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Of Golf, the Internet and Elites
Whoever said that golf is a gentleman’s game has never played at the Valley Golf and Country Club. The now infamous incident involving Department of Agrarian Reforms Secretary Nasser Pangandaman, his namesake, Nasser, Jr. , mayor of Masui, Lanao Del sur, and their friends and bodyguards who beat up two persons, Delfin De La Paz [...]
Shipping Industry (Supposedly) Closes Ranks Behind Sulpicio Lines
A full page ad has been published in the Inquirer by alleged members of shipping industry associations purporting to be an open letter to GMA beseeching her to lift the suspension on Sulpicio Lines’ operations.
In convoluted and overwrought language, the signatories to the “Appeal to the President” calls the halting of the shipping company’s [...]
Typhoon Frank, the MV Princess of the Stars Tragedy and the Culture of Disaster
Typhoon Frank formally ushered in the 2008 season of death and destruction, which came early this year, as the more cataclysmic storms, according to PAG-ASA, usually occur during the latter half of the year. And they hardly ever hit the areas of the Visayas where they did the most damage. Frank was a freak. This [...]
The Ces Drilon Kidnapping and the Changing Face of Philippine Journalism
Today’s Inquirer headline whines “We Asked for Ces, Got Angelo Instead”, quoting negotiators acting in behalf of the hostages. Well, Duh. A kidnapping is not a fast-food meal, where you get exactly what you ask for. In a kidnapping the kidnappers have the upper hand, in case this fact wasn’t obvious to the negotiators, [...]
The Meralco Fiasco
Egg on Winston Garcia’s chubby face, is how the government’s attempt to wrest control of Meralco from the Lopezes turned out.
It was poorly conceived and executed in the first place, driven purely by President’s Arroyo’s objective of playing the populist card, without regard to whether it would really succeed.
With Winston Garcia as [...]
A Season of Violence and Death
Rom wrote with anguish on the deaths of ten individuals, murder victims who were killed in a successful robbery of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) branch in Cabuyao, Laguna. They were murdered, meaning they were deliberately, willfully and premeditatedly killed in cold blood by the murderers who merely wanted, in all probability, [...]
Blog or Perish
Luis Teodoro, journalist, political analyst, former Dean of the U.P. College of Mass Communications and BusinessWorld columnist, raised a few hackles with his statements made in a recent interview with ABS-CBN, to the effect that:
Journalists should consciously go into blogging to set examples.
The Politics of Labor Relations
Each year, as Labor Day approaches, Malacanang tries to put together some kind of “package”, comprised of monetary and non-monetary benefits (but usually non-monetary) for the minimum wage earner as a sop to the ordinary worker and a political concession to appease the labor unions. This is so GMA could say come May [...]
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