Tag: abs-cbn

ABS-CBN is the biggest TROLL FARM of them all: no place for it in Philippine democracy

July 11, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 4 Comments

In the dumbing down of the Filipino people. That is what ABS-CBN has been doing since its revival in 1986. No less than the national artist for literature, F. Sionil Jose, has written about the subject several times. It has also been described as the largest political party in the country for its ability to…

Media

With exactly 12 months to go before the 2022 Philippine Election, the Opposition is in disarray

May 10, 2021May 10, 2021 benign0 2 Comments

Today’s Working Day One of the 12-month homestretch to the 2022 national elections. As much as the COVID-19 pandemic rages, the Philippine Opposition sputters. They still lack a vision to pitch the Filipino voter and a credible leader to deliver that pitch. Much of the previous year was invested by the Opposition propping up presumptive…

Media, Politics

Turning Ana Patricia Non into a celebrity is not going to end well…

April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 benign0 6 Comments

It’s official. Ana Patricia Non, founder of the Maginhawa Street Community Pantry is now a celebrity. She’s become the postergirl of the latest charity industry that is this week’s buzz on the social media spaces populated by the Philippines’ politically-passionate. Initially, “progressive groups” — the Yellowtards (the bloc of partisans loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco clan)…

Glitz and Glamour, Politics

Go woke, go broke: ABS-CBN succumbs to cancel culture – breaks ties with CNTV

April 16, 2021April 17, 2021 benign0 5 Comments

Amid “heavy” social media “backlash” mostly from Yellowtards (the bloc within the Philippine Opposition rabidly loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco clan), top Philippine media network ABS-CBN has reportedly “ended its partnership with Chinatown News TV (CNTV) and will no longer air the Mandarin-language newscast.” As expected, Yellowtard Netizens and “thought leaders” are now busy patting themselves…

Business, Media, Money Talks

Racist Yellowtards flipping over Mandarin-language Chinese News TV (CNTV) airing on ABS-CBN

April 15, 2021 benign0 2 Comments

Today’s Yellowtard outrage fad surrounds an agreement between the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) and the firm Horizon of the Sun Communications, Incorporated which produces the iconic lifestyle show Chinatown TV to broadcast Chinese News TV (CNTV). CNTV has been airing nightly with news content delivered in Mandarin since 2017 and its audience traditionally consists of…

Media, Society

Only stupid people watch Pinoy Big Brother

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 benign0 5 Comments

It’s curious how, on one hand, the wokedom of ABS-CBN supporters and fandoms get all their panties twisted over toxicity and “gaslighting” and, on another, are all agush over the artificial goings-on in a reality TV show like Pinoy Big Brother. PBB is cheap entertainment. It suckers young people who are starved for attention into…

Glitz and Glamour, Media

Use of face shields in the Philippines is an OA overreaction

December 19, 2020 benign0 4 Comments

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that the excessive use and prescription of face shields in the Philippines is just another one of those shrill overreactions propagated on the back of the speculation coming from the lockdown-idled minds of millennial “influencers”? COVID-19 is unprecedented in its place in human history as a…

Media, Society

Opposition disappointed as #RollyPH (Typhoon Goni) leaves the Philippines relatively unscathed

November 1, 2020 benign0 1 Comment

Once again the Philippine Opposition’s prayers were left unanswered as Typhoon Goni (codenamed “Rolly” in the Philippines) passes relatively harmlessly. Like most typhoons plowing through the Philippines, Rolly left a trail of destruction of the sort regarded as normal by most Filipinos. But it was nothing like the catastrophe Opposition partisans were hoping for, and…

Environment, Politics