Category: Media

Maria Ressa’s obsession with Facebook is like that of a jilted lover over her ex

October 30, 2018October 30, 2018 benign0 21 Comments

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa just can’t stop once she gets started about Facebook. Indeed, she got started on Facebook way back when she threw a massive embrace around the gargantuan social media platform in the early days when she pitched her organisation as a “social news network”. Like many media organisations at the time, Rappler…

Media, Tech Talk

Leila De Lima is fair game for comedy acts. Get over yourselves!

October 22, 2018 benign0 13 Comments

Opposition social media “activists” have recently been up in arms over the portrayal by a popular comedy act of Opposition Senator Leila De Lima who is in prison on charges of drug trafficking. In last Saturday’s episode of Vice Ganda’s It’s Showtime, Ganda and singer Jugs Jugueta made reference to De Lima’s incarceration with Ganda…

Glitz and Glamour, Media

Article on self-important Rappler anti-fake-news “soldiers” published by @NYTimesWorld

October 10, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

You gotta hand it to the circlejerk relationship Rappler manages to cling on to with the New York Times. This recent article, Soldiers in Facebook’s War on Fake News Are Feeling Overrun makes like CEO Maria Ressa’s Rapplerettes are on a mission from God. The tone of the piece goes beyond drama into the realm…

Media, Tech Talk

Slug Headed Raissa Robles Publicly Displays Her Stupid Misunderstanding of Resolution of Both Houses Number 15

October 9, 2018October 9, 2018 P. Farol 5 Comments

What sets apart Raissa Robles and other yellow journos from the rest of the paid hacks that litter mainstream news media is that paid hacks can blame their patrons for whatever stupidity they publish. Raissa and her ilk only have themselves to blame for the mindless, delusional, and paranoid rants that they flood social media…

Government, Media

Prices beyond the reach of poor Filipinos because of “woke” millennials promoted by Rappler

October 8, 2018October 8, 2018 benign0 25 Comments

The term “millennial” does not have noble origins. It is actually a concept cooked up by marketers and brand managers several years ago who wanted nothing more than a convenient catch-all for the next generation of suckers to sell useless stuff to. Millennials — specially in the setting of prosperous East Asian economies — are…

Lifestyle, Media, Money Talks

Gretchen Fullido sexual harassment scandal in a time of man-shaming

October 6, 2018October 6, 2018 Kate Natividad 10 Comments

Well well well — charges of sexual misconduct among women. I find it a bit rich in a day and age when people’s timelines are filled with voices decrying women’s victimhood in the hands of men that this latest brouhaha surrounding Gretchen Fullido’s charges of sexual harassment against ABS-CBN News execs would suddenly break. If…

Media, Society

Filipinos have Mocha Uson and the Yellowtards have Jover Laurio. Who’s gonna win?

October 4, 2018 benign0 12 Comments

Now that former Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson is a private citizen, she can start blogging. Like a real blogger. Just like that other one who’s been styled by no less than Rappler and its community of Jesuit- and nun-educated cheerleaders as the preeminent blogger of the Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the…

Media, Politics

Everything reported by Rappler reporter @PiaRanada about Duterte’s Israel trip was fake and malicious

September 15, 2018September 15, 2018 benign0 12 Comments

According to a reliable source who was on the ground and directly involved in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s official visit to Israel early September this year, the trip was, hands down, an absolute success. The interest in the trip coming from the business community was particularly overwhelming. Many requests from Israeli businessmen on top of…

Media