Category: Media

PNoy government is also to blame for Philippine media’s gossip mongering style

April 27, 2012October 2, 2013 Ilda 45 Comments

Philippine President Noynoy Aquino recently criticized the Philippine media because he thinks that the industry as a whole is not painting a nice picture of the country and his government in particular. Well, well, well. What can I say? Considering that a lot of people have been criticizing the Philippine media for so long and…

Development, Government, Media, Politics

What Miss Universe really stands for and why feminine beauty exists

April 22, 2012April 22, 2012 benign0 15 Comments

The recent furor over a ruling issued by no less than Donald Trump himself owner of the Miss Universe Organization (MUO) allowing transgender contestants to vie for the Miss Universe title sparked numerous debates around what it means to be a “woman” and what defines “beauty”. The Miss Universe pageant after all is a beauty…

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

Renato Corona’s 2002 interview thrown to the mob by ‘investigative journalist’ Raissa Robles

April 15, 2012April 15, 2012 benign0 82 Comments

According to “investigative reporter” Raissa Robles in her recent blog article where she puts on exhibit a 2002 interview conducted by an anonymous “reporter” with now Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona which her amiga in her dubious trade Ms Marites Vitug used as “one of the primary sources” in her “book” Shadow of Doubt:…

Civics, Media, Politics

Crowdsourcing Raissa Robles’s shoplifting allegations

March 28, 2012December 3, 2019 benign0 259 Comments

Recently we exhibited the most current case study of the banal bias that top-dog Filipino media network ABS-CBN consistently applies in its “news reporting” when it featured as its top headline a blog post by “investigative journalist” Raissa Robles on the alleged vast United States property portfolio held by Chief Justice Renato Corona. According to…

Crime, Media, Tech Talk

ABS-CBN News positions hearsay ‘report’ from Raissa Robles as top headline

March 26, 2012March 26, 2012 benign0 130 Comments

Journalistic standards are in a spiral in the Philippines as hearsay “news” gets greater mileage in the biggest media network in the land. Recently, ABS-CBN News plumbed new lows as it positioned as its top headline a highly-speculative blog article by “investigative journalist” Raissa Robles on properties allegedly owned by Chief Justice Renato Corona in…

Civics, Crime, Media, Politics

Elephant named Mistrial will henceforth sit amongst Senator-Judges in Corona impeachment

March 26, 2012 benign0 53 Comments

It seems that the Philippines is in the middle of a repeat of the wholesale con of the Filipino people by the Aquino-Cojuangco clan that was the 2010 Philippine Presidential Elections. Despite overwhelming evidence that the prosecution team had misled the Filipino public with the unverified and outright false “evidence” they had submitted to the…

Crime, Culture, Government, Media, Politics

Why declaring the Corona impeachment trial a mistrial makes perfect political sense

March 24, 2012 benign0 6 Comments

If we recall, it was really just Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III who kicked up the whole frenzy that had since turned into the circus now known as the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona. Because of one man’s vanity and one-dimensional “vision” (if you could even call it that), the…

Civics, Crime, Government, Media, Politics

The prosecution’s violations should compel the senators to call for a mistrial

March 23, 2012March 23, 2012 Ilda 72 Comments

The impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona goes on a break for five weeks for the Lenten season. You have to wonder why the Senate cannot even be flexible enough to delay the schedule of their regular hiatus considering the country is gripped with a matter that is of utmost importance that does not…

Crime, Culture, Government, Media, Politics