Tag: martin andanar

Any investigation on gov’t “troll farms” should also include an inquiry into the dishonest practice of “journalism” by mainstream media

September 27, 2021September 27, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

Joel Ruiz Butuyan in his Inquirer piece “The defeat of the trolls” writes of “strong suspicion that the current government employs so-called troll farms.” The ongoing Senate investigation has uncovered that the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) pays 1,479 “contract of service employees.” There’s a strong feeling that these are trolls hired by the government,…

Media, Politics

Manila Times columnist and DLSU professor Antonio Contreras’s intellectually-dishonest apology for being a former Duterte supporter

September 7, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

The Chief Political Analyst’s mea culpa is on exhibit on the Manila Times today in Antonio Contreras’s column “Painful cleansing of a political sin”. Contreras writes of the catharsis he experienced watching Mae Paner’s film Tao Po which dramatised the “plight” of the casualties of President Duterte’s “war on drugs”. The film “brutally engaged” him,…

Media, Politics, Society

What REALLY motivates Antonio Contreras whenever he defends Isko Moreno in his Manila Times column?

August 18, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

The Chief Political Analyst gets all worked up in his Manila Times piece today “Moreno’s past and Duterte’s present”. Antonio Contreras writes about how President Rodrigo Duterte “demeaned and diminished” Manila Mayor Isko Moreno by referring to his past as a sex movie starlet and his posing in provocative photos dressed only in his underwear….

Lifestyle, Politics

Quo Vadis Presidential Communications?

October 17, 2018December 13, 2024 P. Farol 6 Comments

It would seem that Malacanang’s communications would be in disarray following the resignation of Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque and the impending dissolution of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), which will be replaced by the soon to be revived Office of the Press Secretary. But it is not. Presidential Legal Counsel Sal Panelo has seamlessly…

Government

Andanar’s Attackers Are Clueless Dogs In The Manger

April 3, 2018 P. Farol 3 Comments

Just before the Holy Week holiday, Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar received a bit of flak for misprinted press IDs and a mislabeled transcription of a radio interview of Special Assistant to the President Bong Go. His attackers made it seem that the secretary’s duties revolved around proof reading and arranging media interviews INSTEAD of…

Government, Media

Senate inquiry on “fake news” turns into pointless finger-pointing exercise

January 30, 2018 Ilda 28 Comments

It’s not clear what Senator Grace Poe as the chairman for the Committee on Public Information and Mass Media wanted to achieve in conducting a hearing on fake news. The hearing did not have any clear objective. Poe just allowed the resource speakers to state their claim and then… nothing. She doesn’t even ask for…

Media

Duterte’s State of the Nation Address July 24, 2017 — what needs to be said

July 17, 2017 benign0 15 Comments

Duterte will be coming to the podium to address a joint session of Philippine Congress riding on the crest of high approval ratings after one year of service. As such, he possesses the immense political capital that is required to push through an agenda that, as has been evident, is unpopular not with the ordinary…

Government, Politics

Philippine society cannot change unless Filipinos change the way they think

June 6, 2017 benign0 8 Comments

Recent events have once again proven how important information is. Now an overused cliché, it is still worth reminding, in this age of the Internet and social media, how fast information can spread. While the human mind is wired to respond quickly to stories, it is not particularly well-equipped to evaluate data outside of an…

Culture, Development, Media, Politics