Category: Media

The death of Jover Laurio’s @PinoyAkoBlog is classic death-by-Yellow treachery

January 3, 2019 Ilda 9 Comments

Philippine Liberal Party’s main blogger Jover Laurio has been exposed as celebrity and ex-Presidential sister, Kris Aquino’s beneficiary. Of course Laurio didn’t want this important information to go public, but she had no choice but to admit that she did accept funds to boost her posts on social networking site Facebook. She wrote a blog…

Media, Politics

It’s time REAL techos take back the discussion on social media influence!

January 3, 2019January 3, 2019 benign0 8 Comments

Social media “experts” like most Rappler “journalists” and “influencers” like Noemi Dado, a.k.a. @momblogger, don’t have tech backgrounds. Yet they contribute so much noise to discussions about subjects like these. When will people like, say, Manila Bulletin Tech Editor Art Samaniego really weigh in on the discussion more assertively? In a Recode interview, for example,…

Media, Society, Tech Talk

What does Maria Ressa’s participation in New York City’s #NYE2018 festivities mean?

January 2, 2019 benign0 12 Comments

Nothing, really. But according to the Girls’ Club that is today’s mainstream Big Corporate News Media, Ressa is “a journalist in the Philippines whose news site, Rappler, has been threatened by the country’s authoritarian president, Rodrigo Duterte”. And so, on that dubious “achievement” reported by no less than chi chi New York Times, she gets…

Media

Desperately wanted: COMPETENT Opposition bloggers!

December 30, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

In her recent Manila Times piece, A social media wish list for 2019, social media “expert” Noemi Dado issues a call-to-action for Netizens for the coming new year 2019: “It is time to replace or concentrate on personal websites or blogs, instead of Facebook, as the main platform.” Dado likely built this idea on the…

Media, Politics

Would you buy Rappler’s “exclusive content” for P3500 a year?

December 27, 2018December 29, 2018 benign0 14 Comments

In its most recent project, “social news” site Rappler is promoting a new members-only service its audience could opt into for 3,500 pesos a year. The new service, Rappler PLUS, offers members access to… …exclusive content that gives deeper perspective on a wide range of topics, as well as opportunities for collaboration with other members…

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Detoxing from Big Corporate Social Media and a return to REAL “social networking”

December 21, 2018 benign0 3 Comments

As many of our closest followers know by now, we had recently launched GRPsupport.com (currently in BETA). It’s the equivalent of a home-cooked social networking meal with all-natural ingredients sourced from the Net’s most trusted organic digital farms and none of the artificial toxicity of the mass-produced “services” on offer in Big Corporate Social Media…

Media, Society, Tech Talk

Is there REALLY a “War on Truth” as @TIME Magazine asserts?

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 benign0 68 Comments

According to TIME Magazine, the world is in the midst of an information holocaust — a “war on truth” in what had become parlance in an industry being torn apart by a crisis of relevance. If there is any war being waged it is all in the heads of the captains of these sinking boats….

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Media industry congratulating itself as @TIME “persons of the year” choices prove

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 benign0 23 Comments

And traditional media leaders wonder why their industry is in decline. Part of the writing is on the wall seeing how former iconic giants like TIME Magazine are going all out congratulating their own. One of the phoney heroes this beleaguered industry is propping up is embattled Rappler CEO Maria Ressa who is included as…

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