How to be happy in a time of COVID-19 lockdown
The biggest challenge facing Filipinos nowadays is how to stay sane under a pandemic lockdown. Filipinos are suffering among the most severe restrictions to their movements in the world as …
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Tricia and Aika Robredo are a couple of spoilt brats
Have Tricia and Aika, daughters of “vice president” Leni Robredo, owned up to the now-infamous tweet conversation that started a fire? It seems not, seeing that no less than the …
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Instead of blaming the gov’t for the rise in COVID-19 cases, people should take responsibility for keeping their communities safe
I was having a conversation with a friend about the COVID-19 pandemic the other day. I asked him why people around the world, not just in the Philippines, blame their …
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The KADAMAY mentality of ABS-CBN
Despite many Filipinos including former contracted talent moving on with their lives, ABS-CBN continue a melodramatic emotional blackmail campaign to remind the public how “dependent” they are on the network …
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“Wisdom of the crowds” and “power to the people” debunked: What’s next for democracy and social media?
You’d think the Senate probe on “fake news” would be an undertaking in aid of legislation. Thus the presumption underlying such a probe is that some sort of legislation will …
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A desperate Maria Ressa blames Facebook for Rappler’s inevitable demise
Maria Ressa, CEO of “social news site” Rappler has gone too far. Rather than own up to her failure to build a credible news media organisation that could compete in …
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The poor should be considered equal participants in the economy, not ‘victims’ of it
How can we “help the poor”? It depends on one’s definition of “helping”. At its worst, “helping the poor” is seen by many as simply dropping a few coins in …
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