Category: Media

Does Taco Bell Philippines Have The Legal Right To Put LeBron James In Their Ads?

July 6, 2023 Gogs 4 Comments

Around this time last year, Forbes Magazine declared LeBron James a billionaire. Tonight something on Facebook made my spidey sense tingle. Nothing gets me more enraged when I see a billionaire allegedly exploited. Is Taco Bell Philippines using the name , image and likeness of LBJ without his consent? This billionaire advocate seeks…

Business, Media, Money Talks

Maria Ressa on a rampage as Reuters Institute report reveals Rappler among LEAST TRUSTED media organisations again

June 17, 2023June 17, 2023 benign0 6 Comments

There’s something to be said about the consistency of Opposition “social news network” Rappler — in both its ability to make itself the news and the quickness of its CEO, Nobel “Peace Prize” laureate Maria Ressa to pounce on its critics. The 2023 Report on Digital Media published by the Oxford University based Reuters Institute…

Media

Filipino movie and TV actors don’t know how to play rich people

April 30, 2023April 30, 2023 benign0 14 Comments

Many people have been wondering why Filipino films and television shows are such massive cringes. On the surface, the most obvious observation is that the emotional hooks used by the template plots of these products are overused and obsolete. Shouting matches, loud monologues, and slapstick chatter pepper stories about “love” between characters from opposite sides…

Business, Culture, Media

The administration of the University of the Philippines is NOT a democracy

April 6, 2023 benign0 2 Comments

In her Inquirer piece “UP Diliman’s top-down leadership” today, columnist Anna Cristina Tuazon laments how “outside observers” are wont to “dismiss” the “passionate, sometimes chaotic expressions of [University of the Philippines (UP)] Diliman students, faculty, and staff” as “disrespectful behavior (or worse, to Red-tag them)”. She then goes on to suggest that members of this…

Education, Media

Why is Leni Robredo still in the news? Because the Philippine Opposition can’t attract REAL political talent.

March 30, 2023 benign0 No Comments

Opposition “thought leaders” decry what they perceive to be a continued haranguing of “former vice president” Leni Robredo. Robredo, we recall “led” the Philippine Opposition to a crushing defeat in the 2022 presidential elections — an election that the Opposition deemed too important to lose. In actual practice, they did not seem to have considered…

Media, Politics

Who Declared The Philippines A Basketball Paradise??

February 22, 2023 Gogs 27 Comments

The Cambridge Dictionary defines league as a group of teams playing a sport who take part in competitions between each other. That same dictionary defines misnomer as a name that does not suit what it refers to, or the use of such a name. They further define paradise as a place or condition of great…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media

Yellowtard “journalists” like @HowieSeverino would rather rely on hearsay information than do REAL research

December 22, 2022 benign0 5 Comments

It all started out as a benign response to a tweet issued by GMA Network “broadcast journalist, anchor, host, documentarist and podcaster” Howie Severino. Evidently (at the time of this writing) travelling from Manila to South Korea soon, the eminent “journalist” tweeted, “Dear recent travelers to Korea, any new Covid/health requirements?” Only wishing to help,…

Lifestyle, Media

What? No words of sympathy from Sarah Elago, Risa Hontiveros, and Inday Espina Varona on the occasion of their leader Joma Sison’s death??

December 18, 2022December 18, 2022 benign0 6 Comments

Crickets… As of this writing, Kabataan Partylist honcho Sarah Elago’s timeline had no sign of any tweet on the subject. And then there is fellow tulisan Risa Hontiveros. Not a peep from the lovely Senator either. Speaking of lovely, no word on the touchy subject as well from communist “journalist” (now Rappler honcho) Inday Espina…

Crime, Media, Politics