Category: media
social media as mosquito press
biyaheng EDSA: saan ba papunta? – this was the question posed by ateneo’s politicial science organization’s politalk last january 31 that katrina and i attended. my answer (via a powerpoint presentation by ina) was to point out that in both … Continue reading
“big bad blogger”
Jagged Jaded Journalist and the Big Bad Blogger Danilo Araña Arao On a slow news day (Sunday), a journalist opts to write about an irresponsible blogger who allegedly conspired with a public relations firm to extort money from a restaurant … Continue reading
RH hurrahs! and a boo
the first HURRAH! is for dr. sylvia claudio, director of the u.p. center for women’s studies, who spoke up in congress at the 2nd deliberation of the house committee of population and family relations on the critical question of when … Continue reading
televise the trial
In spite of the fact that the Maguindanao Massacre is an open-and-shut case, with the guilt of the accused very clear, justice for the victims and their families is still far off. Can’t P-Noy’s administration and the Supreme Court make … Continue reading
the oldies & social media
post-mislang there was The petty perils of tech and sosyal ek-ek from krip yuson, “an older writer’s diatribe about online youngsters and their tweeting ways” (as the editor puts it, in the intro to katrina’s response) even if it was … Continue reading
media, priests & abortion
media is plural for mediocre, rene saguisag says in his manila times column on the same day that mark robert b. baldo in a letter to the inquirer editor decries the failure of media to level-up the public debate on … 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
plagiarism, manny pangilinan, karen davila
no wonder manny pangilinan a.k.a. MVP needs a ghostwriter for his speeches. if his apology to fr. ben nebres is any indication — i’m supposing he wrote it himself — his english isn’t all that great pala: I have been … Continue reading