Tag: journalism

What does Maria Ressa’s participation in New York City’s #NYE2018 festivities mean?

January 2, 2019 benign0 12 Comments

Nothing, really. But according to the Girls’ Club that is today’s mainstream Big Corporate News Media, Ressa is “a journalist in the Philippines whose news site, Rappler, has been threatened by the country’s authoritarian president, Rodrigo Duterte”. And so, on that dubious “achievement” reported by no less than chi chi New York Times, she gets…

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Would you buy Rappler’s “exclusive content” for P3500 a year?

December 27, 2018December 29, 2018 benign0 14 Comments

In its most recent project, “social news” site Rappler is promoting a new members-only service its audience could opt into for 3,500 pesos a year. The new service, Rappler PLUS, offers members access to… …exclusive content that gives deeper perspective on a wide range of topics, as well as opportunities for collaboration with other members…

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Detoxing from Big Corporate Social Media and a return to REAL “social networking”

December 21, 2018 benign0 3 Comments

As many of our closest followers know by now, we had recently launched GRPsupport.com (currently in BETA). It’s the equivalent of a home-cooked social networking meal with all-natural ingredients sourced from the Net’s most trusted organic digital farms and none of the artificial toxicity of the mass-produced “services” on offer in Big Corporate Social Media…

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Is there REALLY a “War on Truth” as @TIME Magazine asserts?

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 benign0 68 Comments

According to TIME Magazine, the world is in the midst of an information holocaust — a “war on truth” in what had become parlance in an industry being torn apart by a crisis of relevance. If there is any war being waged it is all in the heads of the captains of these sinking boats….

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Media industry congratulating itself as @TIME “persons of the year” choices prove

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 benign0 23 Comments

And traditional media leaders wonder why their industry is in decline. Part of the writing is on the wall seeing how former iconic giants like TIME Magazine are going all out congratulating their own. One of the phoney heroes this beleaguered industry is propping up is embattled Rappler CEO Maria Ressa who is included as…

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So Now A Christmas Song Is Really Talking About Date Rape

December 6, 2018December 6, 2018 Gogs 10 Comments

I am finding the nearest nuclear bunker. Locally we are witnessing the simultaneous crucifixion of Maria Ressa , journalism, good manners, good looks and civilization. Abroad the #metoo movement has worked its way into banning staple holiday songs. Over the next few paragraphs I will make a case about censorship and assignment of meaning but…

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Rappler CEO Maria Ressa blocks people on Twitter because she cannot HANDLE dissent!

December 5, 2018December 5, 2018 benign0 17 Comments

After calling Get Real Post writer @Ilda_talk a “minor minor blogger” and copping a bit of flak out of that major major lapse in judgement, the CEO of Rappler Maria Ressa has decided that she’s had enough of the healthy dose of dissent she’s been attracting. This is coming from a person who fancies herself…

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Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is ALONE in her paranoid fear that “press freedom” is “under threat”

December 3, 2018 benign0 16 Comments

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is in bad need of a healthy dose of humility. Of late, she’s been busy screeching about an imagined “attack on press freedom” supposedly being perpetrated by the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. This is, interestingly enough, after she was slapped with charges of tax evasion by the Department of…

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