Category: Media

On The Real Enemies and Traitors Of The Fourth Estate (Part Two: Syndicates)

December 1, 2017 P. Farol 3 Comments

Yesterday I wrote about Hataw columnist Mat Vicencio and took issue over his deafening silence when it comes to even just mentioning the name of the suspected mastermind of Bislig radio broadcaster Christopher Lozada. Friends noted that while Vicencio ran a series of columns criticizing then viciously attacking Presidential Task Force on Media Security Executive…

Government, Media

On The Real Enemies and Traitors of the Fourth Estate

November 30, 2017November 30, 2017 P. Farol 4 Comments

(Disclaimer: While I am no longer part of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security or PTFoMS, I continue to support its mandate under President Duterte’s Administrative Order 1 which is to protect journalists from harassment, threats, and violence.) Friends from the larger circle of people I go around in tipped me off that a…

Government, Media

Facts matter in the Philippines, but only the facts that favour its elite

November 29, 2017November 29, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

The irony in the clique of “social media influencers” who hosted an event dubbed a forum on “Truth, Trust, and Democracy in the Age of Selfies, Trolls and Bots” just flies over people’s pointed heads. The event was organised “by the Journalism for Nation Building Foundation (JNBF), Rappler, and other stakeholder groups”. This is not…

Media, Politics, Society

Filipinos can overcome ‘fake news’ by developing more CURIOSITY #FactsMatterPH

November 28, 2017 benign0 11 Comments

Indeed, Filipinos need to be reminded that “facts matter”. That’s because Filipinos were not raised at home nor trained in school to build factual bases for what they believe in. In most cases, Filipino kids are told what to think rather than taught how to think. It is challenging too considering that Philippine society is…

Culture, Media

Filipinos Are Freer Under Duterte

November 27, 2017 P. Farol 3 Comments

In the days after the declaration of Martial Law, merely criticizing former President Ferdinand Marcos could get one picked up and there are claims that many of those picked up simply disappeared. Fear of speaking against Marcos back then was such that a friend’s mother (a college professor at a state university) buried several books…

Government, Media

Filipinos, get 100% behind your Army and prepare to CRUSH the terrorist New People’s Army!

November 24, 2017May 13, 2021 benign0 25 Comments

Now that the Philippine government will be in an “all-out” war against the New People’s Army (NPA), the terrorist arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines, it is worth exploring some lessones learnt from the recent war that liberated Marawi City from similar terrorist elements. To be sure, a war against the NPA will…

Culture, Government, Media

CJ Lourdes Sereno faces the wrath of a Filipino public clamouring for her impeachment

November 22, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

The impeachment “trial” of Supreme Court Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno is an exercise that is political in nature — because it is a process conducted in and governed by Congress where popularity holds currency (in contrast to trials done in a court of law where standards to ensure logic and reason prevail are higher and…

Media, Politics

The Misleading Headlines of GMA7’s and News5’s “Gov’t Keyboard Army” Story

November 18, 2017 P. Farol 11 Comments

The news websites of GMA7 and News5 published articles with the misleading claim that Washington based NGO Freedom House had published a report where it said that the Duterte Administration was employing “keyboard armies”. But no where in the Freedom House report titled “Freedom on the Net 2017″ was it specifically and clearly stated that the…

Media

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