Tag: activism

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

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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…

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Media, Politics

Maria Ressa needs to take a break from #DefendPressFreedom — because she is the CEO of Rappler!

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If I were a shareholder of “social news network” Rappler, I’d be really pissed. You hire and pay a CEO big bucks and what does she do? She gets my company into a heap of tax trouble and exposes it to a big libel case. Worst of all, she gets arrested and spends most of…

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Business, Media

#DefendPressFreedom “activists” shriek “stop the attacks”. But no such “attacks” exist!

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Dressed in black, not in their traditional yellow for some reason, the usual faces representing the usual “activism” is fired up once again. But, really, what are they on fire about? That’s the million-peso question. The sheer volume and shrillness of the noise surrounding what is essentially the vacuous notion of some sort of “attack…

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Crime, Media

The “movement” to #DefendPressFreedom is all about Maria Ressa and not much else

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If #DefendPressFreedom was the burning national issue Maria Ressa makes it out to be, why aren’t politicians making it a cornerstone of their campaign? The fact is, it isn’t relevant because it is a non-issue. Maria Ressa was arrested for charges related to her conduct as leader of a news media organisation. Her case has…

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Crime, Media

“Activist” @TonyoCruz evasive when asked if he is a communist but is quick to answer dumb questions

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When asked on Q&A site Curious Cat why he is a communist, commie “activist” Tonyo Cruz fails to give a straight answer… But when asked a dumb question, the answer flows forth like a deep river… But that’s no surprise of course. ? benign0Webmaster of Get Real Philippines

Lifestyle

The mystery of the Yellowtard @MiaMagdalena’s sudden disappearance from Twitter… #PABoost casualty?

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Back a few days, I noted the sudden mysterious disappearance of a noted Yellowtard Twitter user who goes by the handle @MiaMagdalena. This Twitter user is a member of an active mob of Yellowtard Twitter accounts renowned for their ferocious attacks against the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and their gang-bullying of Twitter users…

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Education

Maria Ressa in an interview with @karaswisher admits that journalists are now “forced to be activists”!

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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?”…

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Media

SJW “outrage” over Cove Manila balloon stunt a case of too little too fake

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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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Environment

What good are effigies? What NEXT after you burn them?

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I don’t get effigies. Does, say, displaying a painting of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte sporting the same styled moustache worn by Adolf Hitler necessarily make him the same as Der Fuhrer? And by burning this effigy, does that make one’s committing these “symbols” to flames akin to casting a spell or hex on the people…

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Religion, Society & Culture

Did the Yellowtards who called on fans to “wear black” walk their talk during the game?

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The Opposition led by the Yellowtards should improve the way they co-ordinate their “activism”. After an impassioned call for basketballdom to wear black during Game 1 of the UAAP match between the University of the Philippines and the Ateneo, nobody seemed to have heeded the ill-thought-out “urge”. Not even Yellowtard senatorial candidate Florin Hilbay could…

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Politics, Society & Culture