19 February 2020

• The law and SC ruling are clear: No franchise for ABS-CBN, no broadcast

  THE law passed by the 9th Congress in March 1995 that gave ABS-CBN the authority to operate as a TV and radio network is crystal clear: “The franchise shall be for a term of twenty-five years from the date of effectivity of this Act.” Period. Absolutely nothing in that law (and in all franchises) has […]

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• ABS-CBN tramples on the Constitution: 22% owned mainly by US and Singapore firms

  First of a series SOME 22 percent of the shares of media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corp., now worth at least P3.5 billion, are owned by foreign companies, mainly the Los Angeles-based, privately owned The Capital Group, one of the world’s largest investment management firms. Together with several other foreign firms, including the United Kingdom’s Prudential Plc […]

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• Be very careful with lifestyle check campaigns, so vulnerable to extortion

  A RIGHTEOUS campaign it might seem, but the kind of lifestyle checks announced the other day by Presidential Anti-Corruption Commissioner Manny Luna is itself so vulnerable to corruption that President Duterte should ask one of his most trusted officials to monitor this campaign very closely. As reported in this newspaper, Luna said the PACC was […]

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• Yellows’ disgusting anti-Chinese racism in the midst of a global health crisis

  IT is so disgusting that at this time when we humans feel a sense of solidarity in the face of a serious threat to all of our species, the Yellows have demonstrated such anti-China racism at its most sickening level. Exhibit A here is a column published the other day in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, […]

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• Indonesian-controlled newspaper’s alarmist coronavirus coverage

  THIS certainly is another case that proves the wisdom of the Constitution’s framers when they banned the slightest foreign participation in media. The Philippine Star, ultimately controlled by Indonesian tycoon Anthoni Salim through PLDT Inc., last Monday had a banner headline that shocked many: “PH nCoV patients jump to 80.” That is so patently false: […]

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