Should media enter politics? Beyond its role of delivering information and facilitating public discourse on almost anything, what happens when a media company fields its own candidates and use its resources to engage in what could be construed as partisan activities? Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for April, 2007
Manila Times and Ahon Pinoy
April 29, 2007Pitchay’s in, administration is ‘elated’
April 24, 2007Well, the administration is elated with recent SWS survey. Presidential Political Gabby Claudio says it’s the administration’s machinery beginning to deliver.
I’m not really sure what Gabby is gloating about. He must be proud of Pitchay, who appears to be doing well in another survey. Here’s something to spite those who ridicule Pitchay. I fished this out from a mailing list (Thanks, Glenn!) and it looks credible.
Pitchay No. 3 na sa Survey. Yehey!!!
Sa wakas #3 na sa survey ang Pitchay as most favorable top 12 highfiber vegetable sa palengke.
1. Kangkong
2. Mustasa
3. PITCHAY
4. Repolyo
5. Alugbati
6. Saluyot
7. Lechugas
8. kamote tops
9. Dahon ng gabi
10. Sibuyas mura’
11. Sayote tops
12. Dahon siliPitchay - ibaon sa lupa!
Babae ka
April 23, 2007Babae Ka, one of the party-list groups that is allegedly fronting for Malacanang, is frothing in the mouth. In a letter-complaint addressed to COMELEC Chair Benjamin Abalos, it urged the poll body to disqualify AKBAYAN for divulging Babae Ka’s nominees. In AKBAYAN’s Bare the List blog, Babae Ka hurled a few other accusations: that AKBAYAN representatives in Congress did nothing to amend the Party-list law (RA 7941), and that in AKBAYAN’s stay in Congress since 1998, it failed to achieve anything. Read the rest of this entry »
Paulo
April 20, 2007My sincere apologies for my unintentional hiatus. I did try to write, and there are entries that are half-finished, but work has been astoundingly hectic because of the campaign period. I have decided to post this today, though, to celebrate the life of a good friend.
In that brief childhood phase where friendships were unadulterated by stereotypes and stigma, I met Paulo. He was the only childhood friend who could match my sense of adventure and wanderlust. We grew up together, with him tagging along in our trips to remote beaches or to our palaisdaan. We’d bike together, plot experiments, or just trade stories endlessly. We’d stargaze in their roofdeck, too, and make futile attempts to locate constellations using American sky maps. We got introduced to Greek mythology at the same time, and soon, along with aliens and UFO sightings, Greek heroes would figure in the stories that we shared to spend the long summer afternoons. Read the rest of this entry »
