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About 25 years ago , The Ring was doing well in the American box office. The Ring was originally a Japanese movie (1998) that did so well on its own Hollywood made their own version just like what they did with movies like Scent of a Woman and True Lies . The source material was…
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Mass media was existent even before the rise of President Rodrigo Duterte. But the clowns in public office were the offshoots of the dumbing down of the Filipino by ABS-CBN and the change in demographics brought about by uncontrolled population growth. Professor Randy David in his Inquirer piece “Politics in the age of mass media”…
” Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 22:13 What is ironic about that Bible quote in the context of May 2019 is that if the Liberal Party heeded the advice of the first part of the…
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Consider the vastness of the money-making machine that the Philippine Roman Catholic Church is. None of its activities including those that are financially profitable are currently taxed by the Philippine government. Catholic education alone, for example, is an expensive premium service that even the wealthiest of Filipinos clamber over one another to partake of. Yet…
An interesting read I recently got was Media and Culture: Global Homogeneity and Local Identity by Rachel E. Khan. It has a chapter called Citizen Journalism and the Fall of Mass Media Hegemony, and it talks of how the Internet and other mass communication means allowed people to create their own posts, announcements and punditry…
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So Philippine politics has become more like a teleserye nowadays. The men of the hour are presidential candidates Rodrigo Duterte and Mar Roxas. The earlier is emerging as the top contender for the throne while the latter is struggling to rise from the bottom of the polls. Nonetheless each one has threatened to slap the…
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After noticing that a lot of readers seem to have appreciated my first article about what else they can watch asides from the mind-destroying shows that seem to infest our airwaves, I decided that I can perhaps provide additional reviews and recommendations on some other noteworthy programs and films. Let’s get this straight, I believe that…
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Like her or hate her, Kris Aquino is not going to go away and fade into oblivion anytime soon. Especially not after she was recognized for her talk show Kris TV at the USTv Students’ Choice Awards early this month. That award which she won had got her declaring that she’s happy to still be…
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