Category: Media

The Philippine Mainstream Media Vs. The Filipino People’s Self-Worth

October 3, 2016 Grimwald 12 Comments

I’ve already said what I needed to say about over-romanticism in mainstream Philippine media. Many times over in fact, now that I have time to recall. ChinoF, in his article here, even points out how the mainstream media is (often subtly but sometimes insultingly overtly) trying to convince its audiences that they aren’t beautiful (even…

Culture, Media, Society

Could the Philippine Daily Inquirer be charged for inciting sedition?

October 2, 2016 benign0 64 Comments

See what I just did here? That is the same thing the Inquirer is doing in its 1st October 2016 front page. “Heil Digong?” is splashed in big bold print. But read the actual article and you will find the small clarification on the matter (italics mine for emphasis): “Duterte appeared to liken himself to…

Media

How The Mainstream Philippine Media Is Killing Our Cultural Identity And Imagination

October 2, 2016 Grimwald 10 Comments

It’s that time of the year again and while a lot of us are busy with preparing for Christmas, I’m busying myself with creating Halloween stories to tell for those who may want to listen. As I’ve said many times before, my year simply doesn’t feel complete without a period of fearful stories and mysterious…

Culture, Media, Society

Alternative Media 17: The Witch (A Must-See Horror Flick For This Halloween)

October 1, 2016 Grimwald 1 Comment

Well ladies and gentlemen, it’s October and we are just days away from good ol’ Halloween. Truth be told, as a matter of my family’s tradition, I never go out of my way to prepare early for Christmas. I tend to think of each year as a cycle of sorts and my year simply doesn’t…

Culture, Film Review, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Religion

The kind of “sexy” that Jessy Mendiola sells

September 30, 2016October 1, 2016 FallenAngel 11 Comments

Running through the highlights for the month of September 2016 would seem incomplete without mentioning Jessy Mendiola’s being on the cover of FHM (For Him Magazine) Philippines. It also looks like she’ll be making the cover of Cosmpolitan PH for its October 2016 issue. My colleague Ilda wrote about Jessy last July, in the context…

Glitz and Glamour, Media

On the crybaby response of mainstream “journalists” to online trolls

September 30, 2016September 30, 2016 benign0 77 Comments

You’d think the way this cadre of “journalists” now “come together” to comfort one another “in a time of trolls” that trolling is such a new and unprecedented scourge in the business of online content production. “I still think that journalists who think themselves worth their profession should come together and look at this as…

Media, Politics

CHR report that the Philippine Government’s “war on drugs targets the poor” is a lie

September 27, 2016 benign0 32 Comments

In a report submitted to the United Nations the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) reportedly asserts that the Philippine Government’s war on drugs targets the poor. Citing statements made by Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Ronald “Bato” M. dela Rosa during a Senate inquiry, the CHR also noted that more than a thousand deaths…

Crime, Media

Remembering Elias’s Legacy

September 26, 2016 Batangenyo 34 Comments

There’s one fact that we Filipinos cannot accept – we are being manufactured. We are being mass-produced by this elitist society and we are not aware of it. Why? Because we chose to ignore the rays of understanding that we could have if we took off the shadow of ignorance that conceals us from reality. Over…

Culture, Education, Government, Media, Politics, Society

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