Category: Media

Kimpoy Feliciano and the social media capital that is the Philippines

June 30, 2012 benign0 15 Comments

So the Philippines is the “social media capital” of the world, is it? What exactly does this mean? Apparently “capturing” the title — a title supposedly “awarded” the country by “pundits” — is seen to be some sort of achievement. Celebrating this “achievement” is the occasion of “a gathering of Twitterati, bloggers and other internet…

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Back to the Future 27th June 2012 hoax was fun anyway

June 29, 2012June 29, 2012 benign0 1 Comment

All day on the 27th June 2012, Facebook social media star George Takei (2.1 million FB subscribers and Mr Sulu in the original Star Trek) no less was among the hundreds of netizens who passed around what looked like an image of the dashboard of Marty McFly’s (played by Michael J Fox) and Doc’s iconic…

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Filipinos tops in NBA armchair sportscasting over Twitter

June 21, 2012June 25, 2013 benign0 20 Comments

Suddenly it all makes sense to me. Sorry I’m kinda slow when it comes to sports trivia. So Erik Spoelstra, coach of the NBA team Miami Heat is a Filipino-American. Kaya pala. According to a Philippine Star report, Filipinos have been so enthralled by the NBA finals in which Heat is up against Oklahoma City…

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Jose Antonio Vargas – modern day migrants’ hero and Filipino exemplar?

June 20, 2012November 21, 2014 benign0 8 Comments

Filipino ‘illegal’ immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas seems to have started something big. Vargas, who lives in the United States, is a journalist of Filipino ancestry who was born in the Philippines but was sent to live with his grandparents (both naturalised Americans) when he was 12. At 16, he experienced a rude awakening to the…

Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Kuh Ledesma and the Decay of OPM

June 15, 2012 a 41 Comments

Confirming the decaying state of Original Pinoy Music (OPM), Filipino recording artist Kuh Ledesma called for the limitation of the number of foreign artists visiting the Philippines to promote their respective labels. In a recent interview with Pep.ph, the Pop Diva pointed out that because we are a small country with limited resources, our local…

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Filipinos cannot progress because of an anti-elite mentality

June 15, 2012March 4, 2015 Ilda 271 Comments

Thanks to Senator Lito Lapid, Filipinos can continue wallowing in mediocrity and be proud of it. The Senator was lauded by many for his verdict speech, which a lot of melodramatic Filipinos found “touching”. In that speech he proudly justified his guilty verdict in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona which he claims…

Culture, Education, Government, Media, Society

Ignorance: a fundamental force in Pinoy society

June 12, 2012August 14, 2013 FallenAngel 92 Comments

Fellow GRP writer Arche wrote a few days ago about Miriam Defensor Santiago (MDS), and he likened her to a modern day Pilosopo Tasyo. She is obsessed with the law, and probably knows it better than most other lawmakers currently in the Philippines. One can be forgiven for saying that her obsession with the law…

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It’s Not Just The Boxers Who Are Brain Damaged

June 11, 2012May 3, 2015 Gogs 57 Comments

“you lock the door and throw away the key there’s someone in my head but it’s not me.” – Pink Floyd The problem with our society is we have so much bias that we notice it the same way a fish notices water. It’s all around us but we don’t think anything of it. Any…

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