Category: Media

Binay’s estate, Purisima’s mansions, and Aquino’s hacienda – fodder for the same vacuous ‘debate’

Posted on By benign0 7 Comments on Binay’s estate, Purisima’s mansions, and Aquino’s hacienda – fodder for the same vacuous ‘debate’

Pots calling kettles black pretty much summarises the all-too-familiar mudslinging that characterises the political “debate” Filipinos keep their small minds occupied with nowadays. Between the Aquino-Cojuangco bloc, the mansions and SUVs of disgraced police chief Alan Purisima, and the overpriced buildings of 2016 “presidentiable” and current Vice President Jejomar ‘Jojo’ Binay there does not seem…

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Media, Politics, Society

Filipinos give Philippine history’s ‘bad’ guy a second look due to lack of progress

Posted on By Ilda 117 Comments on Filipinos give Philippine history’s ‘bad’ guy a second look due to lack of progress

Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos passed away in 1989 but seeing the way people are talking about him lately, it’s as if he is still alive today. This is evident in the way some members of mainstream media keep reliving the “horrors” of the Marcos years. There are quite a number of articles highlighting the…

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Crime, Development, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Facebook apologises for crackdown on drag queens and LGBT community

Posted on By benign0 5 Comments on Facebook apologises for crackdown on drag queens and LGBT community

The community of “drag queens, drag kings, transgender, and extensive community of our friends, neighbors, and members of the LGBT community” can now rest easy after Facebook promised to improve its system for verifying accounts flagged as “fake” by other users. The social media firm also apologised for what many perceived to be an unwarranted…

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Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society, Tech Talk

Filipinos should address the Philippines’ negative image by fixing its problems

Posted on By Ilda 18 Comments on Filipinos should address the Philippines’ negative image by fixing its problems

Are Filipinos more concerned about projecting a positive image to the international community rather than finding a solution to the negative images that keep finding their way into the hands of international news media organizations? It would seem so. This was evident when a lot of Filipinos felt outraged and demanded an apology from a…

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Development, Economy, Government, Media

#TheNakedTruth fiasco pulls Bench into the mud and #Rappler along with it!

Posted on By benign0 5 Comments on #TheNakedTruth fiasco pulls Bench into the mud and #Rappler along with it!

In its “social media for social good” powow last week, self-described “social news network” Rappler.com furthers the ideal of “women leaders using tech to make an impact on people’s lives” and posed the question “How can all of us, men and women, woman up?” The idea there being that the more traditional notion of “manning…

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Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media

Kabadingan and kalaswaan in Philippine fashion

Posted on By Kate Natividad 54 Comments on Kabadingan and kalaswaan in Philippine fashion

Bad taste plain and simple. What was Bench thinking? Sure the much-hyped fashion show The Naked Truth is all about underwear. But just because it is does not mean the show needs to be borderline pornographic. I mean, get a load of this one by Jake Cuenca. I heard this drew a healthy round of…

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Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Aegis video pits Malaysia’s infrastructure versus the Philippines’ in bid to attract BPO business!

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It seems the Philippines has been singled out by a company in Malaysia as its single biggest competitor for investment in the region. A promotional video produced by a Aegis Malaysia, a global business process outsourcing (BPO) company makes a pitch to its clients to locate their BPO needs in Malaysia by highlighting that country’s…

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Culture, Development, Economy, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Money Talks

Thank you to Star Cinema’s Maria Leonora Teresa for the closure!

Posted on By Kate Natividad 2 Comments on Thank you to Star Cinema’s Maria Leonora Teresa for the closure!

It suddenly now makes sense to me! I’ve always had this song that kept ringing out from childhood memories in my head that sort of went “maria-nora-teresaaannnaaaaa”. All I knew about it is the melody that accompanies it and that it came from a 1970s movie where Tirso Cruz III sang it to Nora Aunor….

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Glitz and Glamour, Media