Category: Media

The business of journalism: a challenge of making money without selling your soul

January 4, 2012July 5, 2017 benign0 33 Comments

This is a similar problem I was trying to highlight when I responded to Irene (@mindanaoan) in a Twitter.com tweet with this: “That’s the trouble when society relies on altruism. [You] get into uncomfortable relationships. State services get less personal.” This is after she tweeted about how she “found out that Philip Morris – yep,…

Civics, Education, Media, Politics

The self-inflicted disasters of Philippine New Year celebrations

January 3, 2012 benign0 12 Comments

It is the all-too-familiar case of of the same results brought about by doing the same thing again and again. The Year 2011 ended with the usual bang — Filipino style. The Department of Health (DOH) put the casualty figure of the traditional end-of-year orgy of fire and explosives at 739 injured plus one dead…

Culture, Environment, Government, Media, Society

The official definition of ‘social news network’ @rapplerdotcom

January 2, 2012October 12, 2016 benign0 39 Comments

I came across some chatter on Twitter today regarding some kind of issue around something “veteran journalist” Marites Vitug wrote about the Philippines’ University of Santo Tomas reportedly granting a doctorate in law, summa cum laude, to Chief Justice Renato Corona without requiring a dissertation. I’m thinking, whatever. Granting degrees and distinctions on any person,…

Media, Tech Talk

Filipino indie film makers need to stop whining and step up

January 2, 2012December 23, 2013 benign0 90 Comments

A firestorm of “indignation” descending upon Get Real Post article Filipino films: they don’t make us think (written by Ilda) brought to light the plight of hapless Filipino independent film makers in an industry dominated by big studios and distributors out to make a quick buck from a largely vacuous society. To borrow a line…

Glitz and Glamour, Media

Filipino films: they don’t make us think

December 31, 2011July 31, 2022 Ilda 1,302 Comments

The type of films Filipino filmmakers make reflect the type of people most Filipinos are — people lacking in substance. Just looking at the list of entries for this year’s Manila Film Festival, you can already tell that not a lot of thinking was involved in the process of making them. Even the titles leave…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media

The important thing is to be happy on Christmas – Bong Revilla

December 28, 2011 benign0 12 Comments

One person who was certainly feeling the full “spirit” of Christmas is Philippine Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr who gushed over the film Ang Panday 2 in a press conference organised around it in early December. Panday 2 is the official entry of Imus Production and GMA Films to this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival….

Glitz and Glamour, Media

President Noynoy Aquino: Is he the new Filipino god?

December 24, 2011November 5, 2013 Ilda 102 Comments

Philippine President Benigno Simeon Aquino wants to end 2011 right — or at least his handlers do. Just a few days before the end of the year, Malacañang’s official survey firm, Social Weather Stations (SWS), which is owned and operated by friends and family members of PNoy, concluded the year with another “very good” rating…

Culture, Media, Politics, Religion

Fails the So What? Test: Raissa Robles on Mrs Cristina Corona as ‘GMA appointee’ @raissawriter

December 24, 2011December 24, 2011 benign0 107 Comments

By “investigative journalist” Raissa Robles’s own admission, some people end up as collateral damage when “dirt” about them gets dug up when scandal erupts. That’s what “investigative journalists” do after all. Dig up dirt. So the collateral supposedly damaged by Robles’s recent article is Mrs Cristina Corona, wife of Chief Justice Renato Corona who is…

Crime, Media, Politics

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