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What next for the Philippines’ DISCREDITED mainstream corporate news media?

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What next for the Philippines’ DISCREDITED mainstream corporate news media?

The Philippines’ mainstream news media is in a death spiral. Many of the country’s top media outfits led by ABS-CBN, Rappler, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and even relatively professional CNN Philippines went for broke in this year’s elections. They bet their entire reputations on the campaign of now-failed Yellowtard presidential candidate Leni Robredo. They tossed…

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Mainstream “journalists” like Joel Pablo Salud fear “trolls” because they fear the growing IRRELEVANCE of their profession

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Mainstream “journalists” like Joel Pablo Salud fear “trolls” because they fear the growing IRRELEVANCE of their profession

Spied this puff piece by Joel Pablo Salud published on a certain LiCAS News Philippines. In this article pompously-titled “My State of the Nation Address”, Salud shrieks about how “the bloodstained curtains slowly begin to close on the current regime” and, as such, that he be “allowed” the words he would go on to write….

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Cory Aquino and the dumbing down of Philippine Media the root cause of decline in quality of Filipino legislators

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Cory Aquino and the dumbing down of Philippine Media the root cause of decline in quality of Filipino legislators

Harry Roque’s law partner Joel Ruiz Butuyan complains about the quality of Senators but doesn’t put the finer on who should be blamed. Butuyan writes in his Inquirer column “Comparing past and present senators” today of “the faces of senators of the past renowned for their brilliance, juxtaposed with pictures of senators of the present…

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History, Media, Politics

On Continuous Publication, Updating Articles and SEO

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On Continuous Publication, Updating Articles and SEO

In February 2019, the Philippines’ National Bureau of Investigation arrested the CEO of Rappler, Maria Ressa, over a cyber-libel case filed against her by businessman Wilfredo Keng. Ressa’s camp argued that the case is was invalid due to the fact that the alleged article that caused the suit was published months before RA 10175 Anti-Cybercrime…

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Crime, Media, Tech Talk

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

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

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…

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

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

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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Overuse has made the term “fake news” meaningless

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Overuse has made the term “fake news” meaningless

“Fake news” this and “fake news” that. But does anyone really know what “fake news” is? The fact is, “fake news” has become a term that is bandied around the most by wannabe “activists” who couldn’t be bothered to define terms clearly first before building entire “advocacies” around these. The Collins dictionary defines “fake news”…

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@Facebook’s troubles started when it implemented its newsfeed algorithm to decide what we “wanted”

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@Facebook’s troubles started when it implemented its newsfeed algorithm to decide what we “wanted”

Following the screeching fits of people like Rappler CEO Maria Ressa who put the blame on the so-called modern-day “scourge” of “fake news” squarely on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has struck back. Zuck has reportedly axed news media’s access to our prized Facebook newsfeeds and pulled the revenue rug from under the feet of news media…

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