Tag: abs-cbn

Filipino movie and TV actors don’t know how to play rich people

April 30, 2023April 30, 2023 benign0 14 Comments

Many people have been wondering why Filipino films and television shows are such massive cringes. On the surface, the most obvious observation is that the emotional hooks used by the template plots of these products are overused and obsolete. Shouting matches, loud monologues, and slapstick chatter pepper stories about “love” between characters from opposite sides…

Business, Culture, Media

Why is Leni Robredo still in the news? Because the Philippine Opposition can’t attract REAL political talent.

March 30, 2023 benign0 No Comments

Opposition “thought leaders” decry what they perceive to be a continued haranguing of “former vice president” Leni Robredo. Robredo, we recall “led” the Philippine Opposition to a crushing defeat in the 2022 presidential elections — an election that the Opposition deemed too important to lose. In actual practice, they did not seem to have considered…

Media, Politics

Is there still hope of turning the Tagalog dialect into a modern intellectual medium of communication?

March 28, 2023 benign0 16 Comments

Back in the old days, televised news reporting used to be mostly done in English. The EDSA “revolution” changed all that. Practically overnight, Tagalog news shows such as pioneer shock “news” caster Noli de Castro’s TV Patrol turned what was once a public service into mass entertainment. Key to this was the pivoting of telejournalism…

Culture, Development, Education

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

Bongbong Marcos’s snub of Jessica Soho scores him a huge PR win and sends ABS-CBN laughing all the way to the bank

January 22, 2022 benign0 50 Comments

I didn’t watch the Jessica Soho interviews with the “major” Opposition presidential candidates? Why should I? The show is essentially a talk fest with a bunch of losers competing for second place. By declining the invite, Bongbong Marcos actually made a louder more resonant statement than all of his rivals combined. More importantly, Marcos’s snub…

Media, Politics

According to @ANCALERTS anchor Ian Esguerra, Karen Davila did a BAD job when she interviewed Leni Robredo

September 19, 2021September 20, 2021 benign0 No Comments

So butthurt are the Yellowtards over Toni Gonzaga’s Bongbong Marcos interview that they’d come up with the dumbest logic in their lame attempts to cancel her. Most recent is this ululation coming from ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) anchor Christian Esguerra. According to Esguerra a “bad” journalist is one who makes her interview subject “happy”. It…

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Congresswoman Claudine Bautista should SUE Enchong Dee and Inquirer “reporter” Dana Cruz for LIBEL

August 18, 2021August 18, 2021 benign0 2 Comments

Showbiz personality Enchong Dee issued an “apology” to Congresswoman Claudine Bautista on Twitter today for suggesting last weekend that a Michael Cinco gown she wore in her recent wedding was funded by money stolen from the organisation Drivers United for Mass Progress and Equal Rights party list (DUMPER) which she represents in the Philippines’ House…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media

ABS-CBN is not worth being made into an election issue because Filipinos couldn’t care less about it

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Talk about much entitlement! All these actions just for ABS-CBN to be granted a new franchise? It should be an election issue? Former Inquirer editor John Nery is surely earning his keep as a mouthpiece of the Lopezes. In his piece “ABS-CBN is a campaign issue”, Nery continues to harp about how the ABS-CBN’s franchise…

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