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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

Would you buy Rappler’s “exclusive content” for P3500 a year?

December 27, 2018December 29, 2018 benign0 14 Comments

In its most recent project, “social news” site Rappler is promoting a new members-only service its audience could opt into for 3,500 pesos a year. The new service, Rappler PLUS, offers members access to… …exclusive content that gives deeper perspective on a wide range of topics, as well as opportunities for collaboration with other members…

Media

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa blocks people on Twitter because she cannot HANDLE dissent!

December 5, 2018December 5, 2018 benign0 17 Comments

After calling Get Real Post writer @Ilda_talk a “minor minor blogger” and copping a bit of flak out of that major major lapse in judgement, the CEO of Rappler Maria Ressa has decided that she’s had enough of the healthy dose of dissent she’s been attracting. This is coming from a person who fancies herself…

Media

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is ALONE in her paranoid fear that “press freedom” is “under threat”

December 3, 2018 benign0 16 Comments

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is in bad need of a healthy dose of humility. Of late, she’s been busy screeching about an imagined “attack on press freedom” supposedly being perpetrated by the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. This is, interestingly enough, after she was slapped with charges of tax evasion by the Department of…

Media

Rappler and its CEO Maria Ressa have become focused on “activism” rather than on REAL journalism

December 3, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

Both mainstream media and personalities associated with the increasingly desperate “voice” of the mainstream continue to screech about “fake news” and their imagined “assault on press freedom”. These two things are nebulous notions at best as “fake news” had become a mere catch-all used to describe anything someone finds personally disagreeable and “press freedom” is…

Crime, Media

Maria Ressa plays the “Assault on Press Freedom” card again

December 3, 2018December 3, 2018 benign0 6 Comments

With the impending arrest of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, the usual clique “social justice warriors” (SJWs) are up in arms. But the Philippine government’s stand on the matter remains consistent. A statement released by the Department of Justice reads… Assistant State Prosecutor Zenamar Machacon-Caparros upheld the complaint filed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)…

Crime, Media