Now on its 26th year in the Philippines — March 29, 2019 marked the 25th year since the country was “wired” into it — the global communication network known as the Internet has been rightly hailed as another milestone in providing the perennial human need for information. Not only has it made billions of bites…
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The ignorance that kills
Within months of his coming to power in 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte’s profanities, tirades, threats, outrageous remarks about women, human rights, heads of foreign states, and what he was actually doing, had called the attention of international media — in Japan, the United States and Europe — to what was happening in the Philippines. As…
Anatomy of the ‘Tagum death squad’, a Human Rights Watch report
“The Philippines is in ‘a death squad denial.’ – Human Rights Watch
The Rise and Rise of Rodrigo Duterte
To those who fear him, Duterte is “the punisher,” as Time magazine described him three years ago. To those who respect him, he is the man who keeps the peace. To his political adversaries, he plays dirty. To others whose lives he touched through his generosity, he has a heart of gold. To keen political…
Why the Media Love ‘Digong’
He is comfortable around journalists, who are, in turn, easily fascinated by him. By Germelina Lacorte Davaotoday.com Posted by Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY — Just by looking at how media people swarm City Hall every time he is around, he is probably the city’s most covered mayor. He attracts journalists without even trying, says Jon Joaquin,…