GUESS WHAT, PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER? FUNNY FACES ARE ONLY FUNNY WHEN THEY’RE MADE ON PURPOSE, AND NOT WHEN THEY’RE THE UNCONTROLLABLE RESULT OF A DEBILITATING CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT.
People of the press love raffles, and why not? We may never become the people we cover, but at least there’s a way for us to (arguably) legitimately get some of their spoils. The rationale/justification being it’s not a pay off if everyone has an equal chance at winning. And given how much we make, even [...]
A veteran employee at one government office stands to lose his retirement benefits over a bullshit complaint by a reporter from a small (in size and circulation) paper. The reporter has accused the employee, who works in the media division of that government office, of kicking him and cursing at him over some minor misunderstanding. [...]
Here’s a nice reversal on things. Sectoral group Bayan Muna filed a plunder case against Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Thursday over the failed ZTE National Broadband Network deal. Reporters scrambled to cover it and got the story. Here is a sidebar to the whole thing: While this was going on, politician sent out a text [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]