Severe storm warnings are up over metropolitan Manila as I write this, with the first of this year’s big typhoons dumping rains, triggering power outages and shutting down commuter train services. These just as President Arroyo is en route to the United States to meet America’s outgoing, and presumptive incoming leaders (whoever among them wins)ahead [...]
Of Political Poison Texts and Criminal Aliases
June 21, 2008 By 5 Comments
The news media in Metro Manila has been in a celebratory mood, albeit subdued, after the release from captivity several days ago of respected broadcast journalist Ces Drilon who, to her credit, has profusely thanked all who helped in ending her ordeal at the hands of that kidnap-for-ransom gang in Sulu. Now on going is [...]
Negotiators Bared
June 20, 2008 By 2 Comments
Loren Legarda, the presidentiable, is in deep s..h..i..t.
Now that PNP Chief Avelino Razon Jr. revealed that money changed hands for the release of ABS-CBN Anchor Ces Drilon, Loren has a lot of explaining to do. Remember that she’s the one who said that Ces was released “unconditionally”. Now, Madame Senator, what can you say about this?
HYPOCRITES GALORE
June 20, 2008 By 2 Comments
Loren Legarda, The Negotiator, And Why She is So Wrong
June 19, 2008 By 47 Comments
But if we look at it from the point of view of the whole aspect of government policy towards the non-payment of ransom. She is zero for eight. And if she really was successful in her endeavors, then truly there should never have been kidnapping after her first “success”. Give us all a friggin break, Madam Senator, this is not for the good of the people, for if it were, she would just have sat on the sidelines.
Gloria’s Davao Trip and Ces Drilon’s release
June 19, 2008 By 5 Comments
Pardon my suspicious mind, but I noticed one thing about Ces release that seemed uncanny. Remember the kidnappers giving a Tuesday 12 noon deadline and abruptly deciding to make it indefinite? Then, within a few hours, the PNP chief Avelino Razon announced that Ces will be released a few hours after that?
Drilon Abduction Aftermath: The Isnajis, Heroes or Suspects?
June 18, 2008 By 3 Comments
Dramatic Ending of Ces Drilon Kidnapping
June 17, 2008 By 6 Comments
ATTACK
June 17, 2008 By 4 Comments
Did Ces Drilon “deserve” to be kidnapped?
As an observer of the media, I think Ms. Drilon is in a very unenviable position. Save for her tainted public image following the Manila Peninsula siege, she represents one-half of an elitist corporatist media. But let me make one thing perfectly clear at this point: I am not a journalist. I’m just a blogger, a writer, a “commentator,” and for all intents and purposes an “usisero.”
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