Category: Media

BBC journo Stephen Sackur exposes idiocy of “senator” Antonio Trillanes on live TV!

June 22, 2017 benign0 4 Comments

Journalist Stephen Sackur shows the rest of the world’s “journalists” how it’s done on his BBC talk show HARDtalk where he put Philippine “senator” Antonio Trillanes IV through the wringer. Trillanes is one of the harshest critics of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and, by far, the most rabid — like a dog with a bone…

Government, Media, Politics

Philippine society cannot change unless Filipinos change the way they think

June 6, 2017 benign0 8 Comments

Recent events have once again proven how important information is. Now an overused cliché, it is still worth reminding, in this age of the Internet and social media, how fast information can spread. While the human mind is wired to respond quickly to stories, it is not particularly well-equipped to evaluate data outside of an…

Culture, Development, Media, Politics

Sorority blog @RapplerDotCom stood alone in screaming “TERRORIST!” during the Resorts World attack

June 5, 2017 benign0 6 Comments

In hindsight, it was “social news network” Rappler.com that stood alone as the only key organisation of significant influence screaming bloody terrorism and shrieking “ISIS!” as Resorts World burned. 37 innocent people died that night, not because they were infidels but because they unwittingly had already been trapped by circumstance when they first entered the…

Crime, Lifestyle, Media

Resorts World siege made deadlier by irresponsible media reports and lapses in building safety compliance

June 4, 2017June 5, 2017 Ilda 6 Comments

The Resorts World Manila siege on the 2nd of June that resulted in the deaths of 37 and injured more than 50 people highlighted yet again how unsafe the facilities are and how precarious the security situation is in the Philippines even inside world class establishments. The incident also shows the role media plays in adding to…

Crime, Government, Media

Why do Filipino activists complain more about Martial Law than terrorism?

June 1, 2017 benign0 19 Comments

Ask anyone and they will agree that Terrorism directly equates to innocent people’s unnecessary deaths and suffering. So in light of recent days’ events, it is baffling the way certain “activists” screech so loudly about Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of Martial Law. A quick-and-dirty sampling of social media content shows that Martial Law-related tweets…

Government, Media, Politics, Society

Compromising OPSEC: Philippine media have learned NOTHING ever since the Luneta incident!

May 26, 2017May 26, 2017 FallenAngel 5 Comments

Chalk it up to good old fashioned stubbornness on Philippine media’s part, maybe. However, one does not really have to be trained in the military to know what operations security (OPSEC) entails. Though an official definition is rather wordy, the spirit of it is that sensitive, or potentially compromising, information is very carefully handled, so…

Crime, Media, The South

Mocha Uson’s critics overestimate their capacity to influence the ‘masa’

May 13, 2017 Ilda 13 Comments

Are you one of those people who are reeling with anger over singer/dancer and social media blogger Mocha Uson’s appointment as assistant secretary of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO)? Do you feel so outraged that you have resorted to slut-shaming Uson? If you are, then you are a loser. Those of you who think…

Government, Media

Mocha Uson fit for Duterte’s social media messaging but more needed to engage critics productively

May 12, 2017 benign0 4 Comments

Building a credible media machine to counter the anti-government bias of traditional media led by big corporate networks is not a simple matter of fielding “die-hard” loyalists on social media. It involves building a consistent media brand that, in the long run is perceived to be apolitical or, at the very least, non-partisan. It is…

Government, Media