Rappler journalistic ethics: modern or just plain bad?

Posted by JoeAm on August 3, 2014 · 83 Comments 

I will be doing several articles about Philippine media. Philippine media play a huge role in shaping the Philippines. I believe their output too often works against the well-being of the nation. So I figure it is time to push back against the press for contributing to strife and instability. The Rappler story I will dissect … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Laws and Ethics

Waste segregation: Sorting the good critics from the bad

Posted by JoeAm on July 17, 2014 · 50 Comments 

A beginner’s guide to the personalities and groups opposing DAP by Andrew Lim The noise on the DAP issue has reached deafening levels, and it is time to classify the sectors that are doing the screeching. Just like household garbage, we need to sort them out, since many of them have very dark motives why … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Politics

The hardhearted priest in the hardhearted Philippines

Posted by JoeAm on July 9, 2014 · 43 Comments 

Once again two seemingly unrelated incidents clinked a loud, unified chime in my certified cerebral collection center for the putting together of things. One, a Philippine priest berated an unwed mother who had brought her baby in for baptism, accusing her of living in sin and claiming the baby was born in sin. As if Jesus was … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Philippine Politics

The Philippines, a land of Mafia dons and dead journalists

Posted by JoeAm on July 4, 2014 · 44 Comments 

We read a lot about the shooting of journalists in the Philippines and the inability of the government to stop this assault on one of our most prized democratic values, freedom of the press. The killings are an affront to a nation that prides itself on being among the most expressively free in the world . . . … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, Crime/Corruption, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government

Maybe America should stop worrying about Muslim extremists and worry more about her own

Posted by JoeAm on June 26, 2014 · 62 Comments 

I confess that my confidence in America was shaken to the bone the other day when, innocently responding to a news article comment thread, I was besieged with insults the kind of which I never receive in the Philippines. My initial remark was eventually deleted by the editors even though it was not obscene or even … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, Citizenship/Patriotism, Laws and Ethics, USA/Americans