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A @nytimes “report” on the ABS-CBN shutdown written by Jason Gutierrez is full of LIES

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A @nytimes “report” on the ABS-CBN shutdown written by Jason Gutierrez is full of LIES

Somebody needs to “fact check” the report published by the New York Times claiming that “Duterte’s Shutdown of TV Network Leaves Void Amid Coronavirus Crisis”. Its author, Jason Gutierrez, would like his readers to believe that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is behind the shutdown and that said “shutdown” aims to silence “dissent” and echoes the…

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The Philippine Opposition need to take time out to heal

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The Philippine Opposition need to take time out to heal

Loss sucks. Nobody likes to lose — not even those in the Opposition who have, over the last several years, lost a lot. Thing is, the way one behaves when in a situation that sucks is what defines one’s character. It is quite evident that the Opposition are not taking a rare opportunity to pause…

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What does Maria Ressa’s participation in New York City’s #NYE2018 festivities mean?

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What does Maria Ressa’s participation in New York City’s #NYE2018 festivities mean?

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…

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Article on self-important Rappler anti-fake-news “soldiers” published by @NYTimesWorld

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Article on self-important Rappler anti-fake-news “soldiers” published by @NYTimesWorld

You gotta hand it to the circlejerk relationship Rappler manages to cling on to with the New York Times. This recent article, Soldiers in Facebook’s War on Fake News Are Feeling Overrun makes like CEO Maria Ressa’s Rapplerettes are on a mission from God. The tone of the piece goes beyond drama into the realm…

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Jover Laurio and her former call centre employer may have violated Australian privacy laws

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Jover Laurio and her former call centre employer may have violated Australian privacy laws

According to the latest Western media feature, “popular” Filipino blogger Jover Laurio worked for an Australian call centre before her rise to “fame” as blogger and “thought leader” of the Philippine Opposition. This is particularly relevant to me as Laurio had some time ago used information she had somehow obtained about my private residence and…

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Rappler supporters use their foreign media allies to exploit Filipino colonial mentality

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Rappler supporters use their foreign media allies to exploit Filipino colonial mentality

As the outrage fad surrounding the shuttering of Rappler by the Philippines’ Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) rages on, we have so far observed a couple of things: (1) CEO Maria Ressa has been attempting to spin this as a “press freedom” issue to distract the public from her failures as CEO and (2) the…

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How @rapplerdotcom triggered the decline of journalism in the Philippines

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How @rapplerdotcom triggered the decline of journalism in the Philippines

It’s the buzz of the week. Manila Times columnist Rigoberto ‘Bobi’ Tiglao and Rappler are at war. It started with Tiglao’s eye-opening revelations on the sloppy — and borderline fraudulent — reporting by Rappler on the issue of the so-called “extrajudicial killings” (EJKs) supposedly running rampant in the Philippines. In How Rappler misled EU, Human…

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Philippines’ extrajudicial violence traces roots to Aquino admin according to The New York Times

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Philippines’ extrajudicial violence traces roots to Aquino admin according to The New York Times

A New York Times article has confirmed what some of us have been saying all along – that the root of the problem in the Philippines that the current government is facing today can be traced to former President Benigno Simeon Aquino. It is funny though how it had to take foreigners to validate what…

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