Category: aug 23
ashamed ! #aug23
WHY WHY WHY is president aquino snubbing the survivors and families of the victims of the august 23 hostage-taking massacre who are back in town, no matter how they fear and hate manila? why has he denied them an audience … Continue reading
no laws broken, no heads rolling
heard national anti-poverty commission chief joel rocamora in a bbc interview saying that no laws were broken by top officials in the august 23 bus hostages bloodbath. eight hong kong chinese died needlessly violently in the hands of a mentally … Continue reading
aug 23, vilifying media
I was in San Francisco when I watched this sorry episode. CNN had the story but their thrust was not so much that there was a hostage situation in Manila (incidents like these, unfortunately, frequently happen worldwide), but that “the … Continue reading
Truth and consequence
Luis V. Teodoro Congressional hearings are held “in aid of legislation,” and the leading members of the Senate committee on public information and mass media, and the committee on public services, made it clear last Tuesday that they did not … Continue reading
media & national interest
in the senate inquiry into media’s role in the aug. 23 hostage-taking, senate president juan ponce enrile was critical of maria ressa’s wall street journal article, Noynoy Flunks His First Test. What prompted you to write such a critique … … Continue reading
ressa, media, flunk test
wazzup, maria ressa? nagulat, hindi, nagulumihanan, naman ako sa iyong Noynoy Flunks His First Test, published monday sept 6 sa the wall street journal online, then a couple or so days later sa abs-cbn website. parang at this point … Continue reading
BRIEF NARRATIVES
Edel Garcellano 1. The Chinese Was handcuffed To the door When the gunman Started firing behind him, He struggled madly… Nothing, after all, Had escaped him Throughout the ordeal – The rat-tat-tat, The screaming… And every second that ticked edged … Continue reading
what if
i had been wondering how erap or villar or gibo or gordon would have handled the aug 23 hostage-taking, in contrast of course to the low-key laid-back wait-it-out style of the new prez. and then i read this in facebook … Continue reading