Tag: journalism

The Philippine Government should shut down Facebook and make Maria Ressa happy

February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 benign0 15 Comments

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…

Media, Tech Talk

Rappler and Opposition “bloggers” lead the way in MISINFORMING the Filipino people!

February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 benign0 2 Comments

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…

Media, Politics, Society

Jover Laurio’s wedding is the world’s LEAST-REPORTED Wedding of the Year

January 21, 2019January 21, 2019 benign0 7 Comments

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…

Glitz and Glamour, Media

Democracy’s and its social media politics’ TEN YEAR Challenge

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 benign0 6 Comments

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,…

Media, Politics, Tech Talk

Meltdown of Brand Kris Aquino is dragging the Philippine Opposition to electoral oblivion!

January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 benign0 12 Comments

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…

Glitz and Glamour, Politics

Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party set to suffer major losses in the 2019 elections

January 10, 2019January 10, 2019 benign0 7 Comments

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…

Politics

It’s time REAL techos take back the discussion on social media influence!

January 3, 2019January 3, 2019 benign0 8 Comments

Social media “experts” like most Rappler “journalists” and “influencers” like Noemi Dado, a.k.a. @momblogger, don’t have tech backgrounds. Yet they contribute so much noise to discussions about subjects like these. When will people like, say, Manila Bulletin Tech Editor Art Samaniego really weigh in on the discussion more assertively? In a Recode interview, for example,…

Media, Society, Tech Talk