As if it weren’t enough that strong evidence has emerged that Facebook boosts of articles published on Jover Laurio’s Pinoy Ako Blog are funded by the “Crazy Rich Asian” herself, more leaks from behind the Yellow curtain continue to flood social media. Presumably we have to thank the spectacular falling out between the Crazy Rich…
In a November 2018 interview with Kara Swisher, technology business journalist and co-founder of Recode, Maria Ressa admitted: “I think we’ve been forced to be activists now.” This is exactly the problem with journalism today which I laid out in my recent article, “What does Maria Ressa’s participation in New York City’s #NYE2018 festivities mean?”…
What appear to be screenshots of Facebook Messenger chats between Yellowtard blogger Jover Laurio and Nicko Falcis have emerged. The conversations supposedly between Laurio and Falcis seem to involve instructions and confirmation to “boost” (pay Facebook for extra exposure on users’ timelines) Laurio’s articles published on her site Pinoy Ako Blog (PAB). The screenshots were…
The New Year 2019 holds a lot of promise — if Filipinos get rid of even just one frailty of character — hypocrisy. When Filipinos stop being hypocrites, then real work towards real goals can begin. Hypocrites are generally people who lack empathy. They believe that it is their birthright to be sole judges of…
A certain Twitter user @pinoymommy recently got herself into a heap of trouble after she took to Twitter to express a desire to inflict harm on Ilocos Governor Imee Marcos after spotting her dining at a restaurant. In a follow-up tweet, she remains unrepentant and asserts an adamamt position on her own sense of righteousness……
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Filipino environmental “activists” are up in arms over a plan to drop thousands of balloons as part of an event to mark a “record-breaking welcome to 2019” for beach resort Cove Manila. An online petition set up to protest this activity asserts… It’s 130,000 plastic/rubber balloons we are talking about here — at a single…
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I am Italian and my wife is Bulaquenya and sure enough she gobbles up tons of rice. I am concerned for a very important reason, to put it simply: white rice, the staple food of Filipinos, is high on the glycemic index and increases the risk of diabetes. This is certainly not an attack on…
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The title alone says something of the lofty pedestal upon which some “thought leaders” of the Philippine Opposition have set themselves upon. Tonyo Cruz’s piece (Some) evil was defeated published on Rappler presumes to paint a narrative of Good vs Evil with, of course, his handpicked cronies cast as the good guys. Most bizarre of…
Sure there are good Filipino films that attract the attention of quirky art awards bodies every now and then. But why are the hits confined to low-brow downright crappy flicks that cast the likes of Vice Ganda, Vic Sotto, and Kris Aquino? The key lies in the Filipino audience. Filipinos don’t like to think. Therefore…
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Filipino “Netizens” are supposedly at arms over the latest littering scandal to make the rounds — this year, specifically, the mounds of rubbish left by Christmas revelers at the Luneta this year. Again. But this just follows a long tradition of slobbery as evident in these search results. Yellowtard senatorial candidate Florin Hilbay went as…
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