Tag: al jazeera

Islamic TERRORIST group the Moro Islamic Liberation Front supports Leni Robredo

April 23, 2022 benign0 54 Comments

A disturbing image was tweeted by Al Jazeera correspondent Jameela Alindogan today showing what appears to be a heavily-armed fighter of the Islamic terrorist group the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) posing next to a campaign poster of Opposition Yellowtard candidate and “vice president” Leni Robredo. It would indeed be interesting to understand what exactly…

Crime

Yellowtard economic “experts” @JCPunongbayan, Ateneo alumna @znsuzara, and SHARON CUNETA comment on recent Ph economy data!

August 12, 2021August 12, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

“Economic experts” sprouted overnight after the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released its economic data the other day. The PSA numbers showed that the Philippines moved out of recession territory with GDP growth turning positive for the first time since its tumultuous plunge last year on the back of the first lockdown which effectively shutdown the…

Economy, Media, Money Talks

“I was just reporting. That’s my job”: @AlJazeera hack Barnaby Lo defends sloppy report on Ph gov’t COVID-19 response

August 8, 2021 benign0 3 Comments

The dismal state of “journalism” in the Philippines is once again in the spotlight. On exhibit is a case of dishonest “reporting” delivered by Al Jazeera‘s Philippine correspondent Barnaby Lo. Lo, evidently unprepared for a live patch to an Al Jazeera anchor yesterday, stammered through his on-the-ground “report” from Manila and claimed that there was…

Media

Foreign media have become victims of Maria Ressa’s lies

February 16, 2019February 18, 2019 Ilda 42 Comments

Contrary to reports being disseminated by foreign media, the arrest of Philippine online news site Rappler’s Chief Executive Officer Maria Ressa has been welcomed by many people, not condemned. It seems a lot of Foreign media outlets are getting fed the wrong information about Ressa’s problems with the law. The Associated Press was even forced…

Crime, Media

Duterte leaves Al Jazeera reporters stumped by his elegantly simple answers

October 16, 2016 benign0 120 Comments

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte faced Al Jazeera‘s Jamela Alindogan and Wayne Hay in an interview conducted the 15th October 2016 in Malacanang palace. The first of two instalments of the video recording of the interview made available on YouTube is shown below. The key topics raised by Alindogan and Hay revolved mainly around two issues…

Crime, Government, Media

Al Jazeera video ‘Begging for Life’ features roundup of beggars during APEC Summit in Manila

February 2, 2016 benign0 7 Comments

Al Jazeera features in its ‘People and Power’ programme the video clip Begging for Life, a look into the lives of street children who make a living begging on the streets of Manila. The video is noteworthy because it captured eyewitness accounts of the roundup of street urchins conducted by the Philippine government in and…

Civics, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Is it illegal to exhibit Filipino maids in store display windows in Singapore malls?

June 30, 2014 benign0 25 Comments

By now, the now infamous report “Buy a discount maid at Singapore’s malls” featured by Al Jazeera last week has been shared and re-shared on social media as well as published and re-published by mainstream news organisations, further inflaming outrage among Filipinos whose egos have already taken severe beatings thanks to some media gaffes and…

Government, Lifestyle, Society

Will global ‘outrage’ over jailed Al Jazeera journalists turn into CONCRETE action?

June 24, 2014 benign0 7 Comments

Global outrage has erupted over the harsh prison sentences meted out to Al Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy, and Baher Mohamed last Monday. The three were successfully prosecuted in an Egyptian court for allegedly “undermining” Egypt’s “national security” supposedly by supplying false news and aiding terrorist movements deemed threats to the Egyptian government. Being…

Media, Politics, Religion, Society