Tag: social media

PNoy reportedly laughing at jokes amidst the tragedy unfolding in CDO and Iligan

December 19, 2011November 1, 2022 Ilda 126 Comments

Social networking sites keep undoing the impeccable image President Noynoy Aquino (PNoy) is trying to project. Gone are the days when Malacañang Palace officials can keep their shenanigans hush-hush while regular folks battle for survival outside in the real world. Facebook and Twitter are social networking sites that act as double edge swords for high…

Civics, Environment, Government, Media

Valerie Concepcion allegedly wows PNoy as Sendong strikes Mindanao

December 19, 2011November 1, 2022 benign0 101 Comments

The last thing a nation needs in time of extreme crisis is more political intrigue. It seems however, that the administration of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III simply attracts that scourge of useless chatter and even fans its flames. The other night as, reportedly, “the nation mourns”, Noynoy was apparently busy “laughing at [the] jokes”…

Culture, Development, Environment, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Society

Punditry stalwart Manuel L Quezon III now back online! @mlq3

December 14, 2011 benign0 38 Comments

They said a short time ago that the “gloves are now off” in the epic battle between the three “co-equal” branches of the Philippine government. Not quite. Seems like the gloves are coming off only now seeing that MalacaÃ±ang have started to dispatch their elite troops into the PR jungle, and this is my nod…

Government, Media, Tech Talk

Crowdsourcing is a double-edged sword

December 13, 2011 benign0 8 Comments

It is a massive case of groupthink — when entire governments and even societies delegate en masse their thinking faculties for the sake of unanimity. According to a Scientific American feature, “[s]cholars have ascribed bad decision making to groupthink, for example, in U.S. policy during the Vietnam War.” Indeed, groupthink seems to be behind some…

Society, Tech Talk

The only sensible Filipino take on the International Day to End Impunity

November 23, 2011November 23, 2016 benign0 25 Comments

So today is supposed to be some kind of “International Day to End Impunity”. I hear some folks are making the little factoid that this “event” coincides with the Maguindanao Massacre (no, that is not the title of a 1980’s Filipino movie) something to add credence to the Filipino’s place of honour in commemorating such…

Crime, Media, Society

Why Baron Buchokoy represents every media exec’s worst nightmare AND sweetest dreams

November 9, 2011 benign0 19 Comments

The last several days saw a frenzy of commentary and speculation around the video Aquino-Cojuangcos: Facts They Donâ€™t Want You To Know (which we shall refer to as just Facts when citing it henceforth) where some revealing and unflattering information about the feudal clans of the Aquinos and Cojuangcos currently ruling the Philippines in tandem…

Media, Technology

The degeneration of Internet activism in the Philippines under the Aquino government

November 8, 2011 benign0 23 Comments

It’s time we recall with some bemusement the words of “columnist” Jose Ma. Montelibano in a 28th October 2011 article on the Inquirer.net… That is why Noynoy Aquino is now president. What he is simply by character, a son of two heroes who were not stained by corruption or swallowed by power, and himself eager…

Government, Politics, Tech Talk