A self-proclaimed Iron Lady from Congress has been taking potshots at the Aquino administration lately, pouncing on pretty much any issue she can. When a mayor from Mindanao complained earlier this year about inadequate calamity assistance in his flooded city, Iron Lady was there to hector him on. Not on the ground, where it would [...]
This has indeed been annus mirabilis, a year of wonders. A sitting senator resigns over allegations of poll fraud, the University of the Philippines wins two basketball games, the President meets with a rebel leader, and the country might actually get back at the Arroyos for playing us for fools for nine years. And wonders [...]
Here is something that we found on Facebook that shows national hero Dr. Jose Rizal is going the way of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. In a few years, Rizal will be a cultural icon whom people will confuse with the lead singer of Queen. This article, published on Dr. Rizal’s birthday and to plug design house [...]
Just so you know, fellow indolent indios, Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s first press conference since moving from the House on the River to the House of Representatives was not held just so she could lambaste the Aquino administration for its lack of leadership. She did not, for example, call her son’s lackey at the [...]
This just in: Rey Joble, whose article on GMA News Online was plagiarized by author Krip Yuson for a magazine article, has left the company. Joble said goodbye on his Facebook account today: After more than a year of writing/editing stories for the sports section of GMA News, the author is bidding goodbye to his [...]
When you live in an absurd world, it’s sometimes hard to know when someone is kidding. Like in the case of tabloid newspaper Abante, which apparently lifted a story from the website of the Filipino Freethinkers. Sadly, that story falls under fake news, a form of comedy made popular in the early 2000s when the [...]
It’s boys versus girls at one major news beat, an anonymous source tells us. The conflict apparently started at a sponsored excursion (which is what people used to call junkets in the 1980s) where tequila (which people used to drink in the 1990s) and hormones combined in a cocktail of conflict. To keep [...]
Reporters have to be accurate about what they write. That’s probably Journalism 101. But that’s not an easy feat when you’re faced with Daniel Matsunaga, who is so many things all at once that you often don’t know where to start.
Here’s a cheerfully confusing Father’s Day headline from the Inquirer: “Girl survives massacre but finds a father and a name.” But what, Inquirer? Call me a stickler for words meaning what they do but doesn’t it suggest that ‘yeah, the girl survived the massacre and then more shit happened’?
Well, all right. The actual headline on ABS-CBN news was “Army sergeant dies in freak accident in Taguig,” but there was nothing really freaky about what happened. A guy has an argument with his wife, walks out, and is run over by a black van. It was surprising, but not freaky by any standard. If [...]