Tag: cocoy dayao

Philippine mainstream media in all-out effort to bury #CocoyGate ‘fake news’ scandal!

October 2, 2017December 23, 2021 benign0 12 Comments

Back in October 2016, Rappler CEO Maria Ressa wrote about how an army of trolls have “weaponized the Internet” and that she is the protagonist in a “propaganda war” waged by an enemy that is “chipping away at facts, using half-truths that fabricate an alternative reality by merging the power of bots and fake accounts…

Media, Society

The CBCP became a source of ‘fake news’ when it published a list of ‘fake news’ sites

October 1, 2017October 1, 2017 benign0 17 Comments

This is in response to the list of “fake news” sites published by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) which included GetRealPhilippines.com. We did not respond to this initially because we thought it was too ridiculous to be taken seriously. The lack of a sound basis and coherent set of criteria applied to…

Media

Filipinos are squandering the biggest opportunity they’ve ever had to abolish Pork Barrel politics!

August 25, 2014 benign0 23 Comments

Perhaps it is time members of Congress get dragged into the streets and sat before a panel of the people they “represent” and explain why they are entitled to their pork. The “debate” around why or why they shouldn’t be entitled to a slush fund to dole out to their “constituents” has gotten crazy. Pork…

Crime, Government, Media, Politics, Society

EVERYONE is a suspect: Vast infrastructure of pork barrel thievery on the verge of being revealed!

September 2, 2013September 3, 2013 benign0 50 Comments

The Law is catching up with what may be hundreds of politicians who are likely to have made a killing skimming hefty “living allowances” off the ‘Priority Development Assistance Funds’ (more commonly known as the pork barrel). Senator Jinggoy Estrada, for one, issued what some call a preemptive palusot reportedly saying that he fears that…

Crime, Politics

Why Carlos Celdran should go to jail for his 2010 Damaso stunt

January 29, 2013August 18, 2022 benign0 209 Comments

First I presented the facts surrounding the Carlos Celdran ‘Damaso’ circus in my previous article. Evidently, facts alone don’t resonate loudly enough in Filipinos’ ears nor get processed effectively within their limited intellectual faculties. So I shall state my opinion about said facts a bit more explicitly here. Carlos Celdran is entitled to express an…

Crime, Culture, Religion