Category: Media

Philippine society elite ridicule Vice President Sara Duterte’s Visayan accent

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Philippine society elite ridicule Vice President Sara Duterte’s Visayan accent

Remember how the ouster of former President Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada was engineered by the Yellowidiots led by former presidents Fidel ‘Tabako’ Ramos and Cory Aquino in 2001? Then when former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) and Cory got into a tiff over Hacienda Luisita, the Yellowidiots turned against GMA and began a demolition job on…

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Media, Society

An alliance between the Yellowtards and the Marcos dynasty forms the Philippines’ new ruling oligarchy

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An alliance between the Yellowtards and the Marcos dynasty forms the Philippines’ new ruling oligarchy

In his Inquirer piece “Media, politics, and foreign relations”, columnist Randy David illuminates the recent media re-circus surrounding President Bongbong Marcos’s alleged history of drug use… It must have taken no small amount of pressure by the former president to get [Senator Ronald “Bato”] Dela Rosa, his erstwhile police chief, to initiate an investigation into…

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Media, Politics

There is no evidence that Sass Rogando Sasot’s accounts on Facebook were deleted or banned for political reasons

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There is no evidence that Sass Rogando Sasot’s accounts on Facebook were deleted or banned for political reasons

The buzz going around at the moment is that popular pro-Duterte social media personality Sass Rogando Sasot was banned from Facebook. Both critics and supporters of former President Rodrigo Duterte and his daughter, current Philippine Vice President Inday Sara Duterte, insist that this action taken by Facebook is “legit” after having been “checked”… Critics of…

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Media

SMNI should take stock of the lessons that can be learned from the “plights” of ABS-CBN and Rappler

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SMNI should take stock of the lessons that can be learned from the “plights” of ABS-CBN and Rappler

That Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) finds itself neck-deep in trouble comes as no surprise. Like its Yellowtard counterpart Rappler, SMNI sprung out of nowhere at a time when the Philippines’ political situation demanded targeted media coverage in aid of certain politicians’ personal agendas. The readily-evident relationships at the top make its intent a foregone…

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Crime, Media

Marcos Loyalists like @TheaDTan continue to pretend there is no organised demolition campaign against the Dutertes

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Marcos Loyalists like @TheaDTan continue to pretend there is no organised demolition campaign against the Dutertes

Diplomats normally pursue peaceful solutions and don’t agitate for war. Does House Speaker Martin Romualdez really want a shooting war to breakout between the US and China over the Philippines? The Marcos Loyalists praise President Bongbong Marcos for his hardline stance on Philippine sovereignty over the so-called disputed areas when this is clearly not the…

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Media, Politics

House Speaker Martin Romualdez is the new Mar Roxas

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House Speaker Martin Romualdez is the new Mar Roxas

What else do you call what House Speaker Martin Romualdez is doing touring the palengkes, schmoozing with the little people, and personally doling out food scraps, all before the cameras? Certainly there is something better a Speaker of the House of Representatives could do with official time paid for by Filipino taxpayers. NEWS UPDATE: House…

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Media, Politics

Shutdown SMNI and Seize Quiboloy’s Assets!

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Shutdown SMNI and Seize Quiboloy’s Assets!

There is a call from certain sectors for the Marcos Junior Administration to shutdown SMNI and seize Apollo Quiboloy’s assets in connection with the warrant for his arrest by the FBI. Likewise other sectors say that Quiboloy being strongly sympathetic to China, could make for a dangerous confluence with suspected armed Chinese sleeper cells in…

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Patricia Evangelista’s bullshit published on The @NewYorker

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Patricia Evangelista’s bullshit published on The @NewYorker

The basic problem with Rappler‘s journalists has always been their reportage adheres to the cliché of the “rules-based international order,” which is whatever is the latest dictate in the West about social and moral mores. At the country level, they don’t bother to take into account what the reality is on the ground. The latest…

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Crime, Media