Category: Media

Journalists – or anyone after all – are not A Special Breed

January 25, 2018January 25, 2018 ChinoF 2 Comments

All the recent hullabaloo about Rappler and similar journalists likely come from the opinion that journalists are a special breed. Because the self-declared mission of journalists is to uncover the truth, journalism is supposed to be a “special profession,” and journalists are “special,” and so they deserve “special” treatment and protection. Really, all sorts of…

Media

Does Maria Ressa want Facebook banned in the Philippines?

January 24, 2018January 31, 2018 benign0 6 Comments

Embattled Rappler CEO Maria Ressa seems to think it should be. According to Ressa, content allowed by Facebook to be shared on its site “threatens the country’s democracy.” Ressa adds… “We’re seeing our democracy eroding in front of our eyes and Facebook is the platform where it’s happening.” Ressa’s concern lies in planned changes to…

Media, Tech Talk

Lazy journalism: Is Filipino public sentiment really against Mocha Uson’s UST award?

January 24, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

So Mocha Uson plans to return her “Thomasian Alumni Award for Government Service” and University of Santo Tomas (UST) Alumni Association president Henry Tenedero has resigned following unfavourable “Netizens’ reactions”. Both are responses to the “public backlash” resulting from the latter granting this award to the earlier. Presumably, the so-called negative “Netizens’ reactions” is representative…

Media

Maria Ressa’s arrogance and sense of entitlement is ruining the Philippines’ reputation

January 23, 2018 Ilda 28 Comments

The concept behind the term accountability is not something some people find easy to understand. Taking accountability for one’s action seems so hard to do especially for people in denial they were in the wrong. There are some people who simply do not have the ability for introspection and blame others when they get in…

Media

“Press freedom” was killed by Filipino LAZINESS and not by the Philippine government

January 21, 2018January 21, 2018 benign0 20 Comments

The so-called “Black Friday Defend Press Freedom” rally organised to re-package Rappler‘s corporate compliance issue into a “press freedom” issue turned out to be a mere fart in the wind. The rally, held at a Quezon City roundabout commemorating boy scouts who died in a plane crash, did not attract enough participants to fill even…

Media, Politics, Society

Jover Laurio and her former call centre employer may have violated Australian privacy laws

January 20, 2018July 6, 2018 benign0 11 Comments

According to the latest Western media feature, “popular” Filipino blogger Jover Laurio worked for an Australian call centre before her rise to “fame” as blogger and “thought leader” of the Philippine Opposition. This is particularly relevant to me as Laurio had some time ago used information she had somehow obtained about my private residence and…

Media, Politics

The Real Threats to Press Freedom in the Philippines

January 20, 2018January 20, 2018 ChinoF 6 Comments

With the revoking of Rappler’s license to operate as a business, “opposition” were hopping mad about it being a dictatorship move and suppression of freedom of speech. But those are not what happened. What happened is that one of the real threats to press freedom and freedom of expression was brought to account. I’m not…

Media

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is a FAKE VICTIM because she is a crime SUSPECT

January 19, 2018 benign0 14 Comments

It would seem, indeed, that Rappler was “targetted” by the Philippine government when it was singled out for shut down through action channeled via the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on charges of accepting foreign funds in exchange for some degree of control. Some “journalists” have incorporated that notion into the “assault on free speech”…

Crime, Media