Category: Media

Does Jover Laurio symbolise for Filipinos what it means to be a great people?

January 8, 2018 benign0 8 Comments

Craig Nelson introduces his book Rocketmen, with the story of a 1969 United States Senate briefing (shortly after Apollo 11 landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon) where Fermilab physicist Robert Wilson is asked how a $250 million atom smasher he proposes be built will contribute to the security of the United States….

Culture, Media, Society

The Inquirer outed itself as a Liberal Party backer when it named Jover Laurio “Filipino of the Year”

January 8, 2018 Ilda 13 Comments

Who holds a monopoly on the “truth”? According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, members of the Opposition do. The publication recently named their 2017 Filipinos of the Year and with the exception of members of the military and police officers who served in Marawi City, most of the people included in the list are those…

Media, Politics

“Cleaning up toxic waste” – can Rappler’s Maria Ressa get Facebook to get rid of pro-Duterte accounts?

December 31, 2017January 1, 2018 FallenAngel 7 Comments

A comment on social media asks: who would win? A social media “giant”? Or a bunch of Filipinos tapping away on Facebook? In this case, the former pertains to none other than Rappler CEO Maria Ressa. On the other side, you’ve got a great many Filipino Facebook (FB) users who also happen to be supporters…

Media, Politics, Tech Talk

Western media clueless about Philippine affairs, easily falls for Maria Ressa’s desperate lies

December 31, 2017December 31, 2017 benign0 22 Comments

The year 2017 is drawing to a close and, despite the emotional screeching of Philippine Opposition elements, the country does not seem any more “authoritarian” (or not authoritarian) than it was back at the dawn of 2016. Just the same, the objective fact that the Philippines remains as “democratic” as it’s ever supposedly been does…

Media, Politics

Liberation from the Liberal Party: Should Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg be named a Philippine hero?

December 30, 2017 zaxx 21 Comments

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook platform gave Filipinos what Noynoy’s Liberal Party administration failed to deliver: Freedom of Information. Facebook broke the chains that held Filipinos captive for decades – bound to the deception and mass propaganda of the Liberal Party and their Yellowtard media machinery, which relentlessly spewed out toxic praises to the fake hero and…

Media, Politics

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa spreads fake news that Duterte is “authoritarian” and Zuckerberg is “greedy”

December 30, 2017 Ilda 18 Comments

There are people who show their ignorance without realising it. These people champion themselves as moral crusaders and behave like they are God’s gifts to humanity. They think they have the moral high-ground when it comes to how people should conduct themselves especially on social media. Take the case of social news network Rappler CEO…

Media, Politics

We are still waiting for @MariaRessa to “take back the Internet”

December 29, 2017January 20, 2022 benign0 7 Comments

Recall the famous call of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa to “take back the Internet” (or something to that effect) more than a year ago. It was a call dripping in self-righteous pomposity which my colleague ChinoF wrote about… One of the country’s prominent mainstream media personalities in this country posted, “Time to Take back the…

Media

A desperate Maria Ressa blames Facebook for Rappler’s inevitable demise

December 29, 2017 benign0 27 Comments

Maria Ressa, CEO of “social news site” Rappler has gone too far. Rather than own up to her failure to build a credible news media organisation that could compete in the free market of ideas, she, instead, takes it upon herself to appoint Facebook as “the new gatekeeper to information” and then proceed to accuse…

Media, Politics