We beg to differ.
So, yesterday and the day before that, my young friends on Facebook were all agog over Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson’s supposedly explosive revelation on House Representatives from Pampanga and Camarines Sur carving out a P2 billion or P3 billion chunk of the 2019 national budget as their “pork barrel fund”. Lacson announced his oncoming expose…
You gotta pity the University of the Philippines’ men’s basketball team that went up against the Ateneo de Manila in this year’s UAAP championship match. They may have been under pressure to win the game to fulfil the dream of the Yellowtard-led Philippine Opposition to “oust the dictator”. The “dictator” in this political fantasy is,…
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I am finding the nearest nuclear bunker. Locally we are witnessing the simultaneous crucifixion of Maria Ressa , journalism, good manners, good looks and civilization. Abroad the #metoo movement has worked its way into banning staple holiday songs. Over the next few paragraphs I will make a case about censorship and assignment of meaning but…
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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…
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For those of you who have never been there, Seattle is a beautiful American city. Sorry, I forgot to add, it is a beautiful wet American city. It is located in the region of the continent where it does rain a lot. Which may not sound so great on its own but add in that…
It’s not a question of ability. The Philippines produces a staggering figure in terms of brain power for engineering, science, IT, and mathematics. It’s really a question of why: why aren’t Filipinos building their own rockets? Well the simple answer is also the lazy rhetorical one: “Why make when you can buy?” And there again…
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…
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…