They are not new issues, but these three points are worth reexamining in the time of ABS-CBN’s second closure. 1. Most media in the Philippines are either owned by politicians or business interests with political connections. Even the vaunted “fact-checkers” such as CMFR and Vera Files have admitted this. ABS-CBN has long been connected…
A report from Inquirer.net by Darryl John Esguerra highlighted the gaffe of several pro-administration “netizens” who mass-reported an Indian school’s page thinking it was the public-shaming site targeting Duterte supporters, as they have virtually the same name (DDS Confessions). This is at the heels of a recent controversy largely ignored by mainstream media but did…
Hey Alan, here’s a song for you from Yano before Dong Abay became a certified whack-o shitting nonsense in social media: Wala kang silbe! Walakang silbe sa amin! Trapo, trapo ka kasi Trapo! Trapo, trapo ka kasi! Di na binoboto, pero nanalo Di na binoboto, pero nanalo Enjoy it while you can, Uncle Fester. People…
An interesting development to all these public-shaming mess involving the Facebook site DDS Confessions is the alleged involvement of a physician currently working in the East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC). A certain Dr. Edrie Alcanzare had been in the crosshairs of several pro-administration social media personalities for a few days now because of some intriguing…
At the forefront of all this recent public-shaming controversy of regular people is a Facebook page called “DDS Confessions” . The page is currently inaccessible but its Twitter counterpart is still up and running. At first glance you’ll probably assume this was one of the usual hardcore DDS pages devoted to propagating the cult-like following…
That schoolteacher with his P50M bounty for Duterte’s head is a harmless nut as far as I’m concerned. The real insidious ones are several FB pages and Twitter profiles that humiliate ordinary citizens by grabbing their photos without consent, their public statements, to make memes out of them as materials to be humiliated by their…
Happy mother’s day to everyone. I’d like to discuss what I believe to be the greatest mother’s day movie, and it’s none other than James Cameron’s ALIENS. It’s practically a face-off between two mothers. In this corner we have Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley played masterfully by Sigourney Weaver. This sequel finds our alien-killing protagonist waking…
Ang hindi mapigilang gawain ng maraming tao ay palabasin na problema ng buong bansa o kahit ng buong mundo pa nga ang isang bagay na, sa totoo, ay personal mo lang na problema. Bakit ba nahihiya ang mga tao aminin na pansariling kapakanan nila ang pangunahin nilang isinusulong? Ano ang nakakahiya doon? Ano ba ang…
One of the funniest things I’ve heard from people ranting against Duterte is how they hate “one man-rule.” I wonder if they honestly think Duterte is in control of everything. Of course, I had the same idea before as a youngster, when I relied on sources that kept playing up how one person could be…
Looking at the recent wave of posts from ABS-CBN talents, one cannot deny the anger and frustration that comes out of them. You can accuse them of bad acting or being talentless hacks if you want, but you cannot deny that at this point, a lot of them aren’t acting anymore when they posted on…