Comments on: Media Confidential http://filipinovoices.com/media-confidential Powered By A Collective Voice Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Marocharim http://filipinovoices.com/media-confidential/comment-page-1#comment-2363 Marocharim Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:03:57 +0000 http://www.filipinovoices.com/?p=303#comment-2363 benign0: i wrote that piece years ago. while i wouldn't change it one bit, even developed countries with a "mature" news media have an equivalent to it. it's called fox news channel. benign0:

i wrote that piece years ago. while i wouldn’t change it one bit, even developed countries with a “mature” news media have an equivalent to it.

it’s called fox news channel.

]]> By: The Jester-in-Exile http://filipinovoices.com/media-confidential/comment-page-1#comment-2336 The Jester-in-Exile Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:46:46 +0000 http://www.filipinovoices.com/?p=303#comment-2336 brilliant, marocharim. brilliant, marocharim.

]]> By: benign0 http://filipinovoices.com/media-confidential/comment-page-1#comment-2331 benign0 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:33:32 +0000 http://www.filipinovoices.com/?p=303#comment-2331 What happened to Pinoy-style journalism reflects a familiar cycle. Just like Pinoys who won back their right to elect their leaders then proceeded to turn their elections into circuses, so too did Pinoys win back their freedom of expression then proceeded to turn it into a mere perversion of its honourable mandate and the intellectual wasteland that it is today. I wrote back in December of 2007 in a snippet I titled "<a href="http://www.getrealphilippines.com/admin/wnarch2007.html" rel="nofollow">Essentially moronic</a>": <blockquote>The Philippine media makes billions harvesting entertainment value out of what are essentially trivial spectacles. Yet over the years it managed to engineer a martyr-like image for itself that Filipinos all but lap up to this day. It's high time Filipinos re-think this guardian-of-freedom pedestal that we have placed the Media upon. Gone are the days when the Philippine Press held a monopoly over "credible" representation of the "voice of the people". Institutions are now in place to do just that. All Filipinos need is to grow the brains required to use them properly.</blockquote> The sheer grotesqueness of ABS-CBN's <i>Bandila</i> news program reflects the society it serves. It is the jeepney of news programs -- a testament to the perverted concept of ingenuity of our society. What happened to Pinoy-style journalism reflects a familiar cycle. Just like Pinoys who won back their right to elect their leaders then proceeded to turn their elections into circuses, so too did Pinoys win back their freedom of expression then proceeded to turn it into a mere perversion of its honourable mandate and the intellectual wasteland that it is today.

I wrote back in December of 2007 in a snippet I titled “Essentially moronic“:

The Philippine media makes billions harvesting entertainment value out of what are essentially trivial spectacles. Yet over the years it managed to engineer a martyr-like image for itself that Filipinos all but lap up to this day. It’s high time Filipinos re-think this guardian-of-freedom pedestal that we have placed the Media upon. Gone are the days when the Philippine Press held a monopoly over “credible” representation of the “voice of the people”. Institutions are now in place to do just that. All Filipinos need is to grow the brains required to use them properly.

The sheer grotesqueness of ABS-CBN’s Bandila news program reflects the society it serves. It is the jeepney of news programs — a testament to the perverted concept of ingenuity of our society.

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