We beg to differ.
Maria Ressa is in the news again or, rather, her “social news network” Rappler of which she is CEO made her the news again. This time, the “news” is that she has been granted permission by the Philippines’ Court of Appeals (CA) to travel to the United States to “deliver a series of lectures at…
For anyone who has been observing the Philippine political scene long enough, it is not hard to come to the conclusion that regardless of who wins the presidential election, Filipinos will remain the same mediocre, divided, and self-interested collection of disjoint tribes that they’ve always been. The term of Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino was marked…
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A Change.org petition to recall the Nobel “Peace Prize” awarded to Rappler CEO Maria Ressa was taken offline after garnering more than 120,000 signatures. The petition “Recall the Nobel Prize of Maria Ressa” was no longer available as of sometime yesterday. All the evidence left that it existed and did attract all those signatures is…
Poll after poll over the last several years consistently showed former Senator Bongbong Marcos at the top of the popularity game — convincingly topping Robredo who supposedly beat him to the vice presidency in the 2016 elections. The most recent one, the Publicus Asia Pahayag Q3 report is particularly significant because it is the first…
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It has everything to do with President Rodrigo Duterte and it is an election year. Why would the Senate stoop so low as to bestow a medal of excellence on Maria Ressa when her work as a journalist is hardly excellent? Her English proficiency is because she’s an American citizen who attended Princeton. But other…
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Mass media was existent even before the rise of President Rodrigo Duterte. But the clowns in public office were the offshoots of the dumbing down of the Filipino by ABS-CBN and the change in demographics brought about by uncontrolled population growth. Professor Randy David in his Inquirer piece “Politics in the age of mass media”…
A writer’s problem is to find a topic and effectively convey the message he wants to impart to his audience. Substance comes first then style. The subtlety or the loudness of the prose, depends on the subject in relation to the audience. It is for this reason that it is hard for any writer to…
National artist for literature F. Sionil Jose has been copping a lot of flak for his audacity in stating that Maria Ressa does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. He has been maligned by prominent personalities and “thought leaders” of the Opposition. Some of them actually have questionable provenances with regard to their prominence. These…