Category: Media

Sure, ban K-dramas. While we’re at it, let’s ban Filipino teleseryes too!

October 20, 2022 benign0 5 Comments

Just ban them all. To what end do these idiotic programmes serve Filipinos aspirations to become a great people someday? Will these contribute to transforming the Philippines from a Third to a First World country over the next two to three decades? The argument around whether the Philippines’ entertainment industry needs more — or less…

Development, Education, Media

Another critique of Marxism and Wokeness: Hegel’s Dialectic and other Philosophical roots

August 4, 2022August 21, 2022 ChinoF 16 Comments

My earlier critique of Marxism, Communism and Leftism was based on my own layman understanding of the movement and its effects. Then I learned from a Youtube video with Catholic author Noelle Mering that Georg W. Hegel’s philosophical dialectic was a major factor in its development. This made me think, maybe a critique based on…

Culture, Media, Society

UK Immigration, Lies in History and Wokeness Debunked by Simon Webb

July 19, 2022July 19, 2022 ChinoF 64 Comments

Since history was recently the topic of the hour, I’ll let you know I’ve been watching History Debunked by Simon Webb on Youtube. His tagline is that the popular view of history is not necessarily the correct one. Indeed, some views become corrected as new information becomes available, such as learning that the Vikings did…

Culture, History, Media

Mass media exist to serve Filipinos, not indulge their fantasy entitlement to “press freedom”

July 3, 2022 benign0 22 Comments

Now that the worst Yellowtard nightmare has transpired — the ascent to power of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. — mass media “activists” are on edge. They now engage in preemptive fear mongering that the Marcos administration will be coming down hard on the industry which, you guessed it, heralds the start of their much-anticipated…

Media

Communist publications @PinoyWeekly and @Bulatlat BANNED; discredited Opposition “journalists” scramble to their defense

June 22, 2022June 22, 2022 benign0 8 Comments

Following an order issued by the Philippines’ National Security Council to block Internet access to “news sites allegedly linked to communist rebels”, various media groups and “journalists” associated with the Philippine Opposition and its communist allies are up in arms again invoking that all-too-familiar “attack on press freedom” trope. The cast of characters in this…

Crime, Media

Incoming PCOO Head Trixie Cruz Angeles is Showing She’s Way Above Her Pay Grade and Other Emerging Appointment Booboos

June 9, 2022 P. Farol 12 Comments

On the matter of getting appointed to a cabinet position or government agency under the incoming second Marcos administration, it does well to behave with the humility and restraint of my best friend’s Aunty, Dr. Clarita Carlos. Yes, that one. When I came across an excel sheet that had the name of a government agency…

Government, Media, Politics

Traditional “journalists”, suck it up: You no longer hold a monopoly over mass communication.

June 6, 2022April 28, 2023 benign0 19 Comments

One can quite understand why traditional “journalists” are going all shrill about the prospect of having to compete with bloggers for the privilege to reach a mass audience. After all, they once enjoyed a monopoly over that space. Before the advent of the Internet and, particularly, social media, mass communication was a capital-intensive activity. You…

Media

Why Rappler should be BANNED from covering Malacañang

May 27, 2022 benign0 71 Comments

President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. ran under a “unity” platform and it seems he is making good on this. He is now putting together a diverse team to help run the new Philippine Government and has even included a strong economic team with a good number of noted and highly-qualified technocrats. This is contrary to…

Media