Monthly Archive: February 2019
Senatorial bet Erin Tañada may be losing votes of voters after this photo he shared with a woman fish vendor goes viral on Facebook. The photo was uploaded by the Facebook page VoVph just today, …
ABS-CBN is in hot water once again after a state University in the Visayas has cried foul over an article headline that “makes it easy for readers to misinterpret it as ex-officials of their school.” …
Atty. Larry Gadon is a total unknown in Philippine politics and that explains his poor showing in the SWS and Pulse Asia surveys among senatoriables. However, after his impressive stint in “Halalan 2019”, people are …
When Maria Ressa was arrested following a cyberlibel case filed by a private citizen, ABS-CBN quickly denounced the Duterte government for violating freedom of speech. Ironically, ABS-CBN does not seem to practice what it preaches. …
Senatorial candidate Doc Willie Ong has taken to Facebook, accusing Comelec of going hard against newcomers like him while showing leniency to oldtimers. Ong cited the the poll body’s lukewarm attitude towards candidates spending millions …
The arrest of Rappler’s Maria Ressa as a result of a cyberlibel case filed by a private citizen has created quite a stir on social media. Re-electionist Senator Grace Poe, despite being leading the senatoriable …
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour remarked on Twitter following Maria Ressa’s arrest that you know a government is desperate when they arrest a journalist. Amanpour’s eyebrow raising tweet did not escape the radar of highly opinionated, combative …
The Maria Ressa cyberlibel case has been hotly debated on social media by supporters of the opposing camps. Lawyers Erin Tanada and Leni Robredo argued that since the libelous article of Rappler was published online …
The last few days, the public have been bombarded by the theatrics of Rappler’s Maria Ressa on social media and on primetime TV, screaming all her might that her arrest was political for exposing the …
Before the advent of social media like Facebook and Twitter, journalists feed the public lies and half-truths without fear, knowing they can get away with it. Imagine when social media is non-existent in 2019 and …
