Jun 22, 2022 9:17 PM PHT Jairo Bolledo (UPDATED) UP professor Ela Atienza says the move signals an attempt at continuity and flexing of muscles on the part of the NTF-ELCAC, anti-terror, and anti-insurgency groups within the Duterte administration MANILA, Philippines – Less than two weeks before the new administration takes over, the National Telecommunications…
Jun 19, 2022, Loreben Tuquero Marcos’ disinformation machinery – which was years in the making – was complemented by his alliance with Duterte and the disinformation that the President enabled at the state level MANILA, Philippines – On social media, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. needed to have all pieces in place to stage a Malacañang comeback:…
Xave Gregorio – Philstar.com June 17, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — Fear. Shock. Disbelief. For some journalists, election night was a nightmare possibility they tried not to dwell on, clinging to the smallest shred of hope until the possibility became certainty. As results poured in at an unprecedented speed on the evening of May 9, they watched on TV…
By Jeline Malasig, June 14, 2022 Constitutional rights were stressed after the acting police chief said they would only allow rallyists supporting president-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. near his inauguration site on June 30. Police Lt. Gen. Vicente Danao Jr., the officer-in-charge of the national police force until a new chief is named, was asked about…
Philstar.com, June 15, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — There is nothing wrong with reporting on peasant rights and other issues of public, journalists said after the Philippine National Police questioned the presence of media workers at a land cultivation activity in Tarlac. Eleven journalists, including nine campus journalists, were among those arrested during a ‘bungkalan’ (land cultivation)…
Balitang New York, June 6, 2022, New York City – Chants that denounced the incoming president and vice president of the Philippines reverberated along Madison Avenue as nearly 500 marched in the Never Forget! Contingent that rounded out the eleven block parade route along Madison Avenue in the Philippine Independence Day Celebration (PIDC) in New…
Wilfredo Garrido, FB post If she were born today, it is unlikely she will ever become a “superstar”. Dark, short, with homely features, she won’t stand out among the mestizas, the perfect products of beauty pageants, the inbred kids of celebrity families who dominate today’s show business. But in the 1960s, this innocent girl from…
Nathalie Tomada – The Philippine Star, June 13, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — The film community has celebrated the recent announcement of three “historic” National Artists for Film and Broadcast Arts. Actress Nora Aunor, screenwriter Ricardo “Ricky” Lee and the late director Marilou Diaz-Abaya were named new recipients of the highest national honor given to Filipinos…