Category: Media

Squeaky Wheel RJ Nieto Should Stop Blaming The DFA and PCOO for the ICC Prelim Exam

April 6, 2018April 6, 2018 P. Farol 7 Comments

With a supporter like RJ Nieto, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte won’t need enemies. In his over DESPERATION to win some credibility as a journalist and project himself as being someone who has highly placed sources in Malacanang, he is wittingly or unwittingly giving the impression that President Duterte’s cabinet is in disarray. This goes against…

Government, Media

The Philippines’ Roman Catholic Church should be taxed and its books opened to public scrutiny

April 3, 2018 benign0 14 Comments

Consider the vastness of the money-making machine that the Philippine Roman Catholic Church is. None of its activities including those that are financially profitable are currently taxed by the Philippine government. Catholic education alone, for example, is an expensive premium service that even the wealthiest of Filipinos clamber over one another to partake of. Yet…

Education, Media, Money Talks, Religion

Andanar’s Attackers Are Clueless Dogs In The Manger

April 3, 2018 P. Farol 3 Comments

Just before the Holy Week holiday, Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar received a bit of flak for misprinted press IDs and a mislabeled transcription of a radio interview of Special Assistant to the President Bong Go. His attackers made it seem that the secretary’s duties revolved around proof reading and arranging media interviews INSTEAD of…

Government, Media

Rappler journalists act like onion-skinned cry-babies

April 2, 2018 Ilda 3 Comments

Let us talk about Rappler. Yes, the online news site that serves up content more like a well-oiled blogsite. There is a lot to be said about a supposed media company whose writers write more about themselves than the news itself. First, the organisation found itself in hot water and is now facing possible closure…

Media

‘Fake News’ crusader Maria Ressa uses Wikipedia as reference for ‘fake news’ accusations!

March 31, 2018March 31, 2018 benign0 11 Comments

What possessed Rappler CEO Maria Ressa to post a link to an FHM Philippines article that then links to a Wikipedia article that exhibits a “List of Philippine Fake News Sites”? Everyone knows that Wikipedia is not a reliable source of “news”. Yet here is the self-appointed “thought leader” on all things digital, a crusader…

Media

Filipinos need to be taught how to think and not to simply believe

March 28, 2018 benign0 19 Comments

Filipinos need to learn how to think. It is imperative that they do because many things about the 21st Century demand an uplift in thinking. We can see how important this is in the recent events that have plunged Western-style democracy into crisis. It had become evident that men working with machines could turn human…

Media, Politics, Society

Local Journalism’s Adversarial Role is Overrated

March 23, 2018March 24, 2018 ChinoF 12 Comments

After writing about journalists not being special, sometimes sacrificing truth and opposing for opposing’s sake, further reading revealed to me that some journalists act as they do because they believe journalists should be adversarial. Because of the belief that journalists are “defenders of democracy,” which in turn is partly because of the recommendations of the…

Culture, Media

Philippines’ withdrawal from the International Criminal Court is a source of REAL national pride

March 20, 2018 benign0 32 Comments

“Proud to be Pinoy” is an oft-heard phrase when it comes to world champion boxers and beauty pageant contestants. That’s because it makes perfect sense that the “winner” coming out of a couple of boys pounding one another silly on a ring or an array of girls strutting around in bikinis on a stage could…

Government, Media, Society