Category: 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

Gwendolyn Garcia could end up living like a cavewoman in the Cebu Capitol building

January 4, 2013January 4, 2013 benign0 54 Comments

The clock is ticking for suspended Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia who is currently besieged in the provincial capitol after she defied a suspension order issued by MalacaÃ±ang mid-December last year. As police mulled over their options short of physically dragging Garcia out of the public building, Acting Governor Agnes Almendras Magpale is considering cutting off…

Crime, Government, Media

All in all you’re just another brick in the wall, waiting on the world to change

January 1, 2013August 8, 2013 FallenAngel 64 Comments

The title applies to you, as a Pinoy, if you swallow hook, line, and sinker, everything that you are told by media, your elders, and your politicians. You submit to the matrix that is Da Pinoy condition. You submit yourself without question to the collective “bliss” of the Hive. You hope that the world will…

Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Where was Philippine Congressman Manny Pacquiao when Typhoon Pablo devastated Mindanao?

December 12, 2012 benign0 40 Comments

The other day I came across what I thought was a pretty poignant tweet coming from one of the humour Tweetizens I follow. It went something like this: Our boys in helmets who fight our battles halfway around the world should be paid more than the boys in helmets who pass around a ball in…

Culture, Environment, Media

Justin Bieber incurs the wrath of the balat-sibuyas mob

December 12, 2012August 22, 2013 FallenAngel 41 Comments

Within the Philippines, or any Filipino community abroad, Manny Pacquiao’s loss to Juan Manuel Marquez is considered a national tragedy. Outside, where the sense of national pride and identity are not hitched to the rise and fall of one boxer, life goes on. What Pacquiao’s loss has “inspired” in the rest of the world is…

Glitz and Glamour, Media