Tag: uplb

Ill-mannered UPLB student cops online abuse from balasubas Durterte supporters!

March 15, 2016March 15, 2016 benign0 25 Comments

Again another outrage fad is erupting and this time it centres around a student of the University of the Philippines Los Banos campus (UPLB) confronting presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte with some pointed questions recently. The media drama which climaxed with a spate of online bullying this student copped from furious Duterte supporters and the spectacular…

Culture, Education, Media, Politics, Society, The South

Shouldn’t ABS-CBN apologize to Jejomar Binay as well?

September 20, 2015September 20, 2015 FallenAngel 28 Comments

Perhaps it’s too much to ask of ABS-CBN, though. Common sense should dictate that the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) student body was not the only aggrieved party. They weren’t the one who was “mistakenly” reported as being shouted at with trapo. Vice President Jejomar Binay, the one invited to the forum, was….

Culture, Media, Politics

ABS-CBN News cops the wrath of the University of the Philippines student body!

September 20, 2015September 20, 2015 benign0 8 Comments

The sloppy journalism of ABS-CBN News has finally caught up with it. In an “open letter”, the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) Student Council (SC) pointedly denounced the “unethical journalism” practiced by the Philippines’ largest for-profit media corporation… Last Tuesday, 15 September, the Vice President of the Philippines, Jejomar Binay, visited the University…

Civics, Media, Politics