Category: Media

Will Noynoy Aquino incite rebellion if Chief Justice Renato Corona is acquitted?

January 20, 2012January 30, 2012 benign0 109 Comments

Another EDSA ocho-ocho “revolution” in the works? That’s according to House Minority Leader Edcel Lagman who reportedly spoke of knowledge of a plan on the part of the administration of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to incite an uprising if Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona is acquitted in his on-going impeachment trial… â€œI hope…

Civics, Crime, Government, Media, Politics

Corona impeachment: Prosecution team is incompetent not just underdogs

January 19, 2012March 16, 2017 Ilda 169 Comments

Supreme Court Chief Justice, Renato Corona is richer (only) by eight million pesos according to an ABS-CBN headline report. This is shocking news, indeed. This means that the embattled Chief Justice won’t be able to afford to purchase even just a second hand Porsche similar to the one President Noynoy Aquino (PNoy) bought in 2011,…

Civics, Crime, Government, Media, Politics

Karen Jimeno: the classy face of Corona’s legal team

January 19, 2012May 17, 2018 benign0 124 Comments

If the underlying strategy of those who are campaigning for the ouster of Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona is the use of mainstream mass media to demonise him, they may be in for a worthy challenger from those who defend him. Lawyer Karen Jimeno who has taken the role of one of the…

Glitz and Glamour, Media, Politics

Day 3 of Corona impeachment: ABS-CBN lawyer bungles questioning of key prosecution witness

January 19, 2012January 21, 2012 benign0 44 Comments

Key point of contention on Day 3 of the trial of the impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Renato Corona is the emergence of allegations that Corona did not declare all of his assets — specifically big properties already revealed to the media — in his statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN). So now…

Civics, Crime, Media, Politics

Day 2 of Corona Impeachment: Amazing grace exhibited by defense team

January 18, 2012January 30, 2012 benign0 64 Comments

Perhaps it is as what everyone had suspected all along. Of what looked like volumes of “evidence” of improper conduct on the part of Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona splashed all over the media by the House of Representatives prosecution team (despite repeated warnings from the Senate), it turns out that only a…

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And so starts the circus of Renato Corona’s trial by publicity

January 16, 2012January 16, 2012 benign0 65 Comments

The Philippine media seems to be stepping up a campaign to distort the facts surrounding the impeachment case against Philippine Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice (CJ) Renato Corona. It is evident in the way Michael Lim Ubac wrote on the very first line of his Inquirer.net “report” World Bank: Loan to Supreme Court high risk…

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World Bank report on Supreme Court ‘ineligible funds’ inappropriately leaked to Rappler?

January 15, 2012January 30, 2012 benign0 37 Comments

Recently, Purple S. Romero of “social news network” site Rappler.com published the article “Return P8.6-M, World Bank tells SC” which details a World Bank request to the Philippine Supreme Court to return “a total of US$199,000 (P8.6-M) in ‘ineligible’ funds by the end of January, saying the High Tribunal spent this on activities and projects…

Government, Media, Politics

Ressa cries bloody ‘libel!’ – When will Rappler.com get it?

January 14, 2012August 7, 2013 benign0 21 Comments

Interesting the way Rappler.com CEO Maria Ressa cries bloody libel over Katrina Stuart-Santiago’s article Going to the dogs — an article about the manner with which Ressa’s self-described “social news network” startup precipitated (and possibly encouraged) a broader “ganging up” on the University of Santo Tomas over a perceived favour it granted to Chief Justice…

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