Category: Media

Jover Laurio’s wedding is the world’s LEAST-REPORTED Wedding of the Year

January 21, 2019January 21, 2019 benign0 7 Comments

Considering that Jover Laurio, venerable blogger of Opposition website Pinoy Ako Blog, was crowned Filipino “Person of the Year” by the Philippines’ biggest broadsheet in 2017, her wedding Saturday enjoyed a virtual news blackout. Consider too that her guest list and, most notable of all, her list of sponsors is a who’s-who of Crazy Rich…

Glitz and Glamour, Media

Democracy’s and its social media politics’ TEN YEAR Challenge

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 benign0 6 Comments

We are definitely overdue for a “Next Big Thing” innovation explosion of the sort that happened in the mid-2000s. Back then, social media came out of nowhere to seize the Net, Steve Jobs’s iPod and iPhone pulled the rug from under entire industries, and, over the course of all that, mainstream mass media (and, specially,…

Media, Politics, Tech Talk

Returning @SRsasot’s no-nonsense nod to GRP…

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 benign0 18 Comments

Esteemed political social media blogger Sass Rogando Sasot posted this much-appreciated hat-tip to GRP on Facebook. I may not always agree with GetRealPhilippines.COM. In fact, its founder benign0 and I even acerbically criticised each other’s views before. Yet despite his sarcasm and “pang-asar” tactics, benign0 never dehumanized me. Unlike Jover Laurio funded by Kris Aquino,…

Media, Society

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…

Media