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What next for the Philippines’ DISCREDITED mainstream corporate news media?

May 24, 2022 benign0 117 Comments

The Philippines’ mainstream news media is in a death spiral. Many of the country’s top media outfits led by ABS-CBN, Rappler, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and even relatively professional CNN Philippines went for broke in this year’s elections. They bet their entire reputations on the campaign of now-failed Yellowtard presidential candidate Leni Robredo. They tossed…

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If Professor Clarita Carlos is a “pet analyst”, then JC Punongbayan is a quack “economist”

May 22, 2022 benign0 125 Comments

Rappler kiddie “reporter” Lian Buan should be careful what she calls esteemed University of the Philippines Professor Clarita Carlos. A “report” she authored published on the disgraced “social news network” was headlined “UP political science department distances from Marcos pet analyst” effectively denigrating the qualifications of this veteran academic with no apparent bases. Buan uncritically…

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Character-based politics and why it should stop

May 19, 2022 The Unpopular Opinion 72 Comments

The Philippines concluded its recently held general elections, where we witnessed the beginning of a new chapter in Philippine history. The Marcos-Duterte tandem, together with a number of their publicly endorsed senatorial candidates, are expected to serve their national positions this coming June. The Marcos-Duterte ticket won by a landslide, garnering around 60% of the…

Charter Change, Development, History, Politics

What to do now with all those People Power memorial relics and other Yellowtard statues and monuments

May 18, 2022May 18, 2022 benign0 109 Comments

What does one do with all those statues of Ninoy Aquino and Cory Aquino littering the Philippines? What is the plan for all these buildings and spaces appropriated to the commemoration of Yellowtard “heroes” and their “glorious” stories? These are now all but quaint legacies of an era that ended this year — one that…

Culture, Politics, Society

Modern Culture vs. Traditional culture: Why I choose the former

May 18, 2022May 19, 2022 ChinoF 16 Comments

In a previous article, I mentioned a 1990s or early 2000s cable TV advertisement which showed people of different cultures later morphing into people in black modern suits. The narrator was saying that diversity and culture are in danger because of modernization by globalization. I’m still looking for this ad, but I also still disagree…

Culture, Economy

Nobody likes being associated with losers

May 14, 2022May 30, 2022 benign0 53 Comments

Sure, losing presidential candidate Leni Robredo, we are told, will be turning her “KakamPink” flock into a “movement” of some sort. Not surprising that she’d take this position of defiance despite the landslide victory of her rival administration candidate Bongbong Marcos. Robredo is, after all, surrounded by idiots. Indeed, many political analysts doing a post…

Politics

Yellowtards refuse to recognise Bongbong Marcos as their president

May 11, 2022May 11, 2022 benign0 119 Comments

It is ironic that the Yellowtards who fancy themselves as champions of democracy in the Philippines are now in the midst of a monumental temper tantrum over the landslide victory in these elections of administration candidates Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte. Based on partial results of the unofficial tally reported across media outlets, Marcos and…

Politics

Tie a Yellow Ribbon on the Ball and Chain in the Old Oak Tree

May 10, 2022 Moduli 2 Comments

I’m comin’ home, I’ve done my time Now I’ve got to know what is and isn’t mine…” The people has spoken and punctuated it with rage that drove the final nails to the coffin of the Yellowtards’ political dreams. A seething anger to be exact. It has been the goal of the Yellows-turned-Pink for six…

Culture, History, Politics