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How The Mainstream Philippine Media Is Killing Our Cultural Identity And Imagination

October 2, 2016 Grimwald 10 Comments

It’s that time of the year again and while a lot of us are busy with preparing for Christmas, I’m busying myself with creating Halloween stories to tell for those who may want to listen. As I’ve said many times before, my year simply doesn’t feel complete without a period of fearful stories and mysterious…

Culture, Media, Society

Alternative Media 17: The Witch (A Must-See Horror Flick For This Halloween)

October 1, 2016 Grimwald 1 Comment

Well ladies and gentlemen, it’s October and we are just days away from good ol’ Halloween. Truth be told, as a matter of my family’s tradition, I never go out of my way to prepare early for Christmas. I tend to think of each year as a cycle of sorts and my year simply doesn’t…

Culture, Film Review, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Religion

The kind of “sexy” that Jessy Mendiola sells

September 30, 2016October 1, 2016 FallenAngel 11 Comments

Running through the highlights for the month of September 2016 would seem incomplete without mentioning Jessy Mendiola’s being on the cover of FHM (For Him Magazine) Philippines. It also looks like she’ll be making the cover of Cosmpolitan PH for its October 2016 issue. My colleague Ilda wrote about Jessy last July, in the context…

Glitz and Glamour, Media

On the crybaby response of mainstream “journalists” to online trolls

September 30, 2016September 30, 2016 benign0 77 Comments

You’d think the way this cadre of “journalists” now “come together” to comfort one another “in a time of trolls” that trolling is such a new and unprecedented scourge in the business of online content production. “I still think that journalists who think themselves worth their profession should come together and look at this as…

Media, Politics

Only by crushing the Yellow disease will the Philippines’ deep wounds be healed

September 28, 2016 benign0 145 Comments

At no other time has the Philippines been as deeply-divided as it is today. A virtual civil war is being waged on the Net between the “Dutertards” and the “Yellowtards”. Because current President Rodrigo Duterte is from Mindanao — the first president from the Philippines’ deep south, no less — the battle lines between the…

Culture, Politics, Society

Aquino government’s failures made Philippine problems harder to fix

September 28, 2016September 28, 2016 Ilda 30 Comments

I was compelled to start blogging in 2009 about Philippine politics and culture after I read a report that former President Benigno Simeon Aquino III who was then still a Senator announced that he will be running for President in 2010. I found it extremely ridiculous that the reason why he decided to run was…

Crime, Politics, Society

CHR report that the Philippine Government’s “war on drugs targets the poor” is a lie

September 27, 2016 benign0 32 Comments

In a report submitted to the United Nations the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) reportedly asserts that the Philippine Government’s war on drugs targets the poor. Citing statements made by Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Ronald “Bato” M. dela Rosa during a Senate inquiry, the CHR also noted that more than a thousand deaths…

Crime, Media

Remembering Elias’s Legacy

September 26, 2016 Batangenyo 34 Comments

There’s one fact that we Filipinos cannot accept – we are being manufactured. We are being mass-produced by this elitist society and we are not aware of it. Why? Because we chose to ignore the rays of understanding that we could have if we took off the shadow of ignorance that conceals us from reality. Over…

Culture, Education, Government, Media, Politics, Society