Tag: maria ressa

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…

Media, Politics

Maria Ressa does not deserve the Philippine Senate “Medal of Excellence”

October 22, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 14 Comments

It has everything to do with President Rodrigo Duterte and it is an election year. Why would the Senate stoop so low as to bestow a medal of excellence on Maria Ressa when her work as a journalist is hardly excellent? Her English proficiency is because she’s an American citizen who attended Princeton. But other…

Media

Robredo enjoys I-Told-You-So moment as Bongbong Marcos notches a SOLID 49.3 percent preference rating in latest poll!

October 22, 2021November 4, 2021 benign0 4 Comments

The latest Publicus Asia survey report Pahayag Q3 2021 is out and the results are sure to make the Opposition cry a river. Cutting to the presidential race, former Senator Bongbong Marcos tops the preference numbers at 49.3 percent with “vice president” Leni Robredo a far far second at 21.3 percent overall. Consistent with this,…

Politics

John Nery defends his new boss Maria Ressa against national artist F Sionil Jose’s opinion about her Nobel “Peace Prize”

October 13, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 5 Comments

A writer’s problem is to find a topic and effectively convey the message he wants to impart to his audience. Substance comes first then style. The subtlety or the loudness of the prose, depends on the subject in relation to the audience. It is for this reason that it is hard for any writer to…

Media

History repeats itself: how Maria Ressa, like Aguinaldo, Paterno and Buencamino, sold Filipinos out to FOREIGN colonial powers

October 11, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 20 Comments

National artist for literature F. Sionil Jose has been copping a lot of flak for his audacity in stating that Maria Ressa does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. He has been maligned by prominent personalities and “thought leaders” of the Opposition. Some of them actually have questionable provenances with regard to their prominence. These…

History, Media

Maria Ressa’s Nobel “Peace Prize” award part of a desperate Opposition strategy to INCITE social unrest as 2022 elections approach

October 11, 2021April 21, 2022 Ramon Ortoll 11 Comments

Opposition “thought leaders” keep echoing recently-crowned Nobel “Peace Prize” laureate Maria Ressa’s dubious assertion that there is a “war on truth” perpetrated by the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. One such parrot is PhilSTAR lifestyle columnist Joel Pablo Salud who, in a Facebook post, wrote about, you guessed it, “ongoing repression of press freedom…

Politics

While Leni Robredo’s pink colours and Maria Ressa’s “Peace Prize” flood socmed timelines, those who beg to differ keep silent – for now

October 11, 2021October 12, 2021 benign0 6 Comments

The lesson “political analysts” and “strategists” seem to have not learnt yet about social media is that it feeds one’s confirmation biases — basically shows you what you want to see. This is specially true of those who block, unfollow, or “unfriend” people in their social networks who express political views different to theirs. As…

Media, Society

Maria Ressa won her Nobel Peace Prize by being DISHONEST

October 11, 2021 Ilda 14 Comments

The news that Maria Ressa, CEO of Philippine online “news” site Rappler, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee has been met with more disgust than kudos by Filipinos. Those who were disgusted could not fathom how someone who has been spreading fake news and is a convicted felon could…

Crime, Media