserables star Anne Hathaway makes the rounds in cyberspace. The video is a fine specimen of how the underbelly of the Filipino psyche is revealed when back-lit by the glitz of international celebrity….

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media

Crowdsourcing the Maria Ressa and Lilibeth Frondoso tsismis

January 17, 2013January 18, 2013 benign0 11 Comments

To give credit to ‘investigative journalist’ Raissa Robles, who pioneered the journalistic technique of investigative crowdsourcing, blog comment threads are indeed treasure troves of dirt on a who’s-who list of the Philippines’ hottest celebrities. People can be called out for shoplifting just on the basis of hearsay, and the portfolios of Chief Justices laid bare…

Crime, Glitz and Glamour, Media

Who are behind DMT Ice Angels who own 17 percent of Rappler?

January 15, 2013 benign0 19 Comments

Indeed, it’s been one of Philippine Media’s greatest non-mysteries: the question of who owns “social news network” (pa)hipster news site Rappler.com. According to Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, all the answers to that question are in their sanitised About page which features a list of its illustrious Board members. But ever since a quick-and-dirty exposÃ© (actually,…

Media, Politics, Tech Talk

Memories of a Civil War

January 13, 2013January 13, 2013 Mauro Gia Samonte 108 Comments

Kirk was already in late-twenties when he got into the mainstream of the so-called national democratic movement initiated by Jose Maria Sison. From the ranks of mass activists, he was elevated to candidate membership in the Communist Party of the Philippines and after a few months in that status became full-fledged party member. The chaos…

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Media, Politics

Noynoy Aquino’s new chief presidential legal counsel and the KKK tradition

January 12, 2013August 15, 2013 FallenAngel 13 Comments

President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino continues his tradition of appointing KKK’s, kabarilan, kaklase, kamag-anak (Gun buddies, classmates, relatives, respectively) to government positions, regardless of the sensitivity. In his latest move, he has named attorney Alfredo Benjamin S. Caguioa as his new Chief Presidential Legal Counsel (CPLC). Caguioa has been a classmate of the president’s from…

Government, Media, Politics

Racist letter vs American Canyon Filipino community in Napa County CA goes viral

January 9, 2013January 9, 2013 benign0 47 Comments

A supposedly ‘racist’ letter directed against the Filipino community in the city of American Canyon in Napa County, California in the United States is making the rounds in social media. An image of the letter was first shared by a certain Derek Valencia on a Facebook post with the caption “Anyone else in American canyon…

Culture, Media, Society

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