Category: media
mediocre media
and when the poll count stalled, the tv coverage stopped. anywhere else in the world, a stalled automated election count would have been grist for the mill, something that would have excited, perked up, broadcast media, given them something to … Continue reading
didn’t vote
i had always voted, since the late 1960s when i came of age. never voted for marcos, but he kept winning. voted for cory in 86 but she was cheated and had to mount the huge protest that led to … Continue reading
The refusal to give up today
GIVE UP TOMORROW exposes a Kafkaesque extravaganza populated by flamboyantly corrupt public officials, cops on the take, and a frenzied legal and media circus. It is also an intimate family drama focused on the near mythic struggle of two angry … Continue reading
oh no, another VFA in the making :(
so. the president has certified the ratification of the RP-Australia Visiting Forces Agreement as urgent, and the senate is called upon to approve and make it a binding agreement. yesterday i caught senator miriam on the senate website’s livestream interpellating … Continue reading
claudine, tulfo, media
i disagree with senior journalist luis teodoro that the naia brawl deserved only “passing mention” in the news, the scuffle was a mere “incident of no public consequence,” and “most of us don’t really care” who threw the first punch. it’s … Continue reading
media & the moneyed
The Luisita issue aside, the real problem these days is that PR men have so much clout in media that they can always get their lies told in the guise of news. That, I think, is, in large measure, a … Continue reading