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A recent “fact check” done by “investigative journalist” Ellen Tordesillas’s agency VERA Files — a so-called “independent fact checker” of Facebook — asserts that Senator Franklin Drilon did not doze off during an interview with CNN Philippines’ Pinky Webb on her show The Source. In their report “VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Jay Sonza, RJ Nieto…
Pressure is mounting on Senator Grace Poe to hold herself accountable for misappropriating public resources down a Senate “inquiry” into the ABS-CBN franchise renewal “issue”. The “inquiry” which Poe claimed was “in aid of legislation” has done nothing beyond giving ABS-CBN a platform for emotional blackmail. Poe is hard-pressed to report to the Filipino public…
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ABS-CBN news and talk show host Karen Davila recently had Malacanang Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo as her guest on ANC to discuss the franchise renewal of the TV network that employs her. It’s fair to say that she struggled to achieve her goal — to pin the blame on President Rodrigo Duterte over the possibility…
Supporters of embattled ABS-CBN are going about their expressions of “solidarity” with the media giant the wrong way. They are framing their “cause” as one about its employees losing their jobs because of an “attack” from an “evil dictator”. The facts, however, tell a different story. The case being built by the government against ABS-CBN…
Pro ABS-CBN activists need to come up with better arguments to support their favourite mass media network. Notice how ABS-CBN supporters are making narratives out of how they and their families here and abroad are so attached to their favourite shows from the network and how it has helped them cope with life? That’s all…
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This morning Solicitor General Jose Calida filed a quo warranto petition at the Supreme Court to nullify the franchises of ABS-CBN and ABS-CBN Convergence, Inc “as they are unlawfully exercising their legislative franchises.” It would look like the final nail in the coffin of ABS-CBN’s franchise renewal. That is if we consider that a number of…
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Perhaps rightly so, Opposition partisans in the Philippines lament the way “democracy” is working for them nowadays. They lost an entire nation in the 2016 elections that catapulted former Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte to the presidency today and botched a chance to gain a foothold into Congress when they suffered a catastrophic loss in…
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One of the House Speaker’s duties is to make sure that important political and economic legislation is passed in an efficient and timely matter. House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano prides himself for having passed the 2020 budget in record time but not without detractors alleging that he had favored allies with hundreds of millions. Fellow…
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