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Why we don’t need to emphasize that it’s more fun in the Philippines

January 7, 2012January 7, 2012 Ilda 225 Comments

The newly unveiled tourism slogan â€œItâ€™s more fun in the Philippinesâ€ by the Department of Tourism (DOT) received mixed reactions from Filipinos. First, the lack of originality was again highlighted after social networking pundits discovered that Switzerland used the exact same slogan in 1951. What shocked and annoyed some Filipinos is that similar accusations of…

Development, Economy, Lifestyle, Media

It’s more fun in the Philippines

January 6, 2012 benign0 80 Comments

Sorry. This is going to be another article that breaches the let’s-not-go-there-please barrier. Fasten your seatbelts. I find it a bit distasteful that we’d be celebrating what a supposedly “fun” place the Philippines is. So I heard today; It’s more fun in the Philippines. That’s the new tourism slogan recently unveiled by the Philippines’ Department…

Development, Economy, Environment, Lifestyle, Media

Chief Justice Renato Corona’s trial-by-publicity heats up as MalacaÃ±ang PR machine switches to overdrive

January 5, 2012January 30, 2012 benign0 61 Comments

It is not very surprising behaviour coming from the parties that seek to oust Chief Justice Renato Corona from the Supreme Court. Even before the 16th of January impeachment trial to be conducted by the Philippine Senate, efforts to sway public opinion by demonising Corona are already underway. The most obvious among these is disclosure…

Crime, Media, Politics, Society

Kabadingan and kalaswaan in Philippine cinema

January 5, 2012December 23, 2016 benign0 76 Comments

Roughly translated in English and taken out outside of the context of homosexuality that it is commonly associated with, the Tagalog colloquial word kabadingan in a cultural sense is a contemporary concept that describes a spectacle of loud contrived crassness or obnoxiousness in both behaviour, design, and aesthetic sensibilities that is indulged in for its…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society

The business of journalism: a challenge of making money without selling your soul

January 4, 2012July 5, 2017 benign0 33 Comments

This is a similar problem I was trying to highlight when I responded to Irene (@mindanaoan) in a Twitter.com tweet with this: “That’s the trouble when society relies on altruism. [You] get into uncomfortable relationships. State services get less personal.” This is after she tweeted about how she “found out that Philip Morris – yep,…

Civics, Education, Media, Politics

Jinkee Pacquiao MEGA cover over-photoshopped?

January 3, 2012 benign0 25 Comments

Media giant ABS-CBN “reported” a while back how Jinkee Pacquiao became more beautiful in what comes across more as an infomercial than the work of real journalism, pitching a cocktail of “products” that account for her new look: Smart Lipo to help her lose 20 pounds; Body Tite which is â€œa body remodelling procedure from…

Glitz and Glamour

The self-inflicted disasters of Philippine New Year celebrations

January 3, 2012 benign0 12 Comments

It is the all-too-familiar case of of the same results brought about by doing the same thing again and again. The Year 2011 ended with the usual bang — Filipino style. The Department of Health (DOH) put the casualty figure of the traditional end-of-year orgy of fire and explosives at 739 injured plus one dead…

Culture, Environment, Government, Media, Society

The official definition of ‘social news network’ @rapplerdotcom

January 2, 2012October 12, 2016 benign0 39 Comments

I came across some chatter on Twitter today regarding some kind of issue around something “veteran journalist” Marites Vitug wrote about the Philippines’ University of Santo Tomas reportedly granting a doctorate in law, summa cum laude, to Chief Justice Renato Corona without requiring a dissertation. I’m thinking, whatever. Granting degrees and distinctions on any person,…

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