Tag: television

The demise of ABS-CBN will herald a mass media renaissance in the Philippines!

July 10, 2020 benign0 2 Comments

If the community of content producers, artists, and creative types would care to pause a bit and step out of the herd mentality that is the lunacy of their “solidarity” with embattled ABS-CBN, they will see the vast opportunities that await their craft with the demise of the Philippines’ biggest mass media empire. For so…

Culture, Media

#ABSCBN products are mental health HAZARDS designed to elicit Filipinos’ TINGALA Reflex

May 14, 2020 benign0 15 Comments

It took many years for Big Tobacco to be called out as an immoral industry — one that for years legally sold addictive poison to consumers who did not know better. In that context, perhaps this the time to really examine what media conglomerate ABS-CBN are really doing to Philippine society. ABS-CBN products are, at…

Culture, Media

#ABSCBN taught Filipinos all the WRONG values

May 9, 2020May 9, 2020 benign0 28 Comments

The way Opposition partisans, specially those among them loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) screech about the shutdown of ABS-CBN’s radio-based broadcasting operations, you’d think an institution essential to Filipino life had met its demise. Much of the brouhaha is centred around the testimonials of ABS-CBN talents themselves such as Pinoy Big…

Culture, Development

Life goes on and GETS BETTER without #ABSCBN news and entertainment

May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 benign0 43 Comments

Filipinos should get a grip. It is actually possible to live without ABS-CBN. It’s been proven. Many chi chi Ateneans and other private school kids who form part of ABS-CBN executive management very likely lead entire lives not watching a single one of the “entertainment” products their own company subjects Filipinos to. Indeed, an interesting…

Business, Media

Erik Matti whines about K-dramas instead of rallying the local industry to step up

April 17, 2020 rsurtida 17 Comments

Thanks to this pandemic, people have more time in their hands to binge-watch on Netflix and the like without guilt. After all, staying home is considered an act of valor these days, with the national government even threatening to do a Martial Law type of enforcement against people who err on quarantine protocols. So this…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour

Mass entertainment in the Philippines should be controlled to prevent further dumbing down of Filipinos

January 19, 2020 benign0 28 Comments

No Filipino will disagree that one of the biggest problems the Philippines faces is the quality of thinking of its populace. This is specially critical in a democratic society where popularity is power and specifically in the Philippines where leaders are elected by popular vote. What is interesting to note is that the institutions of…

Government, Media

Yellowtards exhibit crab mentality when they vilify Brillante Mendoza and his TV series “Amo”

April 9, 2018 benign0 5 Comments

The Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) have gone way beyond feeding Western media with slanderous and downright misleading information about the Philippines. The Yellowtards are now resorting to lobbying — even bullying — a media organisation into withdrawing content they summarily deem “undesirable” in this most recent instance of their…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media

Will a China-owned telco operating in the Philippines spy on Filipinos?

December 21, 2017December 21, 2017 benign0 19 Comments

For one thing, it is a bit presumptuous to think spying on the minutiae of day-to-day lives of ordinary Filipinos is an important enough main objective for a multi-million dollar investment in network infrastructure and telco service delivery capability. There really isn’t much to learn from data collected from Filipino Internet users beyond what Facebook…

Media, Society, Tech Talk