We beg to differ.
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…
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…
Read More “Go woke, go broke: ABS-CBN succumbs to cancel culture – breaks ties with CNTV” »
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…
Carlo Katigbak had one job as chief executive of embattled media conglomerate ABS-CBN. He was paid the big bucks not only to secure the investment of the company’s shareholders but to ensure an acceptable return on their investment is squeezed out of the enterprise every year. But under Katigbak’s watch, ABS-CBN share prices had gone…
Read More “Carlo Katigbak should resign as President and CEO of ABS-CBN” »
The shutdown of media giant ABS-CBN should not have come as a surprise but, to many of the broadcast network’s employees and supporters, it was shocking and outrageous. They are acting like they didn’t know the network’s franchise to broadcast using public radio frequency was about to expire. Even the company’s executives themselves seemed baffled…
Filipinos should get a grip. It is actually possible to live without ABS-CBN. It’s been proven. Many chi chi Ateneans and other private school kids who form part of ABS-CBN executive management very likely lead entire lives not watching a single one of the “entertainment” products their own company subjects Filipinos to. Indeed, an interesting…
Read More “Life goes on and GETS BETTER without #ABSCBN news and entertainment” »
Pressure is mounting on Senator Grace Poe to hold herself accountable for misappropriating public resources down a Senate “inquiry” into the ABS-CBN franchise renewal “issue”. The “inquiry” which Poe claimed was “in aid of legislation” has done nothing beyond giving ABS-CBN a platform for emotional blackmail. Poe is hard-pressed to report to the Filipino public…
Read More “Senator Grace Poe should RESIGN following the ABS-CBN conflict-of-interest fiasco!” »