mga nakakapaginit na billbaords:

yung kay nicole ng bench
yung kay gwen garci ng air force 1
kaso hinde ko na namkita

I think the ads in GA and BSA Twin Towers are the largest in the Metro :)

The developer of those towers should be voted as Smartest Entrepreneur of the year!.. :)
... umm I guess not for BSA.

The largest billboard in Metro Manila - Guadalupe (coke ad)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3592/3369224774_1664c869ee_b.jpg
flickr trishhhh

^^ yeah, that ad in BSA is the largest but I'm talking of the largest billboard :)

some billboards have complied with MMDA Rules and Regulations on Billboards and reduced the size like the one in Balintawak who did it the past weeks, you can see here the two lines of metal stand on the lower left (previous width), partly hidden by the tree:)
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/6343/img1123m.jpg (http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img1123m.jpg):banana:

sexy na naman ditoooo...:lol:
angelica, ann...
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8274/img1222g.jpg (http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img1222g.jpg):banana:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/04/15/09/ted-failons-wife-fighting-her-life

ABS-CBN TV Patrol news anchor Ted Failon's wife was brought to the hospital Wednesday and is fighting for her life, according to ABS-CBN corporate communications head Bong Osorio.

"We appeal to everyone to please respect the privacy of Ted Failon and his family," Osorio said. "His wife is fighting for her life."

Mr. Failon has requested in the meantime that no details of the incident which happened Wednesday in the family home in Quezon City be reported.

pero kung sa iba nangyari puputaktihin ng media para makakuha ng info "because the public has the right to know"

naalala ko tuloy ang article na ito

ON FRIDAY we read the shocking news that a local policeman had shot his wife and then turned the gun on himself, all in front of the couple's 10-year-old daughter.

Even more shocking was ABS-CBN's early evening news coverage of the event. There were the still warm bodies, blood spattered everywhere, and a reporter shoving a microphone into the face of a 10-year-old girl, interrogating a kid who must have been scared out of her wits.

Has there been a peep of protest from Davao's child welfare groups? No sir. Has there been a single line of negative opinion from our supposedly child-friendly newspapers? No sir. If it's got media mileage bring it on. Hypocrites, the lot of you.

@Waway[625]

I guess its time to rely the news more on SSC and your friend's blogs. :D

Good thing is I don't watch TV for local channels.

naiirita lang talaga ako sa media natin :lol:

@Waway[625]

I guess its time to rely the news more on SSC and your friend's blogs. :D

Good thing is I don't watch TV for local channels.

For irritating news, turn on your TV and tune in to GMA or ABS-CBN

For too good to be true news, listen to our politicians.

Para sa katotohanang walang pinapanigan, SSC na po tayo....Hehehehehe

Media will always go for something controversial, but not necessarily the truth. The fact that an issue is controversial will make it more appealing to them. Maybe they thought they could perpetually persuade the people to listen to their stories and believe it wholeheartedly.

Sometimes I don't want to listen to the news because it's not the objective type of news that I have always wanted. They will always add something to it to the extent that it will not be the objective type of news that we should be getting.

Media will always go for something controversial, but not necessarily the truth. The fact that an issue is controversial will make it more appealing to them. Maybe they thought they could perpetually persuade the people to listen to their stories and believe it wholeheartedly.

Sometimes I don't want to listen to the news because it's not the objective type of news that I have always wanted. They will always add something to it to the extent that it will not be the objective type of news that we should be getting.

Then I call the media an entertainment. And I am not entertained.

kanina puro si ted failon ang napapanood ko sa tv. nakikita ko parang talagang humahanap ng butas ang mga otoridad para managot tlga si ted sa asawa nyang nabaril o binaril ang sarili. yun ang sa tingin ko...feel ko masyadong pinalaki tong issue..

Failon ordered placed under immigration watch list
04/16/2009 | 06:19 PM
MANILA, Philippines - News anchor Ted Failon was ordered placed under the Bureau of Immigration's watch list so that he could be deterred from leaving the country amid the on-going investigation into the shooting that seriously wounded Failon's wife, Trinidad Etong.

The order came from Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez, a radio station reported on Thursday. The report said Gonzalez made the order after the police said Failon could be one of the possible suspects in the incident.

Immigration spokesman lawyer Floro Balato confirmed to GMANew.TV that the bureau had already received a copy of the Department of Justice [DOJ] order at 12:17 p.m., which was sent through facsimile machine.

“The DOJ order will be implemented by the BI within the day," Balato said.

Once the order is implemented, the bureau will be required to inform the DOJ if Failon has any intention to leave the country.

“We have to inform the Justice secretary if there would be any intended departure," Balato said, adding that the DOJ would still be the one deciding on whether Failon would be allowed to leave the country.

Investigators from the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) rushed to Failon’s residence in Tierra Pura Homes in Quezon City after being informed that the broadcaster’s wife had just been rushed to a hospital after sustaining a gunshot wound in her head.

Aside from Failon, other members of his household including his driver Glenn Ponan, and three house maids Carlota Morbos, Wilfreda Bullecer and Pacifico Apacible are all being considered as suspects in the shooting incident.

Obstruction of justice charges could be filed against the driver and the housemaids for allegedly tampering with supposed police evidence, including cleaning up blood stains in the bathroom and in the vehicle used to bring Trinidad to the hospital.

Also, the guns and empty shells found in the bathroom had apparently been removed from their original position by the housemaids. - Mark Merueñas, GMANews.TV

^The Police sucks.

V1UjIZSXNmI

@Waway[625]

I guess its time to rely the news more on SSC and your friend's blogs. :D

Good thing is I don't watch TV for local channels.

I couldn't agree more with the fact that relying on blogs/ssc since stuff being presented are taken into consideration.

^The Police sucks.

They do!

Condolence to the family, but that video shows the arresting team on how disrespectful they are.

And it's really a good thing that the media were there and capture all of these, papano pa pagkakatiwalaan ang mga pulis na dapat ay pangalagaan nila ang mamamayan. There are lapses on both sides, maybe Failon was trying to cover something up, but being charge and arrested for abstruction of justice for an alleged suicide is not right. ( I think).
I know this is not funny, but I think I heard from one of the officials that the body and other evidences should not be removed from the bathroom until the police can have an initial investigation. My gosh! --- she was found still bleeding and some sign of life, kaya dinala sa hospital. And the cleanup of the house could be a mental lapse on the family's part but since they assumed that was a suicide attempt, it is alright to clean the place.

Here's an interview of the sister of Ted's wife.

c8FUPk0twg8


Btw, the police hasn't answered this question:

Did the wife tested positive of a paraffin test?

Also, the wound was in the left temple of the wife's head, right? Check if the wife is left-handed or not.

(UPDATE) from Philippine Star
Failon's wife negative for gunpowder residue -- QCPD
Updated April 17, 2009 07:56 AM

MANILA, Philippines -- The late wife of broadcast journalist Ted Failon was tested negative for gunpowder residue, a radio report said today.

Trinidad Etong, 45, was subjected to a paraffin test by the Quezon City Police District forensics team right after passing away last night at the New Era General Hospital.

Etong died from a gunshot wound in the head.

The report said police investigators who autopsied the body also found out that the point of entry of the bullet was the right temple of the victim and went through the other side. Etong was said to be left- handed.

Failon, Mario Teodoro Failon Etong in real life, claimed he found his wife sprawled and bloodied inside the comfort room of their home on 27 General Aquino street, Tierra Pura Subdivision in Tandang Sora, Quezon City on Wednesday.

^^ It's getting complicated now. I need to watch this in GMA tv, TFC doesn't cover as much about this issue. I hope the truth will come out and the police should realize that they have other things to do.

^ What other things to do? Isn't it part of what they should do? Investigate the matter thoroughly and not just dismiss it as suicide?

When a person is harmed or dies of suspicious circumstances, the matter should be investigated.

...
And it's really a good thing that the media were there and capture all of these, papano pa pagkakatiwalaan ang mga pulis na dapat ay pangalagaan nila ang mamamayan. There are lapses on both sides, maybe Failon was trying to cover something up, but being charge and arrested for abstruction of justice for an alleged suicide is not right. ( I think).


obstruction of justice mate. :)

^ What other things to do? Isn't it part of what they should do? Investigate the matter thoroughly and not just dismiss it as suicide?

When a person is harmed or dies of suspicious circumstances, the matter should be investigated.

Amen. Being tested negative to gun powder [dead wife] the case will only get more interesting as well as the need for thorough and precise investigation.

^ What other things to do? Isn't it part of what they should do? Investigate the matter thoroughly and not just dismiss it as suicide?

When a person is harmed or dies of suspicious circumstances, the matter should be investigated.

^^ Agree. Although there are some lapses, the police force should remain firm on the investigation process. In investigating such cases, the police should not be accommodating and just readily believe all the statements. They should have doubting minds to ferret out the truth and to be able to pinpoint inconsistencies. That way, it will aide them in ultimately arriving at the most plausible scenario of the incident for the sake of the deceased.

^ What other things to do? Isn't it part of what they should do? Investigate the matter thoroughly and not just dismiss it as suicide?

When a person is harmed or dies of suspicious circumstances, the matter should be investigated.

Lahat ng agencies nakisawsaw na kasi, I know it's a big deal for a famous person involved in such an issue, pero naman, from Justice secretary to immigration wanted to be on camera to prove a point.
In case you missed some video on GMA tv website, during the paraffin test on Ted Failon, yung ibang pulis nagpapakuha ng picture sa likod niya.

obstruction of justice mate. :)

Yeah, I just mispelled the word, dapat nga din abstraction, since maraming press release ang mga pulis sa mga sinabi ng mga kasangbahay na iba iba.. :lol:, at para namang criminal na kaagad lahat na hinuli duon sa video.

habang tumatagal, lalo akong naiinis sa mga pulis na nainvolve dun (lalo na dun sa mga humuli sa hipag at mga kapatid ng wife ni ted)..sarap gulpihin! overkill masyado! sana di lang sibakin sa imbestigasyon..sibakin na tlaga!

obstruction of justice???? leche!!! sinungaling pala yang paraffin test na yan eh! 1960's pa daw itinigil ang paggamit nyang procedure..grabe.

Hindi at hindi na talaga makukuha nang mga pulis natin ang respeto nang sambayanan...Akala mo kung sino maka-asta.

Buti sana kung sila na lang ang ipadala doon sa giyera between terrorist group and the arm forces...At least kung matiklo man sila doon, ok na rin.

Hitting two birds in one stone... :)

Mabuti pa yong mga sundalo, at totoong ginagampanan yong tungkulin nila.

obstruction of justice???? leche!!! sinungaling pala yang paraffin test na yan eh! 1960's pa daw itinigil ang paggamit nyang procedure..grabe.

Frankly, I can't believe that PNP still uses paraffin test for looking for gunshot primer residue until today.

Here's the link that will explain why we cannot rely on firearms forensics alone. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18825274.300

The more the police give interviews about that incident, parang lalo silang nahuhulog sa balon. those arresting cops were relieved, tapos banat pa ng isang official, the police did the right thing daw! ..

I need to give this issue a rest and wait for the further outcome of the investigation ........



of the senate --- :lol:








sorry to laugh out loud, but condolence to the family.

Maybe the NBI should take over the investigation.

so if any of you are planning to kill your spouse ,remember you will always be the no. one suspect.

with all the mess...
ABSCBN which probalbly aires failon side,, whereas NBN to the PNP side.. while GMA seems to have another story,
one channels views dosent match the other channels views.. and with the news getting sympathized.
.. where to listen?..
its getting more like a telenovela series..heheh

one thing for sure is that both sides had lapses.

OA and stup!d pol!ce!

Why cant they do those th!ngs to rebels terro!st cr!m1nals and corrupt off!c!als!

Lagot s!la pag nagbweta na Fa!lon...

The police is at fault here. You don't file an obstruction of justice case to someone who doesn't have the criminal intent to cover up a crime.

And another mistake of the police are the warrantless arrests. All the prerequisites before a warrantless arrest can be justified, were not there. 1. inflagrante delicto, 2. hot pursuit. (nakalimutan ko kung merong iba, basta wala! 1st year ko pa to lecture eh). :lol:

The police is at fault here. You don't file an obstruction of justice case to someone who doesn't have the criminal intent to cover up a crime.

And another mistake of the police are the warrantless arrests. All the prerequisites before a warrantless arrest can be justified, were not there. 1. inflagrante delicto, 2. hot pursuit. (nakalimutan ko kung merong iba, basta wala! 1st year ko pa to lecture eh). :lol:

yung isa kung yung iaaresto ay escapee from final judgement or detention.

^^ BTW guys, quiz. If the sister refused to have her fingers paraffin tested and the police insisted, would that be testimonial compulsion?

If it tested positive, will that be admissible in evidence? Or will that be "fruit of the poisonous tree"?

(These are all hypotheticals.)

Bopols yung mga pul!s!!:bash::bash:
Tapos S! Raul (o) Gonzales nangts!sms pa. ala boy abunda!!

^^ BTW guys, quiz. If the sister refused to have her fingers paraffin tested and the police insisted, would that be testimonial compulsion?

If it tested positive, will that be admissible in evidence? Or will that be "fruit of the poisonous tree"?

(These are all hypotheticals.)

nice question...

The police is at fault here. You don't file an obstruction of justice case to someone who doesn't have the criminal intent to cover up a crime.

And another mistake of the police are the warrantless arrests. All the prerequisites before a warrantless arrest can be justified, were not there. 1. inflagrante delicto, 2. hot pursuit. (nakalimutan ko kung merong iba, basta wala! 1st year ko pa to lecture eh). :lol:

a very interesting observation by many lawyers was the police (in many parts of the country) penchant of filing obstruction of justice cases against people the police view as "asking too much questions." its a common tactic employed during martial law when human rights lawyers questioned warrantless arrests of activists.

^^ justice system in the country is simply unjust! :bash:

Buti nga na-suspend yung mga QCPD pulis.

OA na bobo pa kasi.

Si injustice secretary tsismoso naman.

with all the mess...
ABSCBN which probalbly aires failon side,, whereas NBN to the PNP side.. while GMA seems to have another story,
one channels views dosent match the other channels views.. and with the news getting sympathized.
.. where to listen?..
its getting more like a telenovela series..heheh

one thing for sure is that both sides had lapses.

That's why media becomes entertainment. And I am not even entertained at the first place.

ayan nadale tuloy yung QCPD, suspended pa mga pulis.

Hindi kasi ginamit utak e.

nakatingin pa media.

Buti nga nandun media e.

Kung ako yun gaganunin at mainpluwensya ako hindi lang suspension ang ibibigay ko sa mga pulis kundi termination.

Parang hindi sila namamatayan ng kamag-anak.

pero what if namatay yung asawa ni ted dahil na stress sya sa mga pulis,

ewb ko ba bakit na headlines ito, ang dami dami naman nag suisuicide na pinoy na hinde na heheadlines, pero what if kug yung mga pulis ang dahilan sa pagkamatay nya...

pero what if namatay yung asawa ni ted dahil na stress sya sa mga pulis,

ewb ko ba bakit na headlines ito, ang dami dami naman nag suisuicide na pinoy na hinde na heheadlines, pero what if kug yung mga pulis ang dahilan sa pagkamatay nya...


palagay ko.

sabi nung iba half-cnscious pa rin daw ang mga kaso ng kay trina kahit nakaratay sa hospital bed.

na bad trip siguro dahil hindi naramdaman yung presence ng mga kapatid sa tabi nya nung naghihingalo na.

Nag-ok na kasi vital signs bilang namatay.

Engots kasi mga pulis.

Obstruction of justice kukwelyuhan mo ay sisigawan yung kaanak na nagpoprotesta sa mala-hitler na pagdakip sa iyo?:bash::bash::bash:

pero what if namatay yung asawa ni ted dahil na stress sya sa mga pulis,

ewb ko ba bakit na headlines ito, ang dami dami naman nag suisuicide na pinoy na hinde na heheadlines, pero what if kug yung mga pulis ang dahilan sa pagkamatay nya...

Kaya dapat wag nang icover yan dahil personal business na yan ng pamilya nya. Its a family affair that nobody has a business with.

so if any of you are planning to kill your spouse ,remember you will always be the no. one suspect.

Like Ted Failon case, actually dapat nga kasuhan na sya dahil maraming mga paglabag before the investigation. Ika nga malinis ang pagka gawa ng krimen at hindi ako naniniwalang may suicide na nagaganap.

drove from alabang to fort last night around 1opm..SO DARK nowadays without the billboard lights.....and worse, so hard driving now with on coming cars driving with their high beam lights to compensate.....saving the earth from fossil use never meant turning off billboard lights...........no other country in the world has turned off their street lights...we turned off billboard lights BY LAW but they are the only source of illumination for our roads since our individual cities only install lamps but never turn them on

Like Ted Failon case, actually dapat nga kasuhan na sya dahil maraming mga paglabag before the investigation. Ika nga malinis ang pagka gawa ng krimen at hindi ako naniniwalang may suicide na nagaganap.

you can't just file a case with an absence of evidence. The experts have already said they're not yet even certain if a crime has been committed. Every passing day has only been showing the plausibility that it is only a suicide.

^^ If it was a suicide, how come there are no powder burns in the hands of the deceased? Who pulled the trigger? If it was a suicide, did she wear or use some sort of hand protection? If one is going to commit suicide, why would that person have to do that? That's a bit implausible.

The paraffin-test is inconclusive only as to whether one actually fired the gun or was just contaminated by it, but not as to the absence of gun powder residue.

drove from alabang to fort last night around 1opm..SO DARK nowadays without the billboard lights.....and worse, so hard driving now with on coming cars driving with their high beam lights to compensate.....saving the earth from fossil use never meant turning off billboard lights...........no other country in the world has turned off their street lights...we turned off billboard lights BY LAW but they are the only source of illumination for our roads since our individual cities only install lamps but never turn them on

Where did you pass? Alabang to the Fort via C5 is okay, well lit.

The sexy billboards in metropolis:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3012/2895373282_aaffeebe83.jpg?v=0
flickr vicdv888

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3433/3307822029_c282a6fcd7.jpg
flickr martinarcher

my own shots along Pasig flyover, C5
http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd350/RonnieR_2008/March302009002.jpg

http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd350/RonnieR_2008/March302009001.jpg

These are way too distracting for motorists. It's too permissive also.

Baka kasi inugasan ang kamay sa ospital kay ala ng powder burns.

Anyway, let's wait for the findings of the expert.

The point is the police showed its incompetence again.

Sikat kasi yung involve.

Where did you pass? Alabang to the Fort via C5 is okay, well lit.

YUP C5 is great..but the SLEX from the C5/Slex junction to Alabang, pitch black after 930pm because of the billboard lights being turned off.

My point is other countries do not turn off street lights during evenings. So why put a curfew on billboard lighting when they are ones precisely lighting our streets, paying for the electricity themselves and we benefit since our own cities do not provide this service.

interesting... hmmm..i'll just look at it in a rational sense.

Ted
-not reporting the incident immediately
-alleged non cooperation(with QCPD)
-alleged cleanup of crime scene(bathroom, bedroom, car)
-delays in paraffin testing
-negative results of paraffin test on all family members
-refusal in surrendering trina's Cellphone
-delays in acquiring trina's Clothes


Police
the harsh arrest
the warrantless arrest
alleged non reading of the "Miranda warning" during the arrest
anything to add?:lol:

interesting... hmmm..i'll just look at it in a rational sense.

Ted
-not reporting the incident immediately
-alleged non cooperation(with QCPD)
-alleged cleanup of crime scene(bathroom, bedroom, car)
-delays in paraffin testing
-negative results of paraffin test on all family members
-refusal in surrendering trina's Cellphone
-delays in acquiring trina's Clothes


Police
the harsh arrest
the warrantless arrest
alleged non reading of the "Miranda warning" during the arrest
anything to add?:lol:

There are clear infractions on both sides. The actions of the family is quite reasonable even if they have the intention of hiding the truth.
Namatayan sila and they are in a state of shock and grief.

About the actions of the arresting PNP officers, they really did the unthinkable (although they said that's their SOP ) for professionals to do their jobs.
But there must be someone who ordered that arrest in a very untimely manner. It could be a judge or a higher official.

In defense of Sup. Franklin Mabanag, he used to be a soft spoken person, kahit pili-pilipit mag ingles and he really care for everyone. He was a good cop..until ________ (just fill in the blanks.) ganyan yung sinabi ng barkada ko about him. :lol:
Siya yung nagbigay ng P2,000 sa isang swindler na Fil-Am daw na naholdaup at kelangan maka uwi sa Baguio, what a gutsy guy to make fun with the cops. :bash:

Lighted displays allowed 2-hour extension
By Joel E. Zurbano President Arroyo has granted the appeal of advertisers to allow commercial displays with neon and high-wattage lights along roads and highways to switch-off at 11 p.m. instead of 9 p.m. as earlier ordered.

The two-hour extension was embodied in Executive Order 774, mandating the Department of Public Works and Highways as the lead agency on the Task Group on Outdoor and Rooftop Structures.

Public Works Undersecretary Rafael Yabut, overall chief of the Task Force Baklas Billboard, said the concession was based on public welfare as cited by the advertising outfits.

“Well, it is part of their position paper requesting for reconsideration [from the 9 p.m. deadline] since their primary reason is safety of the general public [and] the billboards provide light at night, especially those near university areas, bus terminals... It is actually a big help if these areas are lighted,” he said.

Yabut said during their recent meeting with representatives from Manila Electric Co., Metro Manila Development Authority and the Department of Energy, the issue was raised on changing lights to more nature-friendly models which may also reduce carbon emissions.

He said a conmputation has been drawn up to compute the carbon footprint and its equivalent fee for those opting to keep lights beyond 11 p.m.

Executive director Emmanuel Cuntapay, of the National Building Code Development Office, said the President authorized the extension during her birthday celebration in Pampanga.

“It is also out of moral concerns to save Mother Earth and at the same time also for the advertising industry,” Cuntapay said, noting that too early a switchoff may disrupt the advertising business and lead to loss of jobs in the industry.

“The order was effective immediately when the President gave it on her birthday in Lubao. We do not need to publish this, but we just need to furnish copies of the circular and they [advertisers] have assured us of their compliance.”

Based on the circular, all lighted displays along roads and highways are allowed to switch on from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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Live kaninang umaga sa NBN Channel 4 ang MOA sa pagitan ng PSE-Tektite(Mr.Francis Lim) at NBN4(Mr.Jose Isabelo), ipinakita rin ang ceremonial ringing of bell.

Sana ay maging tulay itong media sa bansa sa pagkakaroon ng subject ang mga High School at College students tungkol sa capital markets at economic research.

kelan kaya babalik si ted sa tv patrol, it's as exciting as jorndan playing again after retiring

Cheche Lazaro eludes arrest, posts bail for wiretapping case (http://http://www.gmanews.tv/story/160409/Cheche-Lazaro-eludes-arrest-posts-bail-for-wiretapping-case)
05/08/2009 | 11:17 AM


BAILING OUT. Multi-awarded broadcast journalist Cheche Lazaro posts bail to escape arrest for wiretapping.MANILA, Philippines - Broadcast journalist Cecilia ‘Cheche’ Lazaro will post a P12,500 bail Friday morning to avoid arrest stemming from a wiretapping case filed against her in 2008.

Lazaro was accused by Government Service Insurance System Vice President Ella E. Valencerina of violating the anti-wiretapping law after airing parts of their phone conversation on her TV program “Probe".

The veteran journalist will post bail at the Pasay Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 47 after the court issued a warrant for her arrest on Thursday. In a statement, Lazaro bemoaned the case lodged against her by Valencerina.

"It is mind-boggling why I am being singled out for prosecution for following the tenets of responsible journalism," Lazaro said.

The Probe episode entitled, "Perwisyong Benepisyo" that was aired over ABS-CBN last Nov. 12, showed a video of Lazaro talking with Valencerina on the phone.

Valencerina, who also heads GSIS’ Public Relations and Communications Office, said Lazaro aired their conversation without her consent, and that the airing violated Republic Act 4200 or the Anti-Wiretapping Act.

Lazaro has maintained that she asked Velencerina’s permission prior to the interview and stressed that she did not commit ethical violations in journalism.

"If raising the concerns of underpaid public school teachers deprived of their benefits by a publicly accountable government institution and giving my accuser the airtime to explain her boss' side of the story are now considered crimes under our laws, then I plead guilty," Lazaro said.

According to Court records, Probe decided to produce a feature or episode on the Premium-Based Policy in November 2008, implemented by the GSIS.

Under this policy, entitlement on the GSIS is based on the actual premium payments made instead of the length of service of the government employee concerned.

Teachers who were members of the GSIS complained that the policy "had unfairly deprived them of the benefits that they were entitled to, through no fault of their own as they had no control over the regularity of their premium payments."

This was because such payments were not made by them directly but by the Department of Education, through deductions from their monthly salaries, the court record added.

Meanwhile, Lazaro said the case against her is just a “small price to pay" for bringing the issue out in the open.

“Probe will not be intimidated into submission. I just wish my accuser will play fair and hire private lawyers instead of using government lawyers (from the GSIS), whose salaries are incidentally paid for by, among others, the teachers shortchanged by the questionable policy of the GSIS and private citizens like me who pay taxes.," she said. - Mark Joseph Ubalde, GMANews.TV

GSIS VP hit for 'press intimidation' (http://http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/05/08/09/gsis-vp-hit-press-intimidation)
abs-cbnNEWS.com | 05/08/2009 12:02 PM


A warrant of arrest was issued Friday morning for journalist Cheche Lazaro for alleged wiretapping, a case which the veteran broadcaster said was a way of intimidating the press.

According to Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) vice president Ella Valencerina, Lazaro wiretapped their phone conversation in November 2008 and aired portions of it on ABS-CBN’s “Probe” without her consent.

Lazaro said she and her lawyers will be posting a P12,500 bail this afternoon at the Pasay City Hall of Justice.

The anchor of ANC’s “Media in Focus” will file bail at the building's room 205, branch 47, the sala of Judge Josephine Advento Vito Cruz.

“It is mind-boggling why I am being singled out for prosecution for doing my job as a responsible journalist [or for following the tenets of responsible journalism],” said Lazaro in a Probe statement.

“If raising the concerns of underpaid public school teachers deprived of their benefits by a publicly-accountable government institution and giving my accuser the airtime to explain her boss's side of the story are now considered crimes under our laws, then I plead guilty,” she added.

Lazaro explained on “Mornings @ ANC” that the Probe story pertains to the “retirement fund of teachers who have been working in the public school system for most of their life and who filed for retirement. And the case here is that these teachers did not get their full retirement benefits.”

“A teacher that we interviewed worked for a full 35 years but only got 32 years in benefits,” she noted.

“We thought that this is a public interest issue that needs to be addressed, that needs to be answered by a publicly-accountable government institution like the GSIS. And instead of focusing on the story of these teachers, they decided to focus on this wiretapping case,” said Lazaro.

Intimidation of the press?

She also related that she submitted a counter-affidavit stating that the phone interview, spanning close to 10 minutes, was taped. “Valencerina knew about this because I told her and we have tapes to prove that.”

She reasoned that Valencerina was “aware that the conversation was being taped and the portions that we issued on the episode that we presented on ABS-CBN were exactly the words that she used in a letter which she wrote us.”

Lazaro is the only one facing the wiretapping case at the moment. “They have made it a point to singularly point me out as the person who wiretapped the whole conversation that they alleged was wiretapping. That is not true,” she said.

“I think this is intimidation of the press. They are trying to send a message to the press and using me as a sample for this kind of a message,” she noted.

Lazaro, meantime, also mentioned in her statement, “This is a small price to pay for bringing a perfectly legitimate public interest issue out in the open.”

She continued, “I just wish my accuser(s) will play fair and hire private lawyers instead of using government lawyers (from the GSIS), whose salaries are incidentally paid for by, among others, the teachers shortchanged by the questionable policy of the GSIS and private citizens like me who pay taxes.”

“In the last 22 years, Probe has carved a niche in the industry and won recognition here and abroad for consistently adhering to time-honored journalistic values of accuracy, fairness and objectivity. My team and I have no plans of changing the way we work just to accommodate the personal agenda of people in power,” she concluded.

as of 05/08/2009 12:05 PM

^^So unethical of Cheche Lazaro.

The arrest of Cheche Lazaro was indeed shocking. The conversation alleged to have been wiretapped is material and that it involved public interest. However, we cannot disregard any possible lapses on the part of Lazaro and her team in releasing the taped interview. We must remember, responsible journalism is not practiced much by Philippine media. There are two sides in this incident. Both of them deserves to be heard.

billboards are not regulated



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The arrest of Cheche Lazaro was indeed shocking. The conversation alleged to have been wiretapped is material and that it involved public interest. However, we cannot disregard any possible lapses on the part of Lazaro and her team in releasing the taped interview. We must remember, responsible journalism is not practiced much by Philippine media. There are two sides in this incident. Both of them deserves to be heard.

True. Both of them deserves to be heard in the proper forum.

knowing tayo lang ang catholic nation sa asia

^^ East Timor also has a large Catholic populace diba?

Isa yan sa mga factor kung bakit mataas ang rape case sa pinas. isa din yan sa dahilan kung bakit maraming manyak at rapist at sala tibo at bading. kasi alntad lahat.:ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno:

Isa yan sa mga factor kung bakit mataas ang rape case sa pinas. isa din yan sa dahilan kung bakit maraming manyak at rapist at sala tibo at bading. kasi alntad lahat.:ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno:
I think you went too far. :D you mean homosexuality can also be caused by these billboards? hehe.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1244/876752659_7d6cb0b091.jpg

^^ that place is s0o0o0o0o0 familiar!! :D

^^^ :) masih ingat?

here's another one....sexy billboard in Manila
http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd350/RonnieR_2008/projects001-1-1.jpg

Isa yan sa mga factor kung bakit mataas ang rape case sa pinas. isa din yan sa dahilan kung bakit maraming manyak at rapist at sala tibo at bading. kasi alntad lahat.:ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno:

that's a very
ignorant statement

:bash:

merun bang mag NAKAKALIBOG na billoards sa E TImor?

i concur na is yan s adahilan kung bakit madami mga sex crines sa atin,

Isa yan sa mga factor kung bakit mataas ang rape case sa pinas. isa din yan sa dahilan kung bakit maraming manyak at rapist at sala tibo at bading. kasi alntad lahat.:ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno:Oo nga, kaya marami rin sigurong bobong comments tulad nito ngayon. Naiwan sa billboard yung utak mo siguro.

Anyway, enough of these comments about billboards having this or that. We are here to discuss the pros and cons of having too much billboards in the country, or in the metro at least.

Yung mga pilosopo diyan na magsasabing ang mga sexy models ay nakaka-sanhi ng disgrasya ay tama naman. Yun nga lang, kailangan pa ba nating maglagay ng mga napakala-laking mga pics dito ng mga yun. Puwede naman sigurong pag-usapan iyan ng walang pinapakitang pics, sa tingin ko lang. Oh ayan, nasa Tagalog na reply ko. Sana naman malinaw na sinabi ko, alam ko maraming mahina ulo dito. I'm good at empathizing with people (and obviously, I'm sarcastic).

^^^ :) masih ingat?


of coz! i had my breakfast at that KFC with Bernie and took a walk on that pedestrian bridge, looking at paranaque morning traffic....;)

'Hayden Cam' scandal – DPWH to tear down sexy billboards
05/29/2009 | 09:15 PM
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MANILA, Philippines — Emboldened by the outrage against the ‘Hayden Cam’ sex videos, officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Friday said they have began tearing down not just unsafe and illegal commercial displays along roads but also sexually suggestive advertisements.

Undersecretary Rafael Yabut said the campaign is in answer to the concerns expressed by parents about the increasing exposure of their children to sexually explicit pictures and videos on magazines, billboards, the Internet and television.

Parents are also worried that sex videos being posted on the Internet, including those of celebrity doctor Hayden Kho, have become easily available for viewing even by their young children.

“The sex video controversy seems to have brought out an explosion of indecency. We have decided to lessen this somehow by taking out those displayed in billboards and which millions of students are likely to see when they report to school on Monday," said Yabut, who is in charge of Task Force Baklas Billboard.

Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. ordered the resumption of the task force’s operations in anticipation of the onset of the rainy season and the opening of classes.

President Arroyo created the task force in 2006 after the onslaught of typhoon Milenyo, which saw the collapse of several billboards, resulting in the death and injury of motorists and pedestrians.

Yabut said some motorists have filed complaints with the task force against hazardous and distracting ads, .referring to “sexy billboards" that have proliferated in Metro Manila and outlying towns.

“These lewd billboards pose multiple dangers - they distract drivers who can't help but ogle at the sexy photos; they post dangers to motorists and pedestrians when they fall down; they inconvenience everyone when they collapse unto electric and telephone lines; and they cause traffic jams wherever they fall," Yabut said.

On Wednesday, the department resumed its operation against unsafe commercial displays after removing four billboards of a clothing company and a popular beverage company along the intersection of EDSA and North Avenue; and Katipunan, Quezon City. - Aie Balagtas See, GMANews.TV

Oo nga, kaya marami rin sigurong bobong comments tulad nito ngayon. Naiwan sa billboard yung utak mo siguro.

Anyway, enough of these comments about billboards having this or that. We are here to discuss the pros and cons of having too much billboards in the country, or in the metro at least.

Yung mga pilosopo diyan na magsasabing ang mga sexy models ay nakaka-sanhi ng disgrasya ay tama naman. Yun nga lang, kailangan pa ba nating maglagay ng mga napakala-laking mga pics dito ng mga yun. Puwede naman sigurong pag-usapan iyan ng walang pinapakitang pics, sa tingin ko lang. Oh ayan, nasa Tagalog na reply ko. Sana naman malinaw na sinabi ko, alam ko maraming mahina ulo dito. I'm good at empathizing with people (and obviously, I'm sarcastic).

Will if I am bobo. Then DPWH is also bobo. Sexy print adds spoiled moral of minors.

So, think about your comments. Shame on you!!!!!

DPWH targets "immoral" billboards (http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=472724&publicationSubCategoryId=68)

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Billboards featuring men and women in sexy and skimpy outfits will be dismantled in the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)’s ongoing project Operation Baklas Billboard.

DPWH Undersecretary for Visayas Rafael Yabut, concurrent head of the agency’s Operation Baklas Billboard Task Force, underscored the need to protect children from being exposed to sexually suggestive billboards, especially with the opening of classes on Monday.

Yabut said children would see these billboards whenever they travel from house to school.

“These lewd billboards pose multiple dangers – they distract drivers who can’t help but ogle at the sexy photos, they pose danger to motorists and pedestrians when they fall down, they cause inconvenience to everyone when they collapse onto electric and telephone lines and they cause traffic jams wherever they fall,” Yabut said.

Parents are concerned about children’s exposure to sexually explicit pictures not only on television, Internet, and magazines but also on billboards. This has prompted the agency to conduct a crackdown on such billboards.

“The Hayden Kho-Katrina Halili sex video controversy seems to have brought out an explosion of indecency. We have decided to lessen this somehow by taking down those billboards which millions of students are likely to see when they report to school on Monday,” Yabut said.

However, the DPWH does not intend to launch a moral crusade. Since they are engaged in the dismantling of illegal and unsafe billboards, they have decided to prioritize those that display lewd pictures or designs.

The DPWH resumed its operation against illegal billboards last Wednesday and has so far taken down two billboards along the intersection of EDSA and North Avenue, and in Katipunan, Quezon City.

Earlier, an official of the DPWH’s National Building Code Development Office (NBCDO) said that 90 percent of the 2,000 billboards along EDSA were found to have allegedly violated the provisions of the law, with many being constructed near electric and telephone lines.

President Arroyo ordered the dismantling of unsafe and illegal billboards nationwide in the aftermath of the destructive typhoon “Milenyo” in 2006, which saw the collapse of several billboards, resulting in the death and injury of motorists and pedestrians.

^^ haaaay salamat... although di man matatanggal lahat ng billboards, at least a significant amount will still be taken down (i hope); since i noticed majority of the billboards today in RP concerns the "wellness" of one's body...:nuts::lol:

Will if I am bobo. Then DPWH is also bobo. Sexy print adds spoiled moral of minors.

So, think about your comments. Shame on you!!!!!Your conclusion that those kind of billboards result to homosexuality (inc. lesbianism) as if it's a sin reeks of stupidity and discrimination. And to add further, you've put it a way similar to rape and other sexual offenses. It is obviously an irresponsible comment and moreover, it is also a NO NO in SSC. Do you have any basis to back up your claims? And you still have the temerity to say those things to me? Shame on me? Shame on you more. Hindi ka nag-iisip bago ka magsalita.

Isa yan sa mga factor kung bakit mataas ang rape case sa pinas. isa din yan sa dahilan kung bakit maraming manyak at rapist at sala tibo at bading. kasi alntad lahat.:ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno:

'Hayden Cam' scandal – DPWH to tear down sexy billboards
05/29/2009 | 09:15 PM
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MANILA, Philippines — Emboldened by the outrage against the ‘Hayden Cam’ sex videos, officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Friday said they have began tearing down not just unsafe and illegal commercial displays along roads but also sexually suggestive advertisements.

Undersecretary Rafael Yabut said the campaign is in answer to the concerns expressed by parents about the increasing exposure of their children to sexually explicit pictures and videos on magazines, billboards, the Internet and television.

Parents are also worried that sex videos being posted on the Internet, including those of celebrity doctor Hayden Kho, have become easily available for viewing even by their young children.

“The sex video controversy seems to have brought out an explosion of indecency. We have decided to lessen this somehow by taking out those displayed in billboards and which millions of students are likely to see when they report to school on Monday," said Yabut, who is in charge of Task Force Baklas Billboard.

Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. ordered the resumption of the task force’s operations in anticipation of the onset of the rainy season and the opening of classes.

President Arroyo created the task force in 2006 after the onslaught of typhoon Milenyo, which saw the collapse of several billboards, resulting in the death and injury of motorists and pedestrians.

Yabut said some motorists have filed complaints with the task force against hazardous and distracting ads, .referring to “sexy billboards" that have proliferated in Metro Manila and outlying towns.

“These lewd billboards pose multiple dangers - they distract drivers who can't help but ogle at the sexy photos; they post dangers to motorists and pedestrians when they fall down; they inconvenience everyone when they collapse unto electric and telephone lines; and they cause traffic jams wherever they fall," Yabut said.

On Wednesday, the department resumed its operation against unsafe commercial displays after removing four billboards of a clothing company and a popular beverage company along the intersection of EDSA and North Avenue; and Katipunan, Quezon City. - Aie Balagtas See, GMANews.TV

this is clearly just political posturing, kelan pa naging religious police ang trabajo ng DPWH???... they must only look into the hazards of the structure and nothing more.. looking at the content is not their job! masyadong pakelamero.. :bash:

20 Metro advertisers remove sexy billboards (http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/06/09/09/20-metro-advertisers-remove-sexy-billboards)

Twenty members of the close to P2-billion outdoor billboard industry pulled out their tarpaulins in Metro Manila over the weekend amid calls for a boycott of their products, a public works official said Tuesday.

“They were conscience-stricken. They realized that many people were against indecent and immoral billboards. They fear the backlash in public opinion will affect the products they were endorsing,’’ said Armando Estrella, assistant regional director of the Department of Public Works and Highways regional office in Metro Manila.

According to Estrella, many people – mostly parents – have started calling the DPWH hotlines to complain of indecent billboards after Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. ordered the renewed campaign to remove illegal and unsafe billboards, including those that are deemed to be immoral.

A top DPWH official received this text: ``The FHM and Tanduay billboard -- seen on Katipunan-Aurora flyover approaching Ateneo -- should be burned.’’

Earlier, Bishop Nilo S. Tayag of the Iglesia Catolica Filipina Independente (ICFI) asked the public to consider boycotting the products displaying sexy billboards for being insensitive to the moral sensitivities of Filipinos, especially women and children.

However, Estrella cautioned people against resorting to burning or boycotting of products and asked them to leave the matter to the DPWH.

"We will fully comply with the orders of President Arroyo and Secretary Ebdane and we will go after billboards that have no permits, those constructed within the right-of-way; those that were assessed to be structurally deficient and unsafe; those constructed near electrical and telephone wires; and those that pose hazards because they distract motorists such as sexy billboards,’’ Estrella said.

Last week, outgoing DPWH NCR Regional Director Robert G. Lala asked DPWH district engineers in Metro Manila to order billboard operators to lower down their signages and tarpaulins "showing revealing pictures (showing underwear and body parts)" or face demolition of their billboards.

Estrella said that of the 37 sexy billboards, 20 have voluntarily removed their tarpaulins, five were removed by the DPWH’s Task Force Operation Baklas Billboard led by Undersecretary Rafael C. Yabut and the rest asked for more time to do so.

20 Metro advertisers remove sexy billboards (http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/06/09/09/20-metro-advertisers-remove-sexy-billboards)

Twenty members of the close to P2-billion outdoor billboard industry pulled out their tarpaulins in Metro Manila over the weekend amid calls for a boycott of their products, a public works official said Tuesday.

“They were conscience-stricken. They realized that many people were against indecent and immoral billboards. They fear the backlash in public opinion will affect the products they were endorsing,’’ said Armando Estrella, assistant regional director of the Department of Public Works and Highways regional office in Metro Manila.

According to Estrella, many people – mostly parents – have started calling the DPWH hotlines to complain of indecent billboards after Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. ordered the renewed campaign to remove illegal and unsafe billboards, including those that are deemed to be immoral.

A top DPWH official received this text: ``The FHM and Tanduay billboard -- seen on Katipunan-Aurora flyover approaching Ateneo -- should be burned.’’

Earlier, Bishop Nilo S. Tayag of the Iglesia Catolica Filipina Independente (ICFI) asked the public to consider boycotting the products displaying sexy billboards for being insensitive to the moral sensitivities of Filipinos, especially women and children.

However, Estrella cautioned people against resorting to burning or boycotting of products and asked them to leave the matter to the DPWH.

"We will fully comply with the orders of President Arroyo and Secretary Ebdane and we will go after billboards that have no permits, those constructed within the right-of-way; those that were assessed to be structurally deficient and unsafe; those constructed near electrical and telephone wires; and those that pose hazards because they distract motorists such as sexy billboards,’’ Estrella said.

Last week, outgoing DPWH NCR Regional Director Robert G. Lala asked DPWH district engineers in Metro Manila to order billboard operators to lower down their signages and tarpaulins "showing revealing pictures (showing underwear and body parts)" or face demolition of their billboards.

Estrella said that of the 37 sexy billboards, 20 have voluntarily removed their tarpaulins, five were removed by the DPWH’s Task Force Operation Baklas Billboard led by Undersecretary Rafael C. Yabut and the rest asked for more time to do so.

Buti nalang tatanggalin nila..

Three’s company in racy Calvin Klein billboard
Massive NYC billboard shows woman on top of man kissing another man


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31390884/ns/business-media_biz/

IMO, Sexy Billboards are ok... hindi naman sila distraction. i really don't get the fuss in showing a person's best body... i think it's an insecurity issue rather than a moral one.

Coming from the advertising industry, billboards are the perfect mask to our impoverished urban landscape... although artificial, it's a much better way of putting color in our streets rather than painting it all pink.

Billboards are simply ugly at least in the Philippine setting. Why not do it the way NY and Tokyo did?

I love Philippine Billboards , for me they define the city. You know you're in MM because you see the big giant billboards. They light up what would otherwise be a dark filthy pollution drenched buildings and lots full of squatters.

I will miss the sexy ads, though I do agree they are a major distraction to motorist. The current "morality" is hypocritical and purely political posturing IMO. Nevertheless having been nearly a victim (my own fault of course) of a tantalizing ad by Angel Locsin I can only agree that they should be controlled otherwise people look at the billboard not the road!

I LOVE PHILIPPINE BILLBOARDS....it lights up my roads up to 11pm since makati and taguig wont turn on the lights

The cause of traffic jams in Metro Manila :lol:

DPWH blames sexy billboard ads for slow traffic (http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=478999&publicationSubCategoryId=63)
Updated June 19, 2009 12:00 AM
– Evelyn Macairan


MANILA, Philippines - Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. yesterday blamed the traffic slowdown on sexy billboards.

“If there is no vehicular accident, then chances are there might be a huge sexy billboard up ahead,” Ebdane said, adding that motorists are tempted to stop and ogle at the (billboard) models, resulting in the slowing down of traffic flow.:lol:

He said that if the moral issues against the vulgar outdoor advertisements and complaints that they could cause vehicular accidents are not enough reason for advertisers to pull down their billboards, then the slow traffic should convince them.

Ebdane admitted that sometimes the suggestive billboards also distract him while driving.

“They (outdoor advertisers) know that some of these billboards are sexually suggestive. They should voluntarily remove these billboards,” Ebdane added.

DPWH Director for Planning Service Melvin Navarro said: “It’s so huge, you can’t help but look and in the thick of traffic, a split-second distraction can mean slowdown, if not accident.”

Traffic in the metropolis reportedly crawls at an average of 10 kilometers per hour (kph).

The 10 kph speed is often the pace during rush hour along EDSA, Ortigas Ave., Shaw Blvd. and Roxas Blvd.

Navarro said the sexy billboards “will lessen travel speed because people slow down to get a good view of the sexually explicit billboards.”

Data released by the DPWH’s Metro Manila Urban Transport Integration Study (MMUTIS) showed that the traffic speed in Metro Manila is considered one of the worst in Asia.

“The level of congestion in Metro Manila is severe enough to cause an average travel speed of 10 km/hour, only slightly faster than that of Bangkok, which has the lowest travel speed of any major Asian city,” the MMUTIS study said.

In Asia, Singapore has the fastest average travel speed of 30 kph, Hanoi, 20 kph, while Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo both have 15 kph.

Earlier, Ebdane ordered Undersecretary Rafael Yabut to speed up the dismantling of illegal, unsafe and sexy billboards.

Billboard operators have already pulled down 20 of 37 billboards displaying indecent and immoral content.

Traffic on roads is only ONE consideration in an efficient metropolitan transport system.

I don't like Philippine billboards, too old, manual (using tarp). I like the neon lights, LED billboards like in HK, Macau, Shenzhen, etc.

Para sakin, safety issue ang talagang dapat tutukan pagdating sa billboards. Most billboards kasi dito sa Pilipinas ehh hindi matibay. Tibay na dapat kayanin ang bagyo at lindol. Kung hindi kakayanin ang ganung standard, dapat mag isip na lang sila ng ibang paraan ng pag advertise.

drove from alabang to fort last night around 1opm..SO DARK nowadays without the billboard lights.....and worse, so hard driving now with on coming cars driving with their high beam lights to compensate.....saving the earth from fossil use never meant turning off billboard lights...........no other country in the world has turned off their street lights...we turned off billboard lights BY LAW but they are the only source of illumination for our roads since our individual cities only install lamps but never turn them on

It's because of the curfew being imposed for the billboards to be turned off at 9:00 pm in order to help save Mother Earth.

Maybe you are referring to the street lights along Service Road. The reason these lamps are not turned on is that electrical wires have not been installed yet. But I will write an email to Muntinlupa City mayor requesting him to turn on the street lights by putting electrical wires along the Service Roads.

Sorry kung medyo wala sa topic ang nasa second paragraph.

By the way, billboards that contain sexual or erotic materials or images are right but should be regulated.:)

For example, billboards showing underwear can be put up at least one month along a major road. Through that way, hindi laging exposed ang may sexual na theme na mga billboards.:)

Most of the media personalities mga sinungaling ............. mga mukhang pera din :ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno: kaya ang bagay sa kanila :bash::bash::bash::bash:

Billboard spotlight falls on taxi
Updated July 18, 2009 12:00 AM :bash:

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=487753&publicationSubCategoryId=65

MANILA, Philippines – A cabbie was slightly injured when a spotlight mounted on a billboard at the corner of Timog Avenue and EDSA fell on his taxi amid continuous rains and strong winds yesterday morning.

The spotlight shattered the Nissan Sentra (PWJ-430) taxicab’s front windshield and damaged its dashboard, according to cabbie Ramir Esplana.

Superintendent Jesus Balingasa Jr., commander of the Quezon City Police District-Station 10, said Esplana was driving at around 6:30 a.m. when the spotlight fell on his vehicle.

Balingasa said the spotlight was mounted on a billboard carrying an advertisement of Holcim cement in front of the BGV building.

He said they referred Esplana to the Department of Public Works and Highways to trace and contact the provider of the advertisement for the cement company.

“After that, the cabbie, no longer came back to press charges. We can only assume that he has reached a settlement with the company behind the billboard,” Balingasa said.

The taxi operator confirmed that the billboard advertising company promised to pay the damages sustained by the vehicle. – Reinir Padua

^^ see, I am for dismantling of all eyesores (billboards) in EDSA.

But I will write an email to Muntinlupa City mayor requesting him to turn on the street lights by putting electrical wires along the Service Roads.


So u just write him an email and he will do that ??? wow can you request also more flowers and plants along the roads and wider side walks ?

I would like also a subway , I think that MRT and LRT are not enough.

Let me know if he granted my wish . I'll send you more requests next week.

I think advertising billboards should be limited to a few per area. And eventually it can grow. It kind of gets annoying to see giant posters everywhere. BUT the few billboards should be really big electronic screen boards which are lighted and can rotate through advertisements. It would be nice if they could also learn how to CREATIVELY advertise in the metro/train system like in South Korea and Japan.

^^

not with the neon signs again :ohno:

I knew I'd get Sir Tasteful's attention.

So u just write him an email and he will do that ??? wow can you request also more flowers and plants along the roads and wider side walks ?

I would like also a subway , I think that MRT and LRT are not enough.

Let me know if he granted my wish . I'll send you more requests next week.

The emailed letter is just a request...a request can be denied upon if the mayor sees that it cannot be done due to lack of budget, etc. I am not hoping that he will do that or put an action on the problem right away but at least, he knows the problem of the unlit streetlights. (Sorry for the O.T)

So u just write him an email and he will do that ??? wow can you request also more flowers and plants along the roads and wider side walks ?

I would like also a subway , I think that MRT and LRT are not enough.

Let me know if he granted my wish . I'll send you more requests next week.

Haha I wish we could have a subway and be advanced like our neighbors too.
Kinda hard to just ask for a subway and get it though. I think they should take their time on that ... save up some money and build a really nice subway like the Seoul Beijing and Tokyo subways. It's not worth it to go through the trouble of building a subway and ending up with the usual crap ... especially since it's so hard to get subway materials and trains underground. If we do it, it should be done right.

The curse of singing journalists, atbp. (http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20100105-245528/The-curse-of-singing-journalists-atbp)
By John Nery
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:28:00 01/05/2010

Filed Under: Media, Television, Eleksyon 2010
I CAN’T get it out of my head, runs one typical comment in one of the many available YouTube versions. Watching ABS-CBN’s “Ako ang Simula” music video, we can easily see why. It is catchy, powerful, unforgettable. It is also wrong.

It blurs, in the name of good citizenship, the already heavily smudged line between journalism and entertainment.

I have many friends in the ABS-CBN newsroom, and its trio of leaders – Maria Ressa, Charie Villa and Glenda Gloria – I both know and admire. I am also quite aware that, under Maria’s management, the ABS-CBN newsroom has fought a difficult but largely successful battle to recover its sense of professionalism after the vertigo of the Estrada years. I have also written, in this space and elsewhere, about seeing this sense of professionalism at work in ABS-CBN and its cable showcase, ABS-CBN News Channel. (I have enjoyed the opportunity to think, or mumble, on air, as a guest of several shows on ANC.)

One more thing: I know the tireless Arlene Burgos and like both the premise and the conduct of the Boto Mo Patrol Mo campaign she manages for the network, and which is directly related, as source to water, to the “Ako ang Simula” (I am the Beginning, or It Begins with Me) music video.

It is for these reasons that I found their singing-acting participation in the video deeply upsetting.

Watching the video the first time several weeks ago, I had a vague sense of unease. I was swept away by the visual narrative, but something held me back. It took several random viewings before I could put my finger on it. Then it hit me: The video makes no distinction between the tres Marias and other news journalists, who all can be seen and heard singing, and the professional singers, like the inimitable Bayang Barrios, who punctuate the video. Perhaps that was, in fact, the point of it all. But this inclusiveness is dangerous, because it sends the message that journalism is a mere subset of entertainment.

Let me be even more specific. I realized, over time, that I was disturbed by the images of my friends and colleagues taking part in the video as singers or actors – and even more upset that their participation was entirely unnecessary. Would the music video have worked without Charie hunched on the train and humming, without Pia Hontiveros leading a chorus of other journalists, without Maria and Glenda singing and staring directly into the camera? I think so.

Obviously, the decision was made, perhaps by the director (Paolo Villaluna) or the executive producer (my colleague-in-columny Pat Evangelista), to include the journalists in the song-and-dance too. (I’m not sure if I want to know what the reasoning process was like.)

But the ABS-CBN network has already come under fire for the celebrity news shows it airs every night and on weekends. These shows deal largely in faux or manufactured news; more damaging from the point of view of an emerging democracy, they devour scarce time and resources that could have gone to feed legitimate news programs.

There’s the rub. The “Ako ang Simula” music video is a product of this same entertainment culture. It not only treats the news anchors like the mass media celebrities they are; it treats even news executives as though they were entertainers too. Indeed, and here for me lies indisputable proof, over the Christmas holidays the music video was easily mistaken for the network’s traditional celebrity-driven plug. (We can also ask ourselves, Did Ed Murrow sing for CBS?)

“Ako ang Simula,” it seems to me, is a dead end for Philippine journalism.

Most of the media personalities mga sinungaling ............. mga mukhang pera din :ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno: kaya ang bagay sa kanila :bash::bash::bash::bash:

^^sakit naman niyan...

Nagpapagamit din kasi sila sa pulitiko...

No housing program for media —Aquino (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20100304-256581/No-housing-program-for-mediaAquino)

By Maila Ager
INQUIRER.net (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20100304-256581/No-housing-program-for-mediaAquino)
First Posted 10:14:00 03/04/2010


DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental, Philippines—Lest he be accused of electioneering, Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III has said no to promising a housing program for members of the media.

But if the senator wins the presidency, his colleagues assured open access to media and more protection for them.

Aquino was confronted with this issue when a local reporter asked during a press conference here Wednesday about his plans for the media should he win the presidency.

“Madalas nating marinig sa mga presidential candidates ngayon na laging nangangako ng pabahay para sa mahirap (We always hear the presidential candidates promising to provide shelter for the poor). How about the media? Hindi naman lahat ng taga-media mayaman. Wala ba kayong plano o programa para sa taga-media? (Not all media people are rich. Don’t you have plans or programs for the media?)” asked a reporter, who was applauded by his colleagues present in the room.

“Electioneering na ho siguro ang tawag dun, boto nyo ko siguraduhin kong may bahay kayo agad. Sinusuhulan ko yata kayo nun, hindi okay yun (Maybe it’s already electioneering: Vote for me and I will make that you will immediately have a house. I might already be bribing you. That’s not okay),” Aquino said.

“What we can guarantee is this: There are various agencies of government that handle socialized housing, which is the new form of low-cost housing,” he said.

Instead of responding to the reporter’s question, Aquino’s running mate, Senator Mar Roxas, promised to provide media open access should he and Aquino win in the May elections.

Roxas said the Aquino-Roxas administration will not be onion-skinned unlike this present administration.

“Unang-una, ang administrayon ni Senator Noynoy-Senator Mar ay magiging bukas sa media. Hindi tulad ngayon na halos dalawa o tatlong taon na ang nakalipas bago naharap ng media ang ating Pangulo. Parati na lang spokesman. Hindi natin malaman kung sino itong mga spokesman na nasa Malacanang (First, the Noynoy-Mar administration would be accessible to media. Unlike now when it took two or three years before the President faced the media. It’s always been the spokesman. We don’t even know who these spokesmen are),” he said in the same forum.

“So ang unang masasabi ng administrayong Noynoy at Mar ay magiging hayag kami, bukas kami sa media, may access ang media. Tulad ngayon kahit anong tanong, kahit anong issue sasagutin haharapin ni Senator Noynoy (That’s the first thing you can say about our administration, open to media. Like now, whatever question you ask, whatever issue, Senator Noynoy will confront),” he further said.

Roxas said he and Aquino would respect the independence of media and welcome any criticisms from them.

“Hindi balat sibuyas. Kinikilala namin na sa isang demokasya (Not onion-skinned. We recognize that in a democracy), I might disagree with what you say but we will defend you right to say it. Yan ang ibig sabihin ng demokrasya para sa amin (That’s what democracy means to us),” he further said.

Former Senate President Franklin Drilon, a member of Aquino’s senatorial slate, said that transparency would be the “hallmark” under an Aquino-Roxas administration.

“Among the first things that we will do… is to redefine executive privilege,” he said.

Drilon said this privilege has been abused by this present administration to hide corruption in government.

This was used, he said, by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, a number of times to prevent her Cabinet from attending a congressional inquiry.

“Executive privilege should only be limited to matters involving national security and foreign relations. It should never be used to cover up corruption in government,” he stressed.


* * * * * * * * * *


Media should be a tool for values formation.
Pagkatapos ng 'EDSA' karamihan sa mga media outlet ay naging parang glossy pages ng magazines.
Payo ng payo, payola naman pala ang katapat!

Ex-senator Sotto wants to amend law protecting journalists’ sources (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=264135)

CEBU CITY, March 13 (PNA) – Former senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto lll wants to amend Republic Act (RA) 53, a law principally authored by his late grandfather-senator Vicente Yap Sotto in 1946 that protects print journalists from compelling them to reveal their news sources.

Sotto, the lone senatorial candidate of the Nationalist People’s Coalition for the May 2010 elections, said that if elected, he intends to expand coverage of the law, not only to the print media, but to all media practitioners.

RA 53, otherwise known as “Sotto Law,” is an act to exempt the publisher, editor or reporter of any publication from revealing the source of published news or information obtained in confidence.

”The publisher, editor or duly accredited reporter of any newspaper, magazine or periodical or general circulation cannot be compelled to reveal the source of any news-report or information appearing in said publication which was related in confidence to such publisher, editor or reporter, unless the court or a House of Committee of Congress finds that such revelation is demanded by the interest of the State,” according to Section 1.

”My grandfather authored the law to protect the print media. After more than five decades it needs to be amended to include all other forms of media used in the present time. The amendment should cover and protect all local publications and networks (print, broadcast and online) not necessarily of nationwide circulation or reach,” said Sotto

Sotto, who is number 53 among the senatorial candidates in the Commission on Elections arranged ballot list, said it will be an honor that he can amend the law authored by his grandfather.

”This is history in the making in the entire legislative records in the Philippines,” he said.

RA 53 was the first law authored by his grandfather, who was a former journalist in Cebu and who founded “Ang Suga,” the first newspaper in Cebuano. Its first issue came out on June 16, 1901. (PNA)

Just a simple test.

Tell me what's wrong with this article:


RP to have 1st surveillance aircraft soon

By Ding Cervantes (The Philippine Star) Updated March 21, 2010 12:00 AM

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga , Philippines – The Philippines will soon have a Big Brother in the sky when its first surveillance aircraft is delivered sometime this year.

“We will have surveillance aircraft that they call ‘eye in the sky’,” Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales told reporters here Friday when he led an inspection tour of 18 SF-260 trainer aircraft being assembled by Italian firm Alenia Aermacchi and its local partner, Aerotech Phils.

The new trainer jets would be delivered to the Philippine Air Force (PAF) at a cost of $13.1 million.

Gonzales also said the surveillance aircraft would be delivered within 100 days.

He said there would be a similar aircraft for civilian purposes.

“(There will be an aircraft for) civilian applications like tracking down those cutting trees and also smugglers who crisscross our borders,” he said.

Civil rights groups have expressed concern that the aircraft might violate privacy rights of individuals.

Gonzales said the surveillance aircraft formed part of the attack helicopters and medium lift airplanes that will be delivered within the year.

He said the purchase of the aircraft was authorized and funded by the government.

“We have to thank Congress which has finally allowed the Armed Forces to go into multi-year obligational contracts, meaning that the money we expect on a year-to-year basis we can already spend today. So we can contract big acquisitions,” Gonzalez said.

He said Aermacchi is transferring its aircraft assembly and parts manufacturing to Aerotech, which is expected to complete the assembly of the jets within the year.

The jets would be used for training of PAF pilots, Gonzales said.

The Department of National Defense (DND) said the contract also provided for integrated logistics package, including pilot training, technical and maintenance training and after-sales support for equipment and spare parts.

The DND has secured a multi-year obligation authority (MYOA) from Malacañang and Congress to fast track the modernization of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

The authority will allow the DND to enter into multi-year contracts for its projects, including the procurement of military equipment.

Without the MYOA, the defense department can only spend up to P5 billion per year from the modernization funds.

Gonzales said the initial phase of modernization, which would involve defense capability upgrade, could be done within the next two years.

He said full modernization, wherein the military would be able to acquire the latest available equipment, could be pursued after 10 years as the country generates enough funds. – With Alexis Romero

The author has no idea what he's talking about?

Library of Congress to permanently archive Twitter posts (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc1619)

Ever wish you could have something you wrote in the Library of Congress?

Well, if you've ever sent a Twitter message, you can: The Library of Congress announced Wednesday on its Twitter account that it will acquire the full history of Twitter messages dating back to March 2006. Additional details are available on the library's blog and on Twitter's blog.

Observers are asking what the Library and its users might do with the information, which is already publicly accessible but has never been properly collected into a single, usable database (particularly one with an academic bent).

The creation of a Twitter archive is really good news — not just for those in the future who need to look up what party P. Diddy was attending on Feb. 23 but also for academics doing serious research about how news is broken, how quickly information spreads during major world events, and how public sentiment on various topics changes over time.

Some big questions remain. ReadWriteWeb asks whether the Library of Congress will offer an advanced search engine for finer-grained insight into Twitter's archives than current Twitter search utilities offer. But whether or not you and I have in-depth access to the Twitterbase, it's academic research that will probably benefit most from this archive. As the Library of Congress' blogger says, "I'm no Ph.D., but it boggles my mind to think what we might be able to learn about ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of data. And I'm certain we'll learn things that none of us now can even possibly conceive."



— Christopher Null is a technology writer for Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc1619)

^^ Not a good idea.

Good memories, and embarassing ones, solidified...

Mabuti pang i-archive at gawing libro ang posts dito sa SSC Pinas.

An open letter to Noynoy (http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=577469)HINDSIGHT By F Sionil Jose (The Philippine Star) Updated May 23, 2010 12:00 AM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/F._Sionil_Jose.jpg


Dear Noynoy,

You are now swamped with suggestions and advice, but just the same, I hope you’ll have time to read what this octogenarian has to say.

You were not my choice in the last election but since our people have spoken, we must now support you and pray that you prevail. But first, I must remind you of the stern reality that your drumbeaters ignore: you have no noble legacy from your forbears. It is now your arduous job to create one yourself in the six years that you will be the single most powerful Filipino. Six years is too short a time — the experience in our part of the world is that it takes at least one generation — 25 years — for a sick nation to recover and prosper. But you can begin that happy process of healing.

Bear in mind that the past weighs heavily on all of us because of the many contradictions in it that we have not resolved, whose resolutions would strengthen us as a nation. This past is now your burden, too. Let us start with the fact that your grandfather collaborated with the Japanese. Your father was deeply aware of this, its stigma, its possibilities. He did not leave any legacy because he did not become president. He was a brilliant and courageous politician. He was an enterprising journalist; he had friends in journalism who can attest to his effulgent vision, who did not profit from his friendship, among them Nestor Mata, Gregorio Brillantes — you may consult them. I cannot say I did not profit — he bought many books from my shop and when he was in Marcos’s prison, your mother brought books from my shop to him.

Forgive me for giving you this unsolicited advice. First, beware of hubris; you are surrounded by panderers who will tell you what is nice to hear. You need to be humble always and heed your conscience. When Caesar was paraded in ancient Rome before the cheering multitudes, there was always a man chanting behind him: “Remember, you are mortal.”

I say to you, remember, the poor — some of them in your own hacienda — will be your ultimate judge.

From your comfortable and privileged cocoon, you know so little of our country and people. Seek the help of the best — and the best do not normally want to work in government and neither will they approach you. You have to seek them.

Be the revolutionary your father wanted to be and don’t be scared or wary of the word “revolution.” It need not be always bloody. EDSA I was not. Your father wanted to destroy the most formidable obstacle to our progress — the Oligarchy to which you and your family belong. To succeed, you have to betray your class. If you cannot smash the oligarchy, at least strive to have their wealth develop this country, that they bring back the billions they stashed abroad. You cannot do this in six years, but you can begin.

Prosecute the crooks. It is difficult, thankless and even dangerous to do this. Your mother did not do it — she did not jail Imelda who was the partner in that conjugal dictatorship that plundered this nation. Watch her children — they were much too young to have participated in that looting but they are heirs to the billions which their parents stashed abroad. Now the Marcoses are on the high road to power, gloating, snickering at our credulity and despicable amnesia.

You know the biggest crooks in and out of government, those powerful smugglers, thieves, tax cheats — all you really need is guts to clobber them. Your father had lots of it — I hope he passed on to you most of it.

And most of all, now that you have the muscle to do it, go after your father’s killers. Blood and duty compel you to do so. Cory was only his wife — you are the anointed and only son. Your regime will be measured by how you resolve this most blatant crime that robbed us of a true leader.

And, finally, your mother. We loved her — she united us in ousting an abominable dictator. But she, too, did not leave a shining legacy for her presidency was a disaster. She announced a revolutionary government but did nothing revolutionary. She promised land reform but did not do it. And most grievous of all — she transformed the EDSA I revolution into a restoration of the oligarchy.

She became president only because her husband was murdered and you became president elect only because your mother died. Still, you are your father’s son and may you now — for the good of this country and people — scale the heights he and your mother never reached.

I am 85 and how I despair over how three generations of our leaders failed! Before I go, please let me see this unhappy country begin to be a much better place than the garbage dump our leaders and people have made it. You can be this long awaited messiah but only if you are brave enough and wise enough to redeem your father’s aborted promise.

Hopefully yours,

F. Sionil Jose

<F. Sionil José or in full Francisco Sionil José (born December 3, 1924) is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language. His novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society. José's works - written in English - have been translated into 22 languages, including Korean, Indonesian, Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian and Dutch>

^^ Sionil should be Nobel-lized already!

Most of the media personalities mga sinungaling ............. mga mukhang pera din :ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno: kaya ang bagay sa kanila :bash::bash::bash::bash:

true that, though i have no concrete evidence to show, I know for a fact that some media figures are under the payroll of local govt departments (here in Davao) para wag silang tirahin

Tanong: Bakit ang pinas ay may mataas na bilang ng media killing sa buong mundo?

Sagot: Dahil ang Pilipinas ay isa sa may pinakamaraming abusado at walang hiya na mga mediamen sa buong mundo.

Kong walang abusado walang matitiklu.......

^^agree!

Tanong: Bakit ang pinas ay may mataas na bilang ng media killing sa buong mundo?

Sagot: Dahil ang Pilipinas ay isa sa may pinakamaraming abusado at walang hiya na mga mediamen sa buong mundo.

Kong walang abusado walang matitiklu.......

+1

Tanong: Bakit ang pinas ay may mataas na bilang ng media killing sa buong mundo?

Sagot: Dahil ang Pilipinas ay isa sa may pinakamaraming abusado at walang hiya na mga mediamen sa buong mundo.

Kong walang abusado walang matitiklu.......

Ahem, I tend to agree. Butakal ang media kadalasan sa atin, walang respeto, maski nga sa pagdoublecheck sa balita hindi na ginagawa.

^^agree!

me 2....mga abusado media dito....nagtatago sa ating democrazy soceity...

talamak talaga ang media related killings kc most of the media personalities bias, pag may galit cla sa isang tao(whether politician, businessman etc.) todo yung paninira nila, ndi na rational ung way ng pagbabalita nila, ang akin lang bakit pipilitin iconnect yung media related violences kay PGMA? i think it should be associated with the justice system not the president herself...

Tanong: Bakit ang pinas ay may mataas na bilang ng media killing sa buong mundo?

Sagot: Dahil ang Pilipinas ay isa sa may pinakamaraming abusado at walang hiya na mga mediamen sa buong mundo.

Kong walang abusado walang matitiklu.......

Ahem, I tend to agree. Butakal ang media kadalasan sa atin, walang respeto, maski nga sa pagdoublecheck sa balita hindi na ginagawa.

talamak talaga ang media related killings kc most of the media personalities bias, pag may galit cla sa isang tao(whether politician, businessman etc.) todo yung paninira nila, ndi na rational ung way ng pagbabalita nila, ang akin lang bakit pipilitin iconnect yung media related violences kay PGMA? i think it should be associated with the justice system not the president herself...

But then again, we have the legal system to settle those issues about libel and slander. Violence should never be an option.

But then again, we have the legal system to settle those issues about libel and slander. Violence should never be an option.

Of course. But yeah, sometimes, mapapailing ka lang din sa asal ng mga naturingang media natin.

On one hand, may nakausap akong Italyanong ekonomista sa ADB dati, sabi nya, mas malala pa raw ang media sa Italya.

http://nakanaks.blogspot.com/2010/05/is-this-vic-de-leon-lima-of-dzmm.html

http://www.friendster.com/viewphotos.php?a=481953311&uid=120914737

eto ba ang klase ng journalist na may kredibilidad? to think station manager pa sya ng DZMM. but then again he's from ABS. not as shocking kung taga-iba media outfit ang gumagana ng ganyang kababuyan.

http://nakanaks.blogspot.com/2010/05...a-of-dzmm.html

http://www.friendster.com/viewphotos...&uid=120914737

eto ba ang klase ng journalist na may kredibilidad? to think station manager pa sya ng DZMM. but then again he's from ABS. not as shocking kung taga-iba media outfit ang gumagana ng ganyang kababuyan.

links not working. what's going on?

naayos ko ang ang link...

eto try mo: http://nakanaks.blogspot.com/2010/05/is-this-vic-de-leon-lima-of-dzmm.html

http://www.friendster.com/viewphotos.php?a=481953311&uid=120914737

naayos ko ang ang link...

eto try mo: http://nakanaks.blogspot.com/2010/05/is-this-vic-de-leon-lima-of-dzmm.html

http://www.friendster.com/viewphotos.php?a=481953311&uid=120914737

ANOOOO BAAAAAAA????? wala ka man lang warning.... kumakain pa naman ako ng dinner.... :( :( :(

Of course. But yeah, sometimes, mapapailing ka lang din sa asal ng mga naturingang media natin.

On one hand, may nakausap akong Italyanong ekonomista sa ADB dati, sabi nya, mas malala pa raw ang media sa Italya.

That's why internet is a blessing. If you don't like the media, just go to the internet where the vastness of information makes little room for inaccuracy and biases coming from the media whose interests are purely for profit.

Ahem, I tend to agree. Butakal ang media kadalasan sa atin, walang respeto, maski nga sa pagdoublecheck sa balita hindi na ginagawa.

Look what happen to Ricky Carandang.
At ang ABS-CBN as a whole. Bias. Polluted mga source nila .

http://nakanaks.blogspot.com/2010/05/is-this-vic-de-leon-lima-of-dzmm.html

http://www.friendster.com/viewphotos.php?a=481953311&uid=120914737

eto ba ang klase ng journalist na may kredibilidad? to think station manager pa sya ng DZMM. but then again he's from ABS. not as shocking kung taga-iba media outfit ang gumagana ng ganyang kababuyan.

Very very very...:ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno:

ANOOOO BAAAAAAA????? wala ka man lang warning.... kumakain pa naman ako ng dinner.... :( :( :(

Eto na lang pagpyestahan mo rain, related pa rin di ba :D :D

http://people.uwec.edu/COLLETBC/Images/black-bear%5B1%5D.jpg

Eto na lang pagpyestahan mo rain, related pa rin di ba :D :D

http://people.uwec.edu/COLLETBC/Images/black-bear%5B1%5D.jpg

Muntik ng bumaligtad sa tummy ko ang kinain kong Jollibee kagabi... :ohno::ohno:

Look what happen to Ricky Carandang.
At ang ABS-CBN as a whole. Bias. Polluted mga source nila .

And Ricky got offered a govt position under Ngoy right?

That's why internet is a blessing. If you don't like the media, just go to the internet where the vastness of information makes little room for inaccuracy and biases coming from the media whose interests are purely for profit.

Tama ka dyan, basta matyaga ka lang magresearch, somehow tatama ka din sa saktong information.

Mga sir, OT, pero kasi yung college publication namin ay niyayang sumali sa CEGP( College Editors Guild of the Philippines) we saw their plan of activities and for 6 months, kailangan namin maging active para makasali. Kaso yung acitivites nila halos puro rally, at ang dating sakin, parang militante sila. Do you think it's smart for our publication to join their organization? And may member/s ba or alumni ang CEGP dito? may I know your experience sa pagsali nyo? I badly need your response:uh:

Mga sir, OT, pero kasi yung college publication namin ay niyayang sumali sa CEGP( College Editors Guild of the Philippines) we saw their plan of activities and for 6 months, kailangan namin maging active para makasali. Kaso yung acitivites nila halos puro rally, at ang dating sakin, parang militante sila. Do you think it's smart for our publication to join their organization? And may member/s ba or alumni ang CEGP dito? may I know your experience sa pagsali nyo? I badly need your response:uh:

No, sayang oras mo dyan. Iba na ang CEGP ngayon kesa dati. When I was one of the top editors of a UP Publication, I hardly participate sa CEGP although member kami kasi wala namang kwenta sila. Ginagawa lang nilang mouthpiece ang mga publications for their own political agenda which uhm usually the agenda of the CPP-NPA-NDF. Naniniwala ako sa malayang pamamahayag pero yung sa kanila propaganda na, parang walang karapatang mag-isip ang mga indibidwal na mga estudyanteng mamamamahayag.

No, sayang oras mo dyan. Iba na ang CEGP ngayon kesa dati. When I was one of the top editors of a UP Publication, I hardly participate sa CEGP although member kami kasi wala namang kwenta sila. Ginagawa lang nilang mouthpiece ang mga publications for their own political agenda which uhm usually the agenda of the CPP-NPA-NDF. Naniniwala ako sa malayang pamamahayag pero yung sa kanila propaganda na, parang walang karapatang mag-isip ang mga indibidwal na mga estudyanteng mamamamahayag.

Thanks sir,. Actually sa totoo lang, nung umatend kami ng general assembly nila sa UP Manila, halos puro nasa state universities yung mga pumunta. No offense pero naawa lang ako sa kalagayan ng mga publication nila. Yung PUP binentahan lang kami ng literary folio nila kasi sabi kailangan nila ng fund para makapaglabas sila ng dyaryo. nagpopost na lang daw kasi sila sa pader nila ng news. Tapos yung mga kinukuhaan nila ng news source eh tunog militante rin. Pero mababait naman sila. Kaso ayoko lang yung mga nilatag nilang activities. Meron pa nga dun sabi lumabas rw kami sa mga eskwelahan namin at pumunta sa times street para mag rally sa tapat ng bahay ni noynoy,.:bash: Thanks po talaga sir:)

Thanks sir,. Actually sa totoo lang, nung umatend kami ng general assembly nila sa UP Manila, halos puro nasa state universities yung mga pumunta. No offense pero naawa lang ako sa kalagayan ng mga publication nila. Yung PUP binentahan lang kami ng literary folio nila kasi sabi kailangan nila ng fund para makapaglabas sila ng dyaryo. nagpopost na lang daw kasi sila sa pader nila ng news. Tapos yung mga kinukuhaan nila ng news source eh tunog militante rin. Pero mababait naman sila. Kaso ayoko lang yung mga nilatag nilang activities. Meron pa nga dun sabi lumabas rw kami sa mga eskwelahan namin at pumunta sa times street para mag rally sa tapat ng bahay ni noynoy,.:bash: Thanks po talaga sir:)


Hindi mo naman talaga maikakaila na may issue of suppression of freedom of expression in many of our schools. Pero kasi ang problema sa kanila din, sa tingin ko ha, mali yung response nila.

Pag binasa mo yung mga publications- parang nawawala na ng saysay ang estudyante at puro propaganda lang ng kaliwa. I had a fight with my editor in chief before, kasi I complained na hindi na balansyado ang pagbabalita namin. At parang puro reprint na lang ng LFS propaganda ang nasa paper namin. Mind you, students pay for the publication so we owe them a great responsibility of being responsible campus journalists.

That was one reason that on my Junior year, although ako na ang pinakasenior na editor sa publication, twice kong tinanggihan ang EIC position kasi nga, baka gamitin lang ako ng CEGP. I settled for the Literary and Culture Section and I was able to release 2 respective folios, probably the best one we ever had in years - to the point nagtanong ang mga estudyante kong for sale sya (its for free). I also fought against censorship within the publication (ayaw nila magprint ng mga words na "colorful" maski nasa konteksto ng essay o short story o tula.

CEGP then had great writers- si Raul Roco for example if I am not mistaken was a former member of CEGP.

oh god.

Hindi mo naman talaga maikakaila na may issue of suppression of freedom of expression in many of our schools. Pero kasi ang problema sa kanila din, sa tingin ko ha, mali yung response nila.

Pag binasa mo yung mga publications- parang nawawala na ng saysay ang estudyante at puro propaganda lang ng kaliwa. I had a fight with my editor in chief before, kasi I complained na hindi na balansyado ang pagbabalita namin. At parang puro reprint na lang ng LFS propaganda ang nasa paper namin. Mind you, students pay for the publication so we owe them a great responsibility of being responsible campus journalists.

That was one reason that on my Junior year, although ako na ang pinakasenior na editor sa publication, twice kong tinanggihan ang EIC position kasi nga, baka gamitin lang ako ng CEGP. I settled for the Literary and Culture Section and I was able to release 2 respective folios, probably the best one we ever had in years - to the point nagtanong ang mga estudyante kong for sale sya (its for free). I also fought against censorship within the publication (ayaw nila magprint ng mga words na "colorful" maski nasa konteksto ng essay o short story o tula.

CEGP then had great writers- si Raul Roco for example if I am not mistaken was a former member of CEGP.

Yeah I agree,. sa college nga namin before we release our newspaper kailangan muna umikot sa iba't ibang directorates for approval eh,. That's why we are enticed to join the CEGP, to get their idea regarding our issue. But to our surprise, they are suggesting stuff which are totally out of our league. Siguro i'll decline their offer na lang and seek help to our student council instead(although medyo may iringan ang SC at SP samin).

Btw, we are going to have a lit folio for the fist time in the history of our college soon,. Hopefully maganda rin kalabasan :)

Yeah I agree,. sa college nga namin before we release our newspaper kailangan muna umikot sa iba't ibang directorates for approval eh,. That's why we are enticed to join the CEGP, to get their idea regarding our issue. But to our surprise, they are suggesting stuff which are totally out of our league. Siguro i'll decline their offer na lang and seek help to our student council instead(although medyo may iringan ang SC at SP samin).

Btw, we are going to have a lit folio for the fist time in the history of our college soon,. Hopefully maganda rin kalabasan :)

Yeah may mga ganyang schools talaga, one time nga may kausap kami na isang private school, nagalit ba naman sa amin ang teacher porket binubuyo daw namin ang mga estudyante nila. LOL

Sa akin lang keep an open mind, keep the channels open.

Good luck sa literary folio nyo.

Subukan mo rin na tumambay sa iba't ibang mga campus, mag-cross enroll at makibalita.
Mag-collate ka ng iba't ibang campus publication at mararamdaman mo ang mga tema at timplada ng kanikanilang kulturang ibinabandera at isinusulong.
Kung meron kang KKK(Kamag-anak, Kaibigan at Kapatid) na nag-aaral mula sa 'kakaibang' eskwelahan, aba'y mas maganda. Sa iyo pa lang ay mayroon ka ng sariling pamantayan ng pamamahayag at hindi ka magiging gayagaya.

Yeah may mga ganyang schools talaga, one time nga may kausap kami na isang private school, nagalit ba naman sa amin ang teacher porket binubuyo daw namin ang mga estudyante nila. LOL

Sa akin lang keep an open mind, keep the channels open.

Good luck sa literary folio nyo.

thanks a lot:)

Subukan mo rin na tumambay sa iba't ibang mga campus, mag-cross enroll at makibalita.
Mag-collate ka ng iba't ibang campus publication at mararamdaman mo ang mga tema at timplada ng kanikanilang kulturang ibinabandera at isinusulong.
Kung meron kang KKK(Kamag-anak, Kaibigan at Kapatid) na nag-aaral mula sa 'kakaibang' eskwelahan, aba'y mas maganda. Sa iyo pa lang ay mayroon ka ng sariling pamantayan ng pamamahayag at hindi ka magiging gayagaya.

Actually nang nenok ako ng mga dyaryo sa UPM nung nakaraan eh, hehe, pano andaming sobra:nuts:

Apparently, TV Patrol World decided to rebrand back to TV Patrol. Admittedly, the new set and visuals are nice. (Will not comment on their journalism, or lack thereof.)

gmeiNFUdez8

Apparently, TV Patrol World decided to rebrand back to TV Patrol. Admittedly, the new set and visuals are nice. (Will not comment on their journalism, or lack thereof.)

gmeiNFUdez8

Every time I will here Ted Failon delivering the report with so much emotion I will immediately change channel and watch anything other than the News program from ABSCBN. News delivery should be devoid of emotion to convey sense of impartiality as per journalism 101. I think they didn't cover that one in his class or perhaps he was absent.

^^ Mukha atang mas magaling si Mike Enricketts sa kanya...

Mike Enriquez started it all because 24 Oras is simultaneously aired in AM radio. Medyo OA dapat ang dating ng boses pag sa radyo. It was quite effective. Ted is trying to do the same but you see BIAS all over his face... even on his voice. :lol:

^^ Hay that's why pag siya at si Anthony Taberna na ang nasa boob tube labas agad headphones.

pag si antonio na ang nagbabalita, lipat ko na sa kahit anong channel:D

sobrang negra kasi magbalita to si tonyo:D

ginamit pala ulit ng 2 yung studio nila noon election at yung mga tech nila sainabay sa pag upo ni nuynuy... 7 nagulat at gianmit ulit yung hologram nila. hahaha

kaya 5 , 9 13, 25 ako nanonood ng news

Mod: Is it possible to merge this thread with Television and Film? So, TV, Film, Journalism, Broadcasting and Multimedia would be one?

TV network executives agree to impose self-regulation
By Christina Mendez (The Philippine Star) Updated September 15, 2010 12:00 AM Comments (28) View comments

MANILA, Philippines - Under threat of being subjected to a new law governing broadcast media, executives of various television networks temporarily set aside competition yesterday and agreed to impose self-regulation in the coverage of crisis situations.

TV bigwigs – Maria Ressa, senior vice president of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs, Luchi Cruz Valdez of TV5 News operations, and GMA-7 vice president Jessica Soho – submitted themselves to intensive grilling by the Senate committee on public information and mass media and the committee on public services.

Sen. Joker Arroyo detailed pertinent constitutional provisions and franchise provisions governing broadcast media at the start of the hearing, putting emphasis on section 9 of congressional franchises on self-regulation and undertaking of grantee.

Citing the apparent possible violations by ABS-CBN in the use of its franchise, Arroyo noted that the TV network provided news footage to CNN.

“I repeat, because of the broadcast overseas particularly Hong Kong, it has damaged the Philippines,” he said, prompting Ressa to admit that their station has a swapping agreement with CNN where both networks have access to each other’s video footage.

Recognizing that the Aug. 23 incident has caused international embarrassment not just to the country but also to President Aquino, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile questioned Ressa on the TV network’s coordination with CNN.

CNN and BBC are among the international TV networks that carried the live broadcast of the hostage drama that left eight Hong Kong tourists dead.

Enrile also grilled Ressa for the multiple roles she played as executive of ABS-CBN, CNN contributor, her decision to write an article for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

The Senate president said Ressa may have committed conflict of interest for “wearing two hats.”

Ressa justified her “stint” at CNN and the WSJ by saying that “journalism ethics and freedom of speech are universal,” explaining further that she merely provided an analysis of what transpired during the hostage drama.

Arroyo noted that congressional franchise comes with a self-regulatory clause and the rights given to TV and radio are not absolute.

Media wants self-regulation

Asked by Enrile what were the lapses of the broadcast media during the coverage, Soho merely acknowledged that they should have been better restrained.

“We do acknowledge that we should have done a better job at restraining ourselves and we should have not assumed that the police were in control of the situation,” she said.

As a result, Soho said GMA7 came up with a set of guidelines that included knowing “when and how to restrain ourselves and assume that the police may not be able to handle media or a crowd.”

Ressa was a bit defensive as she pointed to a set of guidelines prepared by the TV network. “We believed that we did the best we could given the situation,” she said.

She said the “one of the biggest lessons” they learned was that they assumed authorities were doing their jobs.

She said in the past media had been following the guidelines that the police had imposed during the same situations.

“I think the difference with August 23rd was the failure of authorities to actually create a functioning chain of command and to also be able to regulate, to set the parameters—where is the area, where should media go,” she pointed out.

Soho and Ressa insisted on self-regulation instead of a law that would regulate the media.

Valdez, on the other hand, explained that the competition among TV networks was not solely on ratings. “The competition that drives us is not one to want to outdo each other. The competition that drives us that we are not outdone,” she said.

National security vs Right to know

Enrile and Arroyo also lectured the media over choosing between the right to know and national security.

The Senate president said there is a need for broadcast media to determine how to balance their obligation to the country especially on national interest and the public’s right to know.

Sen. Gregorio Honasan, chairman of the Senate committee on public information and mass media, said he will have to gather all information before finally deciding with the members of the committee whether Congress should craft a law or agree on terms with the media over self-regulation.

“We are giving media a first crack in the investigation,” he said.
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=612136&publicationSubCategoryId=63

Media’s Self-Renewal
By DR. FLORANGEL ROSARIO BRAID
September 17, 2010, 5:20pm

MANILA, Philippines – The self-examination going on in the media sector today is an indication of its serious intent in undertaking needed reforms so as to prevent a repeat of the hostage tragedy. As the Senate Committee on Public Safety and Public Information, which convened the dialogue with media executives early this week, said, there is a need to review ground rules, perhaps a need for new legislation, or stronger self-regulation. A general observation is that the media coverage of the hostage crisis had put the country in a bad light.

We recognize freedom of expression as the cornerstone of our democracy and the right to exercise this freedom is one of the most cherished among our human rights. But there are limitations to this right. As Senate Committee Chair Sen. Honasan, members, Senators Enrile, Arroyo, Legarda, Sotto, and others have expressed in so many words, where does the journalist draw the line between his or her ethical and professional beliefs and that of the national interest? There are rights of franchise holders as well as rights of Congress to oversee the exercise of this right in the interest of national security. All broadcast stations utilize airwaves which belong to the public. Yet, Congress, acknowledging the power and influence of the media, had never exercised this right. But perhaps some degree of intervention may now be necessary, according to the Senate Committee members.

There was agreement among the broadcast representatives that indeed, there were lapses in the coverage. They could have done a better job of restraining themselves and should not have assumed that the police forces were not in control. They could have limited visual and verbal coverage which gave too much information about police movements and other sensitive information. They should have exercised more vigilance and changed tactics when there appeared to be a breakdown in negotiations. Even if they did not interview the hostage-taker or air interviews with the latter, they realized this was not enough. But having said all that, the consensus was that there are already existing codes guiding police and media operations. And they were willing to comply with government’s regulation – to pull back, or impose news blackout, if necessary. They recognize the need to strengthen existing codes on self-regulation which are still broadly worded. They are willing to draw the line when human lives and the life of a nation are at stake.

The Manila-based Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility has not been wanting in its continuing warning to the media – that media failure to regulate themselves would invite government intervention. Already, in addition to the threat expressed at the Senate hearing, the Lower House has filed a bill that would require TV and radio networks to delay airing of broadcasts during crisis situations in addition to the possibility of imposing news blackouts.

Since September 11, 2001, after the terrorist attacks in New York City, there had been worldwide escalation of government restrictions on the media. Laws to counter terrorism had become threats to freedom of expression. Eventually, the victims of terrorism and hostage-taking are the people whose right and access to information becomes curtailed through restrictive laws. And, of course, media professionals who begin to “internalize self-censorship in that they consciously or unconsciously restrict their own free will and stick as closely to the official line or the feelings of public opinion.”

The ongoing review of media laws and guidelines is a welcome exercise. But it should expand its concern to other potential terrorist threats – growing violence due to fundamentalism and resource conflicts. It must recognize that the rules of the game must continue to evolve in our information age and borderless world because “information and ideas cannot be stopped at frontiers any longer.” My e-mail is florangel.braid@gmail.com.

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/277587/media-s-selfrenewal

^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=224cFIIDHNA

SRSLY, Someone is not doing there homework research... Grabe, talagang boplaks itong ABiaS-CBN

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs648.snc4/60840_161758773834472_135131913163825_592552_6704703_n.jpg

Solutions provider promises real-time communications

Avaya Philippines Inc., business communications and solutions provider, launched on Thursday a new portfolio of real-time enterprise video collaboration products and services that includes desktop video devices, servers and videoconferencing solutions.

Edgar Doctolero, Avaya Philippines’s country director, told BusinessWorld that users should be "the center of communication in a company."

"Real-time, unified communications is at a crossroads as employees and information technology departments spend too much time juggling and managing applications, networks and directories that dictate the behavior of the user. Business should be collaborated," he said.

Mr. Doctolero said current video collaboration solutions are neither user- nor information technology-friendly as these require separate networks, are bandwith-sensitive, expensive and require participants to conform to personnel availability.

"With the Avaya Aura business solution, people will be able to deliver real-time communications user experience using differentiated desktop video, put people at the center of communication and make true collaboration," he said.

The new solutions, which range from personal desktop computers to multi-screen room systems make high definition, low bandwith video collaboration accessible for more employees in more enterprises at one-third the usual cost," he added. -- Aura Marie P. Dagcutan
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http://www.bworldonline.com/main/content.php?id=17952

Bad image
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 08:39:00 09/20/2010

PERHAPS because they’re looking for fresher ways to go about their own inquiry and distinguish it from that of the executive branch, senators have opened their own inquiry into the Aug. 23 incident by grilling TV news bosses and threatening to pass a law clamping down on media coverage of crises. “Don’t tempt us to use our powers here to . . . issue a general broadcast policy—that will be a law,” Sen. Joker Arroyo warned Maria Ressa of ABS-CBN, Jessica Soho of GMA-7, and Luchi Cruz-Valdes of TV5.

While the respective franchises of broadcast agencies have the peremptory clause requiring holders to comply with a “general broadcast policy which Congress may enact,” the democratic tradition that has evolved in the Philippines is such that the broadcast agencies are self-regulating and formulate their own code of ethics and best practices, both as an industry and as individual agencies. These protocols are enough to ensure the sanity of media’s coverage of difficult situations. Moreover, there are already laws such as the national security law and the law creating the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board that, for better or for worse, govern, if not control, media’s coverage of crises and emergencies.

Arroyo and Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile (strange bedfellows!) criticized Ressa for her reporting on CNN about the hostage crisis and her hard-hitting opinion article in the Wall Street Journal that lambasted the government for the slipshod rescue. Arroyo accused Ressa of “conflicting loyalties,” noting that the former CNN bureau chief was now employed by ABS-CBN but still files dispatches critical of the Philippines with CNN. “As far as I’m concerned, what was beamed oversees from what was taken during the hostage crisis has damaged the Philippines immensely and we have not recovered from it,” he said.

The senator should be reminded that even before Aug. 23, 2010, during the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration, the international image of the Philippines had been suffering from perceptions of official corruption and mismanagement, and from crime and public safety issues. If indeed there’s conflict of interest in Ressa working for both ABS-CBN and CNN, let the two networks determine that and work out their own protocols.

Unlicensed broadcast entities to get reprieve

By Paolo Montecillo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 22:30:00 09/21/2010

Filed Under: Media, Telecommunications Equipment, Government


THE NATIONAL Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has opened a three-month window to allow unlicensed radio operators and broadcasters to register their equipment with the regulator without being penalized.

The move is part of the government’s thrust to maximize use of the state’s radio frequency assets and to raise revenue to help plug a bloated budget shortfall.

NTC Memorandum Circular 05-09-2010 issued on Sept. 16 would grant general amnesty for unlicensed and unregistered radio equipment.

Under the circular, owners of unlicensed equipment may have these devices registered with the NTC from Sept. 15 to Dec. 31 2010.

The circular was issued “in the interest of public service and pursuant to the NTC’s thrust to abate the proliferation of unlicensed radio equipment, and in order to afford the owners an opportunity to comply with existing regulations.”

Fees for the registration of these equipment will range from P1,500 to P5,000 apiece.

Meanwhile, the NTC also said it would raise fees it charges companies to raise funds.

This year, the NTC expects to collect around P3.1 billion –slightly lower than the P3.4 billion collected last year due to the absence of one-time gains.

This year’s expected revenue is still higher than the P2.6-billion target set for the NTC by the Department of Budget Management (DBM), NTC Deputy Commissioner Douglas Michael Mallillin said.

The increase in fees, likely by 25 percent, would be necessary if the NTC were to meet the P3.8-billion revenue target set by the DBM for next year.

The biggest components in the NTC’s yearly revenue collections are the spectrum user’s fee (SUF) and supervision and regulatory fee (SRF) paid by broadcast and telecommunications firms.

Last year, collections of SRF, which is paid by companies under the NTC regulation, reached P1.2 billion. Meanwhile, SUF payments, which are fees for the use of frequencies, reached P1.6 billion.

Despite its contribution reaching billions every year, the NTC only gets a budget of under P300 million annually. The regulator said it would need over P1 billion a year for the next five years for the upgrade of its monitoring equipment.

Financial autonomy, or the freedom to spend the money it makes, is also part of the pending proposal in Congress to reorganize the NTC, giving it more powers to properly monitor the country’s telcos.

ABS-CBN news head Maria Ressa resigns

By Bayani San Diego Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 23:54:00 10/11/2010
MANILA, Philippines—Veteran journalist Maria Ressa on Monday announced her resignation from ABS-CBN network after serving as head of its News and Current Affairs and managing director of ANC (ABS-CBN News Channel) for the past six years.

In her statement released Monday night by Bong R. Osorio, ABS-CBN corporate communications head, Ressa said she was not renewing her contract, which ends on January 3, 2011.

The Inquirer received a copy of Ressa’s statement released after a general assembly of the ABS-CBN news team.

Ressa said, “There is a time and place for everything in our lives. My time and place as head of ABS-CBN News & Current Affairs is nearing its end. My contract ends on Jan. 3, 2011, and I will not be renewing. I have nearly six months of accumulated leaves so I will go on terminal leave beginning Nov. 15.

“It’s time for me to move on, but it’s important we transition properly and prepare our organization – and its new leader – for the challenges ahead.”

A replacement had already been selected to take over Ressa’s post.

“Ging Reyes, North American bureau chief, will assume as news head on Oct. 18, to begin our transition,” Ressa said.

Reyes started in ABS-CBN 20 years ago and has been its North American bureau chief for the past eight years.

Ressa, who was Jakarta bureau chief of CNN International, joined the network in 2005 and instituted reforms, including the establishment of a Code of Ethics for its news team.

Her initiatives reportedly earned her not a few enemies in and out of the news room.

Even the stars of the Kapamilya network’s entertainment division—specifically, Kris Aquino and Willie Revillame—didn’t hide their displeasure over Ressa and her news team.

Aquino, the sister of the President, branded them the “evil people of news” in the heat of the campaign last May.

Revillame, however, conceded to the Inquirer: “Management cannot interfere with Maria Ressa.”

In an earlier interview, Ressa told the Inquirer: “Our goal is to tell the truth. Not to please the candidates and celebrities.”

Ressa also spearheaded the network’s move towards citizen journalism and a multi-platform coverage of elections.

In an earlier interview, she told the Inquirer: “Journalism is being redefined globally. We should embrace new media . . . because it’s not going away. Our role as professional journalists is to help people think and analyze. We engage them through the social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, but we also need to continue doing in-depth analysis of news.”

Because of this innovation, ABS-CBN is credited for spearheading the very first new media department in the broadcast industry, which spawned “Boto Mo, Ipatrol Mo” in the recent elections, now transformed to “Bayan Mo, Ipatrol Mo.”

In her statement, she urged everyone to “value and protect” editorial independence. She wished her team “clarity of thought, stamina and courage to fight for what is right and avoid the compromise of mediocrity.”

In the same statement, she thanked her colleagues in the network for teaching her “so much about what it means to be a Filipino.”

Prior to her acceptance of the ABS-CBN post, Ressa also authored the international best-selling book “Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia.”

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20101011-297203/ABS-CBN-news-head-Maria-Ressa-resigns

ABS-CBN news head Maria Ressa resigns

“Our goal is to tell the truth. Not to please the candidates and celebrities.”



very straightforward:)

Malacañang Backs Down on 2 Mediamen
By GENALYN KABILING
October 12, 2010, 7:55pm

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang has backed down on pursuing criminal charges against two journalists due to concerns the complaint might not stand in court and its respect for press freedom.

Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Eduardo de Mesa said that the Palace legal team initially considered recommending charges of reckless imprudence against journalists Erwin Tulfo and Michael Rogas for their involvement in the hostage crisis last August 23.

But Tulfo and Rogas were eventually excluded from the list of persons recommended for prosecution after Palace lawyers realized the charges might “not hold water in court,” De Mesa said in a press briefing in the Palace.

De Mesa is a member of the Palace legal team that reviewed the recommendations of the Incident Investigation and Review Committee on the hostage crisis last August 23. Upon the suggestion of the Palace legal team, President Aquino merely recommended to the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) or the appropriate watchdog to penalize the journalists for their actions, which he claimed were “irresponsible bordering criminal,” during the hostage incident.


http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/281862/malaca-ang-backs-down-2-mediamen

PNP: Handbook for Media Practitioners a Pro-Active Measure vs Crimes
October 12, 2010, 11:29am

MANILA, Philippines (PNA) — The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday said the release of a handbookfor media practitioners to keep them away from harm was part of the police organization’s pro-active stance for the protection of members of the Fourth Estate.

PNP-Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management (DIDM) head Chief Supt. Arturo Cacdac said the move to come up with the handbook, which contains safety guidelines for media practitioners, was in compliance with PNP chief Director General Raul Bacalzo’s directive.

”This is part of the programs of the PNP chief to help our brothers in the media…to come up with guidelines to media practitioners to avoid falling victims to crimes,” said Cacdac, who is the concurrent chief of the PNP’s Task Force Usig which is tasked to address media killings.

Cacdac explained that Task Force Usig was initially mandated to investigate crimes against media practitioners, monitor development of cases up to conviction of the perpetrators.

”We saw that it is not right to just act when something already happened when the PNP can have pro-active measures,” said Cacdac.

Earlier, the PNP held a seminar on proper handling of firearms among media practitioners which was followed by firearm proficiency seminar.

”And we thought that it was good to come up with a handbook that will serve as guide for our brothers in the media,” said Cacdac.

Cacdac maintained the PNP is not dictating the media practitioners to follow the handbook as he stressed that “it could be modified, this is just a guide.”

In fact, Cacdac said the PNP is open for inputs from media organizations, particularly the National Press Club.


http://www.mb.com.ph/node/281750/pnp-handbook-media-practitioner

Aquino slams media over ‘bad news’
By Christine Avendaño
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 12:40:00 11/15/2010

YOKOHAMA, Japan—In a rare and unexpected move, President Benigno Aquino III slammed the media Sunday night for what he said was its undue emphasis on reporting the bad news over the good news in the country.

The President took the occasion of his meeting with the Filipino community here to make his lament.

“It's possible that you don't get all the news about what's happening in the country,” he told some 1,000 Filipinos who gathered at the Futuba high school auditorium to hear him speak on the eve of his departure for Manila.

President Aquino told them that if they get to watch the news on television or read it from newspapers or online websites, he said that most of the time the news were negative and carried twisted opinions.

“Ang nangyayari kasi, para makuha ang atensyon ng karamihan, kinakamot nila nang kinakamot ang isang katiting na galos (What is happening is that in order to get more attention, they tend to scratch on what were just tiny scrapes),” he said.

But he said these tiny scrapes were being felt by Filipinos at home or abroad.

The President decried that because of this penchant to bloat issues, the good news are not being reported and thus, are not known by the people, especially those based abroad.

“Kahit naman sino, natural lang na nawalan ng ganang magtrabaho kung puro kapalpakan lamang ang nababalitaan (It’s natural for anybody to lose his passion if only the bad news is reported),” President Aquino said.

And that was why he told the audience that he was here to tell them “that your families in the Philippines are in good hands.”

President Aquino said he does not go on trips abroad just to brag, or otherwise his late parents—martyred senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino Jr. and former president Corazon Aquino—would surely make him feel their disapproval.

“Simple lamang po ang nais nating ipaabot: Kaliwa't kanan po ang mabubuting nangyayari sa bansa natin. Hindi natin binibigo ang mga Pilipino. Inaalagan natin ang ating mga kababayan. Kayo pa rin ang boss ko. Ito ang mga balitang dapat ninyong malaman (What we want to convey is simple: Good things are happening to our country left and right. We are not abandoning the Filipinos. We are taking care of our countrymen. You are still my boss. That is the news I want you to know),” Mr. Aquino said.

^^ Futuba or Futaba? Pati dito nagkakamali?

TV5 owner buys 30% of Unitel Group as part of expansion move

by Jeremiah F. de Guzman

Mediaquest Holdings Inc., the owner of TV5, acquired 30 percent of a production company controlled by businessman Tony Gloria in a bid to expand its operations in the entertainment industry.

Mediaquest said in a statement that it made an investment in the Unitel Group, which includes Unitel Productions, Straight Shooters and a new technology group to be formed, and planned to infuse more capital to create “visually exciting images.”

“Unitel’s production experience in both television commercials and content work, plus its leadership in moving images production, strongly complements our growing requirements at Mediaquest group, specifically TV5,” Mediaquest president and chief executive Ray Espinosa said in a statement.

Unitel, a television commercial production house, has the most number of projects done in the region, either on its own or through co-production arrangements.

The production company, which consistently uses the latest technology, has brought in the country’s first video assist and high-definition shoot to post technology. The Phantom Hi-speed camera and a Virtual Studio System are the latest addition to its production equipment.

The Virtual Studio System is the technology used for TV5 programs’ opening billboards. It will also be used in some segments of the new Batibot shows that will air in TV5 later this month.

“Having an alliance with a media partner was also one of the goals of Unitel as it expands its vision to provide the best moving images in whatever form it would be,” Unitel chief executive Tony Gloria said.

“It opens more doors for the company to widen its experience in long form projects and at the same time, providing more media outlets,” Gloria added.


http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideBusiness.htm?f=2010/november/23/business5.isx&d=2010/november/23

House body OK’s TV, radio franchise

THE HOUSE committee on legislative franchises approved last week a bill granting the Cultural Foundation of Davao del Sur, Inc. (CFDI) the franchise to operate and maintain radio and television stations in Davao del Sur.

House Bill No. 794, authored by Davao del Sur Rep. Marc Douglas C. Cagas IV, seeks to grant the nonstock, nonprofit CFDI a franchise for a term of 25 years.

CDFI plans to put up FM and AM stations in Digos, Davao del Sur to broadcast news, music and educational programs. CFDI, whose stockholders include Davao del Sur teachers and government employees, was established in 1989 and provides scholarships and livelihood programs.

Documents submitted by CFDI to the committee stated that any profit from the operation of the radio station shall go to the scholarship and livelihood programs of the foundation.

“Sadly, broadcasting in the province of Davao del Sur is still insufficient. A substantial number of families living in far-flung barangays still are not in touch with what is happening outside of their community,” Mr. Cagas said in the explanatory note of his bill.

Records of the National Telecommunications Commission showed only five radio stations are heard in Davao del Sur. Three are based in the province while the other two, dzRH and Bombo Radyo, are based in Manila.

The House granted CFDI a franchise in the 14th Congress, but the Senate failed to concur.


http://www.bworldonline.com/main/content.php?id=21781

Updated rules for outdoor ads :banana:

Business Insight - Malaya
January 18, 2011

A measure that regulates the P6 billion billboards industry is being pushed in Congress where it is gaining more support.

Rep. Mohammed Hussein P. Pangandaman (Lanao del Sur), a co-sponsor, said House Bill No. 3159 or the proposed Outdoor Out-of-Home Media Industry Act of 2010 seeks to institutionalize safeguards, promote free enterprise and provide government of much-needed revenues.

Rep. Jocelyn S. Limkaichong (Negros Oriental), another co-sponsor, said the billboards advertising industry contributes to economic growth by providing employment and generating income for businesses.

Principally sponsored by Rep. Leopoldo N. Bataoil (Pangasinan), the bill is a one-stop shop self-regulation covering out-of-home (OOH) media industry and addressing issues like environment and technical soundness, safety, size, spacing, aesthetics, etc.

Bataoil said HB 3159 would address the outdated laws that regulate the industry and would set and clear the parameters and expectations for all industry players, including government regulatory bodies.

Laws regulating billboards are scattered in the statute books – in the outdated Chapter 20 of the National Building Code of the Philippines (PD No. 1096) and its implementing rules and regulations; the Philippine Electrical Code; the Philippine Highway Act of 1953 (RA No. 917); the Structural Code of the Philippines of 1992; Civil Code provisions on easement and nuisance, as well as in various ordinances of local government units.

"We need to centralize and update these laws in order for us to meet the demands of advances in technology and bring us further into the 21st century," Bataoil said.

The bill prohibits the construction of outdoor media in a place that obstructs the view of vehicles or pedestrians, traffic signs or prevent a clear and unobstructed view in approaching or merging traffic.

No part of the outdoor media shall go beyond the property on which it stand and no part of it shall be placed on private property without the owner’s consent or any proprietary property of the government, the bill provides.

The bill likewise prohibits the construction of billboards above the roof if the building cannot accommodate the additional load of the structure being erected on top of it.

The bill provides further that the size of billboards shall not exceed 450 square meters and shall be able to withstand a wind load of 200 kilometers per hour. It shall not also exceed 40 meters in height.

The Outdoor Advertising Association of the Philippines (OAAP), through its advocacy arm, the Outdoor Media Advocacy Group (OMAG), is urging Congress to speed up its approval.

Winthrop H.R. Bañez, OMAG executive director, said HB No. 3159 redefines loose and broad terms and conditions in practice today in an exact and forward-looking manner, taking into consideration best practices both here and abroad and incorporating the latest technological breakthroughs in the industry.

During the recently-concluded "Outdoor Advertising Philippines 2010," the 2nd Philippine International Conference and Expo on Out-of-Home Media sponsored by the OAAP held at the SMX Convention Center, most of the delegates representing OOH media operators, practitioners, allied services providers, advertisers, locators, corporate partners and members of the media expressed full support for HB No. 3159.

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Ad industry airs support for billboard bill

Manila Standard Today
January 18, 2011

A BILL on outdoor advertising would limit the height of billboards to 40 meters and their size to 450 square meters, its author Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil said Monday.

“House Bill 3159 would address the outdated laws that regulate the industry and would set and clear the parameters and expectations for all industry players, including government regulatory bodies,” Bataoil said.

The bill would ban the construction of outdoor media in places that obstruct the view of motorists or pedestrians, traffic signs and approaching or merging traffic.

The measure would also ban billboards that extend beyond the property on which they stand, and those to be built on buildings that cannot accommodate the extra load.

Bataoil said said laws regulating outdoor advertising were scattered all over the statute books, including the National Building Code, the Philippine Electrical Code, the Philippine Highway Act of 1953, the Structural Code of 1992, and some provisions of the Civil Code.

The country must centralize and update those laws to keep up with modern technology, he said.

Rep. Jocelyn Limkaichong said she supported the bill, which would safeguard the outdoor advertising industry.

The Outdoor Advertising Association of the Philippines also said it supported the bill and urged its speedy approval. Julito G. Rada

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Not our job

Manila Standard Today
Opinion: Lowdown by Jojo A. Robles
February 24, 2011
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideOpinion.htm?f=2011/february/24/jojorobles.isx&d=2011/february/24

WE are no longer surprised when President Noynoy Aquino goes on the attack against sectors of the media that do not sing his praises. After all, Aquino is no different from any other public official who uses the press when it suits his political objectives and then accuses it of sensationalism and bias when it doesn’t.

But when Aquino called on advertisers not to put their money into media outfits that criticize him, we realize that the President is not merely whining about the bad press that he’s been getting, something he does alarmingly often. Aquino, we now know, will even go as far as calling for an advertising ban on unfriendly media, just to silence his critics.

The irony of this situation should not be lost on anyone: The candidate swept into office by a tsunami of good press is, upon election, now actively seeking ways to muzzle the same sector that is largely responsible for putting him in office.

A few days before the 25th anniversary of the restoration of democracy, Aquino must realize that he cannot appear to be against a free press. The media, after all, was also partly responsible for the events that took place in February 1986 and has been a fixture of the democratic space we have all enjoyed (Aquino included) in the years that followed.

Still, Aquino could not resist the chance to tell the assembled members of the advertising community in a speech last week that perhaps the people who provide media’s lifeblood should also consider if a print or broadcast outlet is offering good news before supporting it with their money. Because truth seems to be a forgotten concept by some of our media practitioners, Aquino said, advertisers should encourag[e] media to police its own ranks.

Aquino said that advertisers should include good citizenship, truth and fairness in their criteria before deciding on which media to advertise in. Or, in the words of his media strategist, Communications Secretary for Something or Other Ricky Carandang, Aquino called on advertisers to put their money into media that is responsible.

Let’s see if we got this right: Aquino, who is routinely accused of incompetence, ignorance, and just plain laziness, who has almost no track record or accomplishment in any field, is now telling experts in a highly specialized industry how to do their jobs?

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The most glaring error committed by Aquino in his late-life attempt at a career in advertising is a common one for him: He confuses what he thinks is good for himself and his administration with what is good for the entire country.

As far as the media is concerned, the Aquino administration may be in power— but that certainly does not make it infallible. Furthermore, media believes that if it failed to point out the mistakes of this or any other government, it would not be doing its job of acting as a counterbalance to official abuse and wrongdoing and of safeguarding the people’s right to know.

It may be good for Aquino if the media only reported the good that he’s supposed to be doing. But that is the job of the government media, its own outlets and its entire structure of propaganda.

As for the advertising industry, which Aquino wants to conscript in his bid to get only good press, its leaders were certainly surprised by the President’s advice to them. AdBoard chairman Andre Kahn said they do not use advertising as a tool to police media.

In a reference to the advertising ban imposed by the Estrada administration on an unfriendly newspaper years back, Kahn said that there have been some administrations that tried to do that, but we in the advertising business do not accept that as a valid way to try and get [media’s] cooperation.

And why would the advertising industry allow itself to be Aquino’s media enforcer? Advertising follows both the markets and the clients that it serves, and media is the vehicle to promote the goods and services that advertising sells. The job of spreading government propaganda just doesn’t figure anywhere in this computation.

At the end of the day, both the media and advertising industries do not serve the government. And the moment they start believing that their work is to be part of the government’s propaganda machine, then they will lose all the credibility to do their true task—to inform, educate, and convince people.

Aquino is not the first public official to accuse the media of bias and unfairness. He certainly will not be the last to try to convince media to singing only hosannahs to him.

But what Aquino and many of media’s critics seem to forget is that the flip side of a free press is the freedom of the consumer to choose what media to believe in. Only the people, voting with their wallets, their time and their attention, can decide if the media is telling the truth—not the government or even the advertising industry.

Aquino may feel he is being unjustly criticized by media, even if a significant percentage of reportage about his administration is still friendly and downright fawning. But he will just have to hope that his accomplishments (and his own propagandists) will be his best defense against his critics.

Sure, he can whine and complain all he wants. But when he starts with the strong-arm tactics, we should tell him—in no uncertain terms—to back away and just do his job.

New journalism

The Daily Tribune
EDITORIAL
March 8, 2011
http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110308com1.html

It started as a challenge. A group of journalists considered 11 years ago what was then a dream of most in the profession: The forming of a newspaper that would be run entirely by journalists, from its management to its editorial content.

A media run purely by those who toil for it is a rarity in the Philippine scene and rarer still are those that thrive for very long.

At the time when it was formed until now, the newspaper industry is dominated by publications managed by major business and political interests.

The Daily Tribune was, however, born right at the precipitous moment when Philippine politics was on the verge of a turmoil.

In 2000, the newspaper was given its birthing quietly at the heart of Manila, and went right to what it has been doing since then, giving readers the real deal in news stories, stripped of the spins and embellishments that interest groups try to peddle and which most other newspapers give out to the public as news.

Initially, it was an equalizing force in a period when major media outfits have become complicit partners of forces out to undermine the democratic process by overthrowing a democratically elected president.

The first year of the newspaper saw the overthrow of former President Joseph Estrada and the installing of then Vice President Gloria Arroyo in his place. Forces that now back President Noynoy Aquino staged what was then billed as Edsa ll but in reality was a military overthrow supported by the Yellow crowd, Makati businessmen and Church leaders.

The plot to take over Malacañang was a success and thus began nine years of Arroyo’s tumultuous reign.

The Tribune was, and still is, an independent paper but is being billed by government and pro-administration media as the opposition paper and through those nine years this newspaper has religiously and unwaveringly become a fiscalizer of the government’s excesses.

From scandal to scandal, which afflicted the Arroyo administration and today, the Aquino government in a regular fashion, The Tribune kept its commitment to bare the facts to the public.

The Tribune thus became one of the most trustworthy newspapers in the land. There was one anecdote that has become an inspiration for the newspaper in which a Tribune reporter was called to a corner by a government employee to tell the reporter that the agency does not subscribe to The Tribune obviously on top-level orders but most of the employees read the newspaper hidden in their desks.

The newspaper also has gone through every conceivable way government did to have it extinguished. There was also a time when government tried to control the editorial content of the newspaper likely with the purpose of later putting a stop to critical reports coming out against government.

The police were ordered to take over the operations of the newspaper and confiscate what they claimed were subversive materials.

A night raid with Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) personnel, bullet proof vests and all were deployed in the Manila office of the newspaper to be met by an unarmed security guard and a janitor with a broomstick. The claimed subversive materials carted off were file copies of the newspaper, some of which incidentally were never returned by the raiding forces.

The next day the head of the police force that oversaw the takeover of the newspaper and the policemen manning the editorial office seemed dazed at their exact purpose for being where they were.

Asked what she was planning to do after the government-ordered takeover, the publisher said without blinking an eyelash “Put the newspaper to bed.”

Many ask why The Tribune is still perceived as critical even with a new government in place.

The answer lies in the newspaper’s motto “without fear or favor” and its commitment to its readers to print stories based on facts.

For 11 years, The Tribune weathered its worst challenges to fulfill the biggest one that happens every day in the newsroom that puts the paper to bed.

Palace hails media for disseminating tsunami alert

By Norman Bordadora
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 13:36:00 03/12/2011
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20110312-324994/Palace-hails-media-for-disseminating-tsunami-alert

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang on Saturday expressed its gratitude to the media for their role in the quick dissemination of the tsunami alert nationwide particularly to areas on the country’s eastern seaboard.

Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said that as early as Friday afternoon, communities in Southern Leyte had already been successfully evacuated as a result of the fast spread of warnings through the media and telecommunications facilities.

“We just want to thank our friends in the media, who really helped disseminate the information particularly to the provinces on the eastern side of the Philippines that have been put on alert,” Valte said on radio.

“When the news broke out, everybody started moving,” she added.

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From what I'm seeing, those large tarpulin billboards will slowly be replaced by digital ones.

Personally when billboards replaced those giant neon signs that you see around Metro Manila during the 1990s and before, it made the cityscape less vibrant at night.

Because it's "Eye On The Philippines" all this week on CNN International, this TV commercial keeps on looping every night during the World Report/Talk Asia segments.

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Cebu Pacific Airways (5J) made the list. Philippine Airlines (PR) didn't.

World's 12 Best Airline Magazines (http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/worlds-12-best-airline-magazines-523957?hpt=hp_bn6)

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:lol: Rugby using buko!

Nice to see these guys joining the campaign by coming up with this cool idea.