It’s time to fact check Rappler again. In a fluff piece meant primarily to feature “vice president” Leni Robredo’s address to “a forum of local and international journalists.” Included in this “report” is this passage… The Duterte administration has targeted certain journalists and news organizations like Rappler for their critical reporting on its policies, actions,…
In these times of global crisis when strong measures need to be implemented and people need to co-operate and work together with their governments to mitigate further risks to the rest of humanity, people like Rappler “reporter” Natashya Gutierrez are a dangerous lot. Calling for people to demand conditions before complying with government measures to…
Showbiz celebrity Bianca Gonzalez issued a much-needed call to co-operate with measures being implemented to slow the spread of the coronavirus pathogen. This is very relevant in a time of mass panic much of which is being incited by misguided “thought leaders”. A kind and respectful request to friends to not call this "martial law",…
Trust the media? They are making a lot of money off the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to their busywork “reporting” on the crisis. But then you gotta ask: If vastly more people die from hunger than from the coronavirus, why aren’t the media kicking up a proportionate frenzy over world hunger? Well, this is because stories…
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As the COVID-19 outbreak crisis unfolds, large gatherings of people have started to attract attention. Not surprisingly, the tradition of Filipino foreign workers congregating at Lucky Plaza in Singapore has come under the spotlight… Every Sunday, large groups of maids congregate at Lucky Plaza and the open fields beside Kallang and Paya Lebar MRT stations….
The Philippines remains suspect as a country close to the epicenter of the global COVID-19 outbreak that seems to be lax in its testing and possibly underreporting infection rates. A case reportedly hitting Deloitte Philippines which holds office at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig highlights the risks posed by the disease on the Philippines’…
As if TIME Magazine had not learned any lessons over the course of its slide to irrelevance over the last decade or so, it goes on and reportedly names Rappler CEO Maria Ressa among its “100 Women of the Year”. Time‘s “100 Women of the Year,” a list of the most influential women of the…
The Philippines’ showbiz fandom is abuzz over yesterday’s ambush of ABS-CBN mega-star Kim Chiu. Fortunately no one was hurt and it was business as usual for Chiu and her staff for the rest of the day. Some debate around the circumstances surrounding the incident, however, raised some interesting things about the latest Kapamilya drama. The…
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Once again, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte defied an ongoing demonisation campaign being mounted by the Philippine Opposition against him to emerge an even stronger incumbent to deal with. The latest Pulse Asia Survey showed Duterte’s approval rating at 87 percent, up nine points from the last published results. Duterte’s total urban approval rating jumped 16…
Queried on the now-infamous video of Senator Franklin Drilon seemingly dozing off in the middle of an interview she was conducting, broadcast journalist Pinky Webb issued a statement supposedly “clarifying” what really happened. Here’s what happened. As I was laying the premise for my question, I saw Sen Drilon look down at the documents he…
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