Category: Media

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…

Media

Filipinos should seize the opportunity to define themselves on their own terms NOW

December 10, 2018 benign0 23 Comments

If there is something deeper that would characterise the last two to three years, it is an increased confusion around Filipinos’ sense of identity as a people. Filipinos no longer enjoy the benefit of being told who they are. This is thanks to the rise of the Net and, specifically, its killer app — social…

Development, Media, Society

So Now A Christmas Song Is Really Talking About Date Rape

December 6, 2018December 6, 2018 Gogs 10 Comments

I am finding the nearest nuclear bunker. Locally we are witnessing the simultaneous crucifixion of Maria Ressa , journalism, good manners, good looks and civilization. Abroad the #metoo movement has worked its way into banning staple holiday songs. Over the next few paragraphs I will make a case about censorship and assignment of meaning but…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Society

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa blocks people on Twitter because she cannot HANDLE dissent!

December 5, 2018December 5, 2018 benign0 17 Comments

After calling Get Real Post writer @Ilda_talk a “minor minor blogger” and copping a bit of flak out of that major major lapse in judgement, the CEO of Rappler Maria Ressa has decided that she’s had enough of the healthy dose of dissent she’s been attracting. This is coming from a person who fancies herself…

Media

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is ALONE in her paranoid fear that “press freedom” is “under threat”

December 3, 2018 benign0 16 Comments

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is in bad need of a healthy dose of humility. Of late, she’s been busy screeching about an imagined “attack on press freedom” supposedly being perpetrated by the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. This is, interestingly enough, after she was slapped with charges of tax evasion by the Department of…

Media

Rappler and its CEO Maria Ressa have become focused on “activism” rather than on REAL journalism

December 3, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

Both mainstream media and personalities associated with the increasingly desperate “voice” of the mainstream continue to screech about “fake news” and their imagined “assault on press freedom”. These two things are nebulous notions at best as “fake news” had become a mere catch-all used to describe anything someone finds personally disagreeable and “press freedom” is…

Crime, Media

Maria Ressa plays the “Assault on Press Freedom” card again

December 3, 2018December 3, 2018 benign0 6 Comments

With the impending arrest of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, the usual clique “social justice warriors” (SJWs) are up in arms. But the Philippine government’s stand on the matter remains consistent. A statement released by the Department of Justice reads… Assistant State Prosecutor Zenamar Machacon-Caparros upheld the complaint filed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)…

Crime, Media

We need to find a peacetime use for social media

November 23, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

Like most technologies that permeate society today, social media, as it turns out, originally came of age as a weapon. Though it was originally pitched as a peachy digital hangout for catching up with friends and as a platform for “activism” aimed at fostering “social good”, what it is really being used for today is…

Lifestyle, Media, Tech Talk