Tag: press freedom

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa admits to receiving $4.5 MILLION from Pierre Omidyar!

July 13, 2019July 13, 2019 benign0 No Comments

Under intense grilling by Ezra Levant, “Rebel Commander” at The Rebel in a conference on “media freedom” hosted by media billionaire Pierre Omidyar, Rappler CEO Maria Ressa inadvertently admitted that she had received $4.5 million in funding from Omidyar. Interestingly, Levant’s question was initially directed to Nishant Lalwani, Director of Investments of the Omidyar Group…

Media

Maria Ressa pounces like an attack dog as @EzraLevant grills her boss Pierre Omidyar

July 12, 2019 benign0 No Comments

Not all Westerners are buying Rappler CEO Maria Ressa’s lies. In a recent conference on, you guessed it “media freedom” hosted by Pierre Omidyar, Ressa is seen behaving like an attack dog after Ezra Levant, “Rebel Commander” at The Rebel, challenged the ideas of Omidyar. Maria Ressa hijacked the microphone, and proceeded to call Levant…

Media

Amal Clooney was right about Arroyo in 2015 but today she is wrong about Maria Ressa’s “case”

July 9, 2019July 9, 2019 ilda No Comments

Maria Ressa is insulting Filipino lawyers by hiring foreigners to defend her. I suppose it’s because it’s mostly foreigners who buy her lies. More importantly, foreigners lack a broad understanding of the context behind those lies. These foreigners should take time out to recall just a few years back how no less than their resident…

Crime

Maria Ressa INSULTS the Philippines’ judiciary by taking her tax evasion case to a FOREIGN court

July 9, 2019 benign0 No Comments

Tax evasion is a domestic issue that can be handled internally within the Philippines through its criminal justice system. It seems, however, that Rappler CEO Maria Ressa begs to be above that system and, in essence, above Philippine law itself. News has recently come out that celebrity lawyer Amal Clooney will be “representing” Ressa in…

Crime, Media

President Duterte remains popular because he focuses on solving problems RELEVANT to ordinary Filipinos

May 7, 2019November 11, 2019 benign0 No Comments

One of the reasons Duterte’s popularity continues to rise while the opposition continues to fail is because Duterte also targets the little problems in parts of the country that were ignored by the previous administrations – while the opposition focuses on Luzon problems. Take for example the free irrigation enacted by Duterte. You think the…

Government, Politics

Ellen Tordesillas contradicts Maria Ressa, says “PH Journalism is as vibrant as ever”!

April 23, 2019 benign0 No Comments

Queen of Philippine “fact checkers” Ellen Tordesillas finally fact checks Rappler CEO Maria Ressa! Ressa, we recall, has been insisting that “press freedom” is “under threat” in the Philippines which we have long pointed out is a complete lie. Fortunately Tordesillas had recently come to her senses and acknowledge too in a tweet that Ressa…

Media

Maria Ressa in BIG TROUBLE for falsely accusing Duterte supporters of being “paid trolls” who are under “marching orders”!

February 23, 2019 benign0 No Comments

Maria Ressa is supposedly incensed by a protest activity instigated by activist Mark Lopez who visited the office building of Rappler to express outrage over her global campaign to vilify the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (watch video on Twitter and on Facebook). Ressa claims that online trolls paid for and directed by the…

Media

Inquirer editor John Nery’s (@jnery_newsstand) intelligence-insulting FAQs on Maria Ressa’s “press freedom” circus

February 19, 2019 benign0 No Comments

Inquirer editor John Nery asks himself a simple question in his column today, Assault on press freedom? Q and A: “If the cyberlibel case [against Maria Ressa] was presumed regular, why is it an assault on press freedom?” You’d think Nery would take this opportunity to articulate a really precise answer to this question to…

Crime, Media

De La Salle Philippines president Armin Luistro BURNT by LaSallian community following call to support Maria Ressa!

February 18, 2019 benign0 No Comments

De La Salle Philippines president Armin Luistro the other day issued a baldly presumptuous call to action to — presumably all — “LaSallians” to support embattled Rappler CEO Maria Ressa. Let’s give our all out support as Lasallians to Rappler. Let’s defend press freedom. Let’s make our voices heard. Let’s vote with our feet and…

Education, Media

“Press freedom” is not the Philippines’ most important issue. It really isn’t.

February 17, 2019 benign0 No Comments

If one uses Twitter to sample the general sentiment of the Filipino public, you’d think “press freedom” is top of mind for the majority of Filipinos. With the shrillness of the rhetoric of “activists” that populate social media, one would be forgiven in thinking that “press freedom” is the game-changing issue that will determine this…

Media, Politics

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