Category: media
too much ado over phnoy photo
yes it’s an awful photo, but all the crap about the tacky wallpaper, the huge ashtray and pack of cigarettes, susmaryosep, are neither here nor there in the context of the larger picture, the larger question, of where his daang … Continue reading
media complicit in division over RH bill
after ANC’s harapan RH debate last night, i’m really hoping that GMA news and public affairs will rethink its promised “definitive debate” on may 22. is a debate really the way to go? we’ve heard them all before, especially the … Continue reading
protecting a plagiarist
when mainstream media can and do ignore the scandalous plagiarism of a krip yuson, when he continues to write a column for the arts and culture section of philippine star, if he continues to write for rogue magazine, when he … Continue reading
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