Category: Media

A tragic life is one spent noisily demanding respect instead of quietly earning it

April 13, 2011 benign0 9 Comments

Defeated, humiliated, freshly nuked, and under American military occupation, Japan rose from the ashes to become, within three decades, one of the biggest, most prosperous, and most powerful nations on the planet. South Korea, also utterly devastated by a war with the Communist Bloc beavered away; and one day the world woke up to find…

Culture, Development, Media, Society

Noynoy publicly criticizes his own speechwriting staff

April 12, 2011 benign0 17 Comments

In another demonstration of his lack of a deep understanding of the concept of command responsibility, Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino dissed his own speechwriting staff in public. Choosing instead to speak extemporaneously in front of an audience made up of participants in the 10th Student Catholic Action of the Philippines (SCAP) National Leadership Conference…

Government, Media

Filipinos should use the power of social media wisely

April 11, 2011April 13, 2011 Ilda 20 Comments

Social media is less than a decade old. Obviously, when I was a teenager there was no Facebook or Twitter yet. I am so glad for that. At one point or another in our teenage years, we all acted like space cadets. But at least only a handful of people close to us will remember…

Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Technology

PNoy: being president is about hard work and not about popularity

April 7, 2011April 8, 2011 Ilda 24 Comments

They say love hurts. Or at least being rejected does. Whether it is a lover or a friend â€“ they say that being jilted is just like getting punched in the gut. Spare a thought for Philippine President Noynoy Aquino. PNoy and his team were left licking their wounds after their most recent approval rating…

Government, Media, Politics

Noynoy Aquino is on a war path against his critics

April 4, 2011 benign0 3 Comments

When asked by reporters what he was going to do about the dip in his administration’s approval ratings (which slipped several points to 75 percent in the latest survey), Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino’s reply was a classic: he said he would further intensify — and be even more “aggressive” with — trumpeting his “achievements”….

Government, Media

Does Filipino Society treat Children Poorly?

April 3, 2011June 20, 2013 ChinoF 39 Comments

Many were outraged when Willie Revillame goaded a child named Jan-Jan to dance in a macho dancer style. Even while he was already crying, he was still goaded to dance. Needless to say, it already caused a Net Rage and it revived initiatives to permanently censure the long-notorious Revillame, who had smears on his name…

Culture, Media

Sponsors of TV-5’s ‘Willing Willie’ under fire

March 30, 2011 benign0 6 Comments

In recent days, there’s been a clamor for sponsors of the popular game show Willing Willie to “take action” in the aftermath of the alleged abuse of a six year old boy by host Willie Revillame in that show. The behaviour of Revillame in the offending show segment has the potential of making the network…

Civics, Media

The Big Con: The triumphant return of Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson

March 29, 2011 benign0 6 Comments

In Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale Jr (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) manages to cash more than $2.5 million in bogus cheques while eluding law enforcement authorities who pursued him all over the world. Abagnale was eventually caught and his expertise as a forger and counterfeiter was put to good…

Crime, Culture, Media