Media must do more than just opposing this bill—but get to the crux of what this bill is all about—exploiting a weakness of the media establishment’s practice of its craft. That begins with eliminating the very weakness that is being exploited—journalists’ failure to observe the right of reply through sheer stupidity, sloppiness, apathy and/or even corruption.

First Of all I Thank Manolo Quezon for recognizing my efforts on breaking the charter change story. Secondly, i’d like to thank everyone who left their comments and suggestions, violent objections and tirades in my previous entries. To be plainly honest, I deliberately did what i did in those posts to drive home a point—a [...]

so while the senate busies itself with bolante, the president’s staff was busy trying to arrange a meeting or phone call between gma and barack obama. after all—she was already conveniently in the area of chicago, obama’s home district in the US senate.