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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

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

Returning @SRsasot’s no-nonsense nod to GRP…

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 benign0 18 Comments

Esteemed political social media blogger Sass Rogando Sasot posted this much-appreciated hat-tip to GRP on Facebook. I may not always agree with GetRealPhilippines.COM. In fact, its founder benign0 and I even acerbically criticised each other’s views before. Yet despite his sarcasm and “pang-asar” tactics, benign0 never dehumanized me. Unlike Jover Laurio funded by Kris Aquino,…

Media, Society

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

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…

Media

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….

Media