Category: Media

Rodrigo Duterte makes beneficiaries of tradition and status quo uncomfortable

September 18, 2016September 18, 2016 benign0 87 Comments

After being so patient with the snail-paced “reform” initiatives supposedly pushed throughout the six-year term of former President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III, liberal Filipinos are now raising a stink about the methods being emoloyed by current President Rodrigo Duterte to push real change. An overwhelming endorsement of Duterte’s different approach to instituting change during…

Culture, Media, Society

Duterte is turning the Philippines back into a REAL southeast Asian country

September 16, 2016April 28, 2019 benign0 118 Comments

Why the sudden interest of the foreign media in the Philippines? It is because they found a bogeyman in its current president, Rodrigo Duterte, to feast upon. Indeed, Duterte is living up to the smear that goes way back to the campaign leading up to the 2016 elections that he is the “Donald Trump of…

Crime, Culture, Media, Society

My 3 Big Problems With Pinoy Mainstream Superheroes

September 15, 2016 Grimwald 11 Comments

Superheroes. They certainly are making a lot of money on the big screen these days, eh? After all, who doesn’t like them? I know few people who didn’t keep up with at least one superhero in their childhood. For me it was the likes of Spawn and Spider-Man and I found others who I became ingratiated with…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media

Out of Touch: Over-reaction to the Official Gazette post on Marcos’s birthday

September 13, 2016September 13, 2016 Celestino Manrique II 34 Comments

Once again, the issue of burying former President Ferdinand E. Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani has divided the nation. People on both sides of the issue have thrown tirades against each other. The anti-Marcos camp has been more aggressive, citing the so-called Marcos loot and human rights violations under the martial law era….

Media, Politics, Society

Philippines’ extrajudicial violence traces roots to Aquino admin according to The New York Times

September 13, 2016September 29, 2018 Ilda 80 Comments

A New York Times article has confirmed what some of us have been saying all along – that the root of the problem in the Philippines that the current government is facing today can be traced to former President Benigno Simeon Aquino. It is funny though how it had to take foreigners to validate what…

Crime, Media

The Real Pinoy Problem: Colonial Mentality Or Cultural Ignorance

September 10, 2016 Grimwald 36 Comments

There’s certainly been a lot of hullabaloo after President Rodrigo Duterte allegedly cursed American President Barrack Obama. As a matter of fact, there have been more than a few articles written about it as of late. There are those that say that President Rodrigo Duterte should learn some manners or at least some diplomatic tact and then…

Culture, Education, Media

Irresponsible journalism in Philippine Media almost ruined US-Philippine relations

September 8, 2016April 6, 2022 benign0 123 Comments

Thanks to US President Barrack Obama being such a good sport, the flames lit by the irresponsible journalism of both local and foreign media had been doused. “As I said when I was asked about this in China, I don’t take these comments personally because it seems that this is a phrase he’s used repeatedly,…

Media

Should we really be worried about President Duterte’s conduct at international gatherings?

September 6, 2016September 6, 2016 FallenAngel 178 Comments

One could reasonably expect Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to cause an uproar even before he gets on a plane. And he did; the issue, however, should be framed less around what he said about the United States and its president Barack Obama, as the source of uproar, and more around the people interpreting what he…

Media, Politics