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It’s a wonder Rappler remains online underneath the crushing weight of a growing pile of legal troubles. The most recent charge of securities fraud this week has resulted in an arrest warrant not just on CEO Maria Ressa but also several editors and board members. The Straits Times reports… They were also charged with securities…
If we take the time to sift through what some personalities in the “journalism” and corporate “news” media communities have been screeching about, it would seem that Facebook is increasingly regarded as the source of all forms of misinformation nowadays. Indeed, in the Philippine setting, nowhere is this idea more aggressively promoted than in the…
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Like most activist concepts that had began their lives as noble pursuits, the notion of “media freedom” had been perverted beyond all recognition by the Philippines’ snowflake activists. Worse, in the hands of downright dishonest and political agenda-laden “thought leaders” of the Philippine Opposition, the concept has since suffered a death spiral in relevance. For…
Read More “Rappler and Opposition “bloggers” lead the way in MISINFORMING the Filipino people!” »
“Fake news” is nothing new. Attempts to mislead people on a large scale have been around as long as human civilisation itself. A branch of this axis of disinformation — advertising — has become a legitimate billion dollar industry. Indeed, smoking, for example, was made cool on the back of this industry for decades before…
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Considering that Jover Laurio, venerable blogger of Opposition website Pinoy Ako Blog, was crowned Filipino “Person of the Year” by the Philippines’ biggest broadsheet in 2017, her wedding Saturday enjoyed a virtual news blackout. Consider too that her guest list and, most notable of all, her list of sponsors is a who’s-who of Crazy Rich…
Read More “Jover Laurio’s wedding is the world’s LEAST-REPORTED Wedding of the Year” »
We are definitely overdue for a “Next Big Thing” innovation explosion of the sort that happened in the mid-2000s. Back then, social media came out of nowhere to seize the Net, Steve Jobs’s iPod and iPhone pulled the rug from under entire industries, and, over the course of all that, mainstream mass media (and, specially,…
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Like it or not, Kris Aquino is the face — and voice — of the Philippines’ Liberal Party which is widely-regarded as the “leader” of the broader Opposition to the popular government of incumbent Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. More importantly, and, like it or not as well, the Philippines is a democracy; which means what…
The smoke is only now clearing following damning revelations that premiere major blogger of the Opposition — Jover Laurio of Pinoy Ako Blog — has been receiving funds from no less than the Queen of All Philippine Media, Kris Aquino to “boost” her blog posts on Facebook. As this smoke clears, what emerges are the…