We beg to differ.
After making an ass of themselves slandering the effort to prepare for the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, the Philippine media have a lot of work to do to redeem themselves. To do this, they will need to prove that they are worthy of re-earning the public trust that they had lost. This means they need…
On Twitter a friend in the public relations circle pointed out an exchange between Trixie Cruz Angeles and Nic Gabunada which he found funny. I looked it over and found it a bit ironic. If you didn’t know these people, you’d think it was just one popular Twitter user talking to another popular Twitter user…
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If people think imposing more controls on social media will change the fortunes of Big Traditional Corporate News Media, they’ll likely be in for a shock. The truth about “journalism” is that it is a profession that relies on a rather primitive aspect of the human condition — emotionalism. “Journalists” are in constant search of…
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It’s time. Many Filipinos and their “thought leaders” have been criticising the role social media giant Facebook had supposedly been playing in skewing political chatter. Many argue that it had become a platform for “disinformation” and “fake news”. More importantly — in particular, to the oligarchs who are losing money in their once-profitable media businesses…
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Leni Robredo got herself into another embarassing pickle again. Back on the 23rd October, Reuters published the report “Philippine vice president says time for Duterte to halt failed drug war”. Most political observers would agree that this headline pretty much sums up Robredo’s position on the matter. In a subsequent statement translated to English by…
Has anyone noticed that commie “activists” have never denied their links to the terrorist New People’s Army? That’s because they can’t. They’ve already lied enough to Filipinos over the last century, but the silence that surrounds their links to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its terrorist arm, the New People’s Army (NPA)…
Far from being Solomonic, word has it that MMDA General Manager (GM) Jojo Garcia has thrown MMDA Spokeswoman Celine Pialago under the bus in exchange for good publicity for himself from ABS-CBN News reporter Doris Bigornia. In a letter written by Garcia to Bigornia, the MMDA GM described Pialago’s complaint on Bigornia’s attack on her…
The explosive tale of the toxic behaviour of of ABS-CBN “reporter” Doris Bigornia is on fire but, unfortunately, this is just the most recent instance of inappropriate and unprofessional behaviour in the chequered history of the Philippines’ biggest media conglomerate. The case of Bigornia, by itself, is quite extensive. Aside from her reported altercation with…
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