Category: Media

Senator Grace Poe should RESIGN following the ABS-CBN conflict-of-interest fiasco!

February 28, 2020 benign0 7 Comments

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…

Crime, Media

Karen Davila failed to pin blame for ABS-CBN franchise non-renewal on Duterte during Panelo interview

February 22, 2020 Ilda 7 Comments

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…

Crime, Media

Supporters of ABS-CBN represent the interests of the oligarchy and NOT of the Filipino people

February 22, 2020February 22, 2020 benign0 9 Comments

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…

Crime, Media

Emotional testimonials from fans won’t change FACTS nor help ABS-CBN in court

February 16, 2020 Ilda 4 Comments

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…

Media

Stopping ABS-CBN’s Franchise Renewal By Hook and By Crook

February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 P. Farol 4 Comments

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…

Government, Media, Politics

How Filipinos can fix their broken “democracy”

February 8, 2020 benign0 4 Comments

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…

Media, Politics, Religion

Speaker Cayetano Holds Hostage the Livelihood of Thousands of ABS-CBN Employees

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 P. Farol 5 Comments

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…

Media, Politics

Why Preempt Congress from Deciding on ABS-CBN’s Franchise Renewal?

January 24, 2020January 25, 2020 P. Farol 3 Comments

“Why are Duterte and their minions so afraid to allow Congress’ franchise hearings on ABS-CBN? Because that’s where all facts are laid bare and made public: documents, expert testimonies, official records, witnesses. No fake news, no trolling. Just the facts. #holdABSCBNhearingsnow #thinkaboutit” That was the message I received early this morning days after the Quo…

Media

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