Posts Tagged ‘abs-cbn’

Much of the criticism surrounding the handling of the Manila hostage crisis that ended in the preventable deaths of eight Hong Kong tourists had to do with the intrusive coverage of the event by the Philippine Media. Had the hostage-taker, ex-police officer Rolando Mendoza, (who had access to a TV set installed in the besieged bus) not been kept abreast of police personnel ... Full story

They control electricity, they control water, they control telecommunications - and more recently - they now control roads - that's what you get for privatizing without liberalization - monopolies and vested interests in bed with government. Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC), formerly First Philippine Infrastructure, Inc (FPII), is a Philippines-based holding company. The Company acts as a holding company for the shares of Benpres Holdings ... Full story

The word escapism, as defined in the Net, refers to a mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation, as an "escape" from the perceived unpleasant or banal aspects of daily life. It can also be used as a term to define the actions people take to help relieve persisting feelings of depression or general sadness. Ironically, for a society that claims to be always ... Full story

I say - More WOTL Less Wowowee. Finally, the Philippines has a TV show that tells it as it is. Initially, I thought it was an indie-film. But obviously, it isn't. The Philippine entertainment industries reason for producing B-movies and re-imagined Mexican/Korean/HK telenovelas is that there is no market for such fare. I find that hard to believe.... Full story

Some people will tell me that I’m cruel or even racist to say "Filipinos are stupid." But the thing is, open your eyes… there they are. But I also agree that the Filipino is not necessarily stupid... they just choose not to use their coconut shells. Full story

Kuryente, or electricity, is the term Filipino journalists use when reporters get “electrocuted” by wrong information. ABS-CBN, a sister company of kuryente firm Meralco until Manny Pangilinan’s recent takeover, is on its way to becoming a regular source of kuryente. Philippine Star columnist Federico Pascual tells how his name was falsely included by ABS-CBN in a report on Gloria Arroyo’s “midnight” appointments. Full story

Noted blogger Manuel L Quezon III provides us with a very informative piece on the rich traditions and symbolisms ingrained into the process of a new President assuming his office in Malacanang. In his recent piece Notes for the coming inaugural, Quezon highlights three rather interesting steps inherent to the traditional rites of transition of power in the highest office of the Philippine ... Full story

The way they vote shows that Filipinos love to live on dole-outs. Full story

According to the Inquirer.net editor in his most recent Op-Ed, "President"-elect Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III garnered "the most remarkable mandate since the present Constitution’s ratification in 1987". Dude. And I thought the Inquirer.net had behaved like such a pathetic lackey of the Yellow Army all through the last twelve to 24 months leading up to this ... Full story

First of all I'd like to express how proud I am of the Philippines' Commission on Elections (COMELEC). It overcame the hexes cast upon it by shamans in the Philippine Media and the parties they supported, and stepped up in the face of overwhelming disapproval. Amidst the descent to a primitivist government, the COMELEC stands tall as a lone beacon of modernism in our backward ... Full story

Can somebody please turn back the hands of time? Where is Superman?!? We don't have enough time to convince the majority of Filipino voters that they are making a huge mistake by voting for Noynoy! I keep thinking to myself, what if I had written about the owners of SWS and Pulse Asia earlier on say, three months ago? I wonder if the ... Full story

This is it guys. If the following information does not convince you not to vote for Noynoy Aquino, I don't know what will. Heck, Noynoy's alleged mental disorder is ok with you, so it is so hard to tell what else can convince you that he is not the right man for the top job. You know ... Full story

Back in the early eighties amidst the "revolutionary" spirit following the assassination of Noynoy's daddy Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr, one of the initiatives that really caught on was the boycott of what were at the time the biased newspapers Daily Express and the Manila Bulletin, and Marcos-crony businesses such as Rustan's and San Miguel Corp. History does ... Full story

The quintessential Sen. Richard Gordon is honest, straightforward, is not a panderer, and tells it as it is in his latest interview with Bandila's Ces Drilon.Issues addressed: The survey issue; The "short-temper" issue and how it transformed Subic and got the Automated Poll Act passed; "Excuse me - I have been a Red Cross volunteer for 42 YEARS; " Lito Lapid was able to ... Full story

Filipinos Should Protect the Ballot - Against Noynoy Aquino Do you really believe that just because Noynoy lost, he was cheated? Survey are snapshots of a general frame of mind during a certain period in time. Just because there is a preference for one candidate does not mean that the preference will be sustained until election day. Many things can still happen - the ball is ... Full story

They say elections are won and lost over the state of the economy and the mind-set of wage earners. Since the Philippine economy has been in stagnation for the last three decades over several administrations, it can instead be said that elections in the country are won and lost over someone dying and the mind-set of ... Full story

AP would like to thank AP commenter boombox, for mentioning the book "Greed And Betrayal" by Cecilio Arilio. As the election draws closer, we really need to think seriously about allowing the same incompetent people of "Tita Cory" back into the Presidency come 2010. From that starting point, we read Qtbabe's ... Full story

I recall as a nine-year-old making my folks and grandparents gasp when I remarked how I wished that the Philippines had remained an American colony so that we could have grapes and chocolates all year round and no brownouts. By about that age I was noticing how on Sesame Street kids were adivised to go to ... Full story

I was a teenager in 1986 when the first Edsa "Revolution" erupted. The sound of this "eruption" for me was the murmer of a crowd queueing at a fishball stand or playing pusoy dos with their pals on a sidewalk while smoking Marlboro "Blue Seals". An anticlimactic account, yes, but the thing about the first Edsa ... Full story

Got a heads up about ABS-CBN winding up its taping of another episode of "Maalaala mo kaya" featuring "karitonkid". Obviously, it's another source of content to bolster its ratings - no different from CNN allowing multiple votes per person in its Heroes program. My first reaction was here we go again. Another opportunity ... Full story

I was reading rafterman's insightful piece on the Wowowee idiocracy that goes by the name "the Philippines" and it suddenly hit me that the real election that we really need to have in our sad society does not involve selecting our politicial leader. Indeed, the nature of the whole debate that underpins this year's elections ... Full story

We often hear the phrase "culture of impunity" attributed to Filipinos. Indeed, nothing could be more true. We so incline ourselves to latching on to improper habits that present no immediately unpleasant outcomes without really understanding long-term ramifications associated with said habits. Impunity fits snugly within a more holistic framework that describes in a coherent structure the disastrous nature of Philippine society's imprisonment in itsdysfunctional culture ... Full story

I can still remember a time when The Media used to be squarely on the side of those who've made it their mission to instigate meaningful change in our society. In the periods between 1983 (when Benigno Aquino was assassinated) and 1986 (when Cory Aquino took Malacanang), I can honestly say that The Media played a critical role in the success of that "revolution". Between 1983 ... Full story