Tag: journalism

Bongbong Marcos need not attend any debates either

January 24, 2022 benign0 17 Comments

Imagine a public debate among presidential candidates that does not include administration presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos. That debate will essentially be between a bunch of vacuous politicians — Leni Roredo, Manny Pacquiao, and Isko Moreno. The only other presidential candidate is Ping Lacson who would stand out as the most intelligent, most articulate, and most…

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Jessica Soho’s interview of Opposition presidential candidates unlikely to change the course of the elections

January 23, 2022 benign0 12 Comments

Who is Jessica Soho anyway? Yellowtards say she is a “multi-awarded” television “journalist”. But then so is Rappler CEO Maria Ressa. Indeed, the latter sports no less than the Nobel “Peace Prize” for being God’s Gift to World “Journalism” last year. That just about trumps anything Soho’s got. And yet, Ressa herself for all the…

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Bongbong Marcos’s snub of Jessica Soho scores him a huge PR win and sends ABS-CBN laughing all the way to the bank

January 22, 2022 benign0 50 Comments

I didn’t watch the Jessica Soho interviews with the “major” Opposition presidential candidates? Why should I? The show is essentially a talk fest with a bunch of losers competing for second place. By declining the invite, Bongbong Marcos actually made a louder more resonant statement than all of his rivals combined. More importantly, Marcos’s snub…

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Leni Robredo digs her own political grave every time she opens her mouth

January 8, 2022January 8, 2022 Ilda 11 Comments

Why is the Philippine media so obsessed with current Vice President Leonor “Leni” Robredo? No other Vice President in the history of the Philippines attracted as much press coverage as she has over her term. She gets even more airtime than President Rodrigo Duterte does, which is ridiculous. Every Vice President ever voted into office…

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Why Maria Ressa when there are thousands of REAL FILIPINO journalists who practice their craft HONESTLY?

December 13, 2021December 14, 2021 benign0 34 Comments

Think about this for a moment. There are hundreds of thousands of brilliant Filipino journalists many of whom go about their craft quietly and leave it up to their work to speak on their behalf. And then there is Maria Ressa. Maria Ressa gets to fly off to Oslo to receive her “peace prize”, hobnob…

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Maria Ressa apologists dismiss online “trolling” of her Nobel “Peace Prize” acceptance speech as “fake”

December 12, 2021 benign0 4 Comments

Opposition “thought leaders” like communist “journalist” Inday Espina Varona take a typical position on the Filipino public’s response to Rappler CEO Maria Ressa’s junket to Oslo, Norway to receive her Nobel “Peace Prize”. It seems that comments flooding social media accounts and posts associated with Ressa’s award expressing disagreement with the occasion had been significant…

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Nobel laureate Maria Ressa permitted flight to the US: proof that the Philippines is not a “war zone” that is ruled by a “tyrant”

November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 benign0 5 Comments

Maria Ressa is in the news again or, rather, her “social news network” Rappler of which she is CEO made her the news again. This time, the “news” is that she has been granted permission by the Philippines’ Court of Appeals (CA) to travel to the United States to “deliver a series of lectures at…

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Bongbong Marcos is likely to win in 2022. Will the US intervene to prevent that?

October 24, 2021 benign0 31 Comments

Poll after poll over the last several years consistently showed former Senator Bongbong Marcos at the top of the popularity game — convincingly topping Robredo who supposedly beat him to the vice presidency in the 2016 elections. The most recent one, the Publicus Asia Pahayag Q3 report is particularly significant because it is the first…

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