Reining in the press through advertising?

wonderful!

From a really exasperated kababayan and one who is telling the truth!

Subject: PAANO NAMAN KAMING MGA MIDDLE CLASS NA PINOY

Ako ay isang middle class Pinoy, isang officer sa isang malaking korporasyon at may asawa…dalawa anak. Di na importante pangalan ko kasi parepareho naman tayong mga middle-class….trabaho 9-5, inom konti tapos uwi sa pamilya, laruin si baby, itutor si ate/kuya tapos tulog na, pag wala na pera intay nalang ng sweldo.

Sa nangyayari ngayon sa ating bansa, lahat nalang ng sector ay maingay at naririnig, tayo lang mga middle-class, tax paying at productive Pinoys ang di naririnig. Subalit, buwis natin ang nagpapaikot sa bansang ito. Pag may mga gulo na nangyayari, tayo ang tinatamaan. Kaya eto ang liham ko sa lahat ng maiingay na sector na sana makagising sa inyong bulag na pag-iisip.

Sa Mga Politiko:

Diyos ko naman, sa dami na nang nakurakot ninyo di na ba kayo makuntento kelangan nyo pa ba manggulo.

Sa Administrasyon:

Hayan ayus na ha pinatawad na namin ang pandaraya nyo sa eleksyon,
pruweba dito e di kami umaatend sa mga panawagan ng people power, kaya sana naman gantihan nyo kami ng magandang serbisyo at magaling na pamumuno at malaking bawas sa kurakot naman please para kahit papano maramdaman naman namin na may napupuntahan ang binabayad naming buwis.

Saka Madam GMA, step down ka na pag parliamentary na tayo sa 2007,
tignan mo, i-announce mo mag-step down ka kapag parliamentary na tayo, resounding YES yan sa plebiscite at tigil pa ang mga coup at people power laban sayo. Try mo lang………

Sa Oposisyon:

Di nyo pa ba nakikita na dalawang klase lang ng tao ang nakikinig sa
inyo….isa ay bayaran na mahihirap kungdi man ay tangang mga excited
na reporter na parang naka-shabu lagi….mga praning e at naghahallucinate.

Bago man lang kayo maglunsad ng kilos laban sa administrasyon,
pumili muna kayo ng magiting at nararapat na ipapalit sa liderato ngayon.
Hirap sa inyo paresign kayo ng paresign wala naman kayo ipapalit na
maayos.
Advise lang galing sa isang middle-class na syang tunay na puwersa sa
likod ng lahat ng matagumpay na People Power, magpakita muna kayo ng
galing bago nyo batuhin ang administrasyon. Wala na kaming narinig sa inyo kundi reklamo, e wala naman kayong ginagawa kundi magreklamo….para kayong batang lagi na lang naaagawan ng laruan…..GROW UP naman…sa isip sa salita at sa gawa.

Please lang gasgas na rin ang pagrarally nyo na katabi nyo ay mga
bayaran na mahihirap, magtayo nalang kayo ng negosyo at iempleyo ang mga rallyista para maging productive silang mamamayan. Sige nga, pag
nagrarally kayo yakapin nyo nga at halikan yang mga kasama nyong nagrarally!! Nung People Power namin nagyayakapan kami lahat nuon.

Wala naman mangyayari sa mga rally nyo nakakatraffic lang, kami pang middle-class ang napeperwisyo. Di nyo kayang paghintayin ng 3 araw ang
mga rallyista nyo kasi kelangan nyo pakainin at swelduhan ang mga yan.
Kung gusto nyo tagumpay na People Power kami ang isama nyo….pero pagod na kami e, sori ha.

Sa Military:

Alam nyo lahat tayo may problema, pati US Army may problema, 2,000 plus na patay sa kanila sa Iraq na parang walang rason naman, pero nakita nyo ba sila nagreklamo? Wala diba kasi professional sila na sundalo…..yan dapat ang sundalo di nagtatanong sumusunod lang. Kasi may mga bagay na di kayang maintindihan ng indibidwal lamang, at ang mga nakatataas lang ang nakakaintindi ng kabuuan, kaya ito ang panuntunan ng lahat ng military ng lahat ng bansa. Pero parang military natin yata ang pinaka-mareklamo.
Sabi nga sa Spiderman “with great power comes great responsibility”…..kaya maging spiderman kayo lahat at protektahan ang mamamayan. Sa totoo lang natatakot kami kapag nagrereklamo kayo, kasi may baril kayo at tangke, kami wala.

Wala ako comment sa mga mahihirap, di naman kasi sila maingay na kusa
e, may bayad ang ingay nila. Saka wala rin naman silang email.

Kaya paano na tayong mga middle-class?? Eto hanggang email nalang tayo kaya ikalat nyo na ito at magdasal tayo na umabot ito sa mga dapat makabasa nito at makiliti naman ang kanilang mga konsyensya.

Signed,

Isang Middle-Class Pinoy na walang puknat na binabawasan ang sweldo ng Buwis!

Saka Madam GMA, step down ka na pag parliamentary na tayo sa 2007,
tignan mo, i-announce mo mag-step down ka kapag parliamentary na tayo, resounding YES yan sa plebiscite at tigil pa ang mga coup at people power laban sayo. Try mo lang………

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Another letter coming from the Palace spin factory hiding under the pretext of a supposed middle class frustration.

Teka, ba’t paraing out of topic ang comment dito…

A two cents worth sa topic…

Bakit tila yata nakakaramdam ako ng paranoia sa press ngayon… Bakit hindi muna sila naghintay ng mas konkretong patunay na gagamitin ng gobyerno ang advertising budget nila to suppress the media?

Baka maging example ito ng boy who cried wolf, eventually hindi na maniwala ang mga tao sa mga reklamo ng taga media…

On another note…

Hindi kaya totoo rin na may mga media entities talaga na ang source of income comes from the governetn state-owned institutions… Kung yun ang rason, abay malaking problema nga nila… So the next question is, have they (or will they) compromised editorial independence in the name of the God-money???

Magpakatotoo po yung mga nasa media…

how lucky The Star is…of course, others also that are equally “bright” — gloria propagandists in the guise of balanced journalism.

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rego, there is a blogpost for your comment here http://www.pcij.org/blog/?p=728 . are you afraid no one will be able to read it?

middleclasspinoy, may we hear your comment on e.o. 511?

To all democratic, independent and anti-Gloria bloggers,

With EO 511, let’s brace for a more vicious hordes of pro-Gloria media and blog lapdogs let loose. They are out want to win the media war with more paid propagandists without qualm and moral regard to waste people’s money in the process (Let’s audit this media initiative later once Gloria is out and hold every paid lapdog accountable). They realized that the full time Gloria propagandists they have at present are not enough to silence the truth-seeking anti-Gloria writers sprouting spontaneously all over.

Let’s man the fort! Truth is mightier than all false poropagandists money can buy (Sadly, it’s not Pidal’s stolen money but the people’s money).

It wasn’t Pulse Asia that made the distortions. Whinny was the one who lumped apples and oranges together – a perfect sign of her sham erudition, which unfortunately, some of her groupies swallowed en toto.

like yung star na administration friendly newspaper.. with administrtion people like that guy magno and that sipsip soliven =) ganun ng prototypical media entity na gusto nila.. pag sa tv naamn yung katulad ng channel 9 4 at 13.. puro propaganda pabor ke arroyo lang pinapalabas.. one sided news… that way we wont find out how much deep we are in feces unless its too late.. bigla ka nalng bubulagain na bankrupt na pla tau… habang yung mga officiales natin eh nasa america na lahat.. using all our money para they can live the life.. have theyre children americanized with the twang of course…. not a care in the world.. and dont give a hoot as to what happens to the country they left behind with its illiterate brown tagalog speaking people..

Please read the column today (March 10) of Mr.Max Soliven, our
publisher and well respected veteran journalist, I think he also,
more or less, has the same stance on the issue. I just don’t know why
this “self-serving” stand, as you stated, could make it “disturbing”
to you. It is a fact and reality that media entities have to deal
with each day in terms of survival especially in a very competitive
media that we have. So as a personal stand on the issue of press
freedom, I have been consistent in saying “press freedom” is a
relative term. it depends upon the vested interest of your media owner.

thanks.
ichu
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Talking about balanced journalism. As the letter above clearly stated the media due to realities of life and to survive the stiff competetion may have to consistently redefine the term “press freedom” and act upon the vested interest of “your” media owner. How sad..

May I know who’s in charge of the house? all the presidents men are now pre-occupied on the survival of gloria macapagal arroyo. How can the country move on, when all time and efforts are spent to protect gloria, to save gloria. Who’s minding the store? Nobody. As Joker Arroyo said earlier, this administration will do everthing to perpetuate themselves to power. How GREEDY?

Am now worried and angry because tax collection had increased due to the additional 2% VAT. whose gonna benefit from these additional collections? Yesterday we received our Meralco billing, lo and behold our billing now is over P11,000 when our last billing was only P8,000 something, an addtion of over P3,000. I wouldnt get worried if the collection will get back to us in form of better social, health services for the poor and the needy but knowing Jose Pidal and company are very much around, only God knows where the tax collection will go.

Now this admministration is spending so much taxpayers money again on the barangays for the constituents assembly kuno. Wala silang paki-alam sa gastos hindi naman nila pera yon eh.

Our countrymen are hungry and no decent home to live in, but look at these PUBLIC SERVANTS, walang pakundangan sa pagwaldas ng perang bayan. nakakasuka na. PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!!!!!

To get back on topic…

This EO is another proof of Gloria’s penchant for regarding the entire government machinery as her own personal kitty.

The media doesn’t have any other choice than to fight back (in whatever creative means necessary).

The administration in power can use media to air its propaganda using ITS own party resources just as opposition groups can. However, ad budgets of GOCC’s and other gov’t agencies cannot be used for partisan ends by propping up admin-friendly quarters and excluding critical media for the simple reason that this would constitute a blatant misuse of PUBLIC funds.

If government agencies like PAGCOR have any infomercials that have to be disseminated to the PUBLIC (a public that they are tasked to serve), then their ad placements should never be partial to any particular media entity.

And as for media ownership, it should be pointed out that gov’t has a number of TV & radio stations, as well as, sequestered news publications under its wing, which it can use to air its take on the current events.

an old Danish saying, i remember : ” he who is ashamed of asking, is afraid of knowing ” .

if only the caricatures were viewed having in mind Danes continuing search and peculiar partiality for openness- albeit sometimes through ‘uncomfortable’ routes, mayhem as what had happened is not only uncalled for,

Well and good, dapat nga magtipid ang gobyerno, kaya lang kunwari lang nagtitipid. But look at what they’re doing.
The Contituents assembly is on high ground running to the tune of P125 million taxpayers money according to IBON Foundation. All this just for undertaking a signature drive for Charter Change (Cha-cha). Wow palibhasa di nila pera, baka nango-mission pa?

The media can actually hit back by doinng DEADMA. Wag nang pansinin si gloria at mga alepores nya. The best counter is to IGNORE and IGNORE gloria and company. In fact nakakasawa na nga makita mga photo ops ni gloria. In my house, we have 3 news papers, when I see gloria’s face in the front page, I turn it up side down so I wont see her cute (?) taray face. Why worry, as a publisher said, news papers will survive without governments adz.

Now, who’s fooling who…

Never did I object to anyone of you expressing your opinions, no matter how silly they are.

One distinction you forgot, though, is that supposedly valid conclusions made from scientific studies, be they “hard” science or just of the socio-political variety, should NEVER be subject to anyone’s biases and personal opinions.

Practitioners of various disciplines like economics should know that!

Once an experienced academician like Monsod starts to twist research data to suit her argument, she exposes herself as a charlatan and a fraud, which is not unlike her fellow sham-erudite-of-an-economist Lemon Cheap Executive.

This office will definitely change the entire picture. I’d like to remind everybody about how Big Mike manipulated people’s sentiments leading to EDSA 2. He confided to Nick Joaquin how they distributed Erap tapes coming from Ramon Jacinto, and how they bought and distributed millions of copies of the Pinoy Times bearing the reports on the Erap mansions.

This new EO is a cloak for a propaganda office and not for better management. Channels 4, 9, and 13 are all government-owned, kulang pa ba ito para sa administrasyon? Do the math, how many privately-owned channels do we have now?

The 4th State as media is called is supposed to be a fiscalizer and not a propagandist. Do your job well and the media will only print high praises. The problem is, too much corruption and anomalies in government that these really stands out in the news.

*To middleclasspinoy, try watching CBS, ABC and Fox News, you’ll see that the US military also suffers from rumbling and complaints from the lower ranks. What’s nice about the US is that they address these grievances.

Kaya walang middleclass na sumasama sa mga rallies is because most have migrated to other countries. This is a fact, that is why we are suffering a brain-drain. Through the years, the middleclass has dwindled as those living below the poverty line continues to grow. Of the 84 mil. Filipinos, roughly 15 mil are either under or unemployed. The gap between the rich and poor has grown by leaps and bounds.

“The sole purpose of this EO is to organize and rationalize the public information programs of various government agencies in the Executive branch, no more, no less,” he added.

Huh? Well, that’s precisely what the PIA is for. Why create another body to “rationalize” public info programs of government at *this* time?

“Section 2. Composition. – The Communications Group shall be headed by the Press Secretary and shall have as members the Director-General of the Philippine Information Agency and the Chairman of the government mass media organizations, both of whom shall have the rank and emoluments of Cabinet Secretary.”

O, tapos si Bunye ang magiging boss ng direktor ng PIA at ng Chair ng government media organizations. Why? The media needs of the President are not the same as the communication needs of government agencies, nor the public service agenda of government-owned media. This body will ensure that they be one and the same thing. The OPS needs to manage the President’s image, the PIA should be promoting the *programs* of government agencies, government-owned media should be independently providing news and entertainment (they are *publicly* owned, not official mouthpieces of the incumbent). The Communications Group is clearly there to centralize and politicize media operations across government. In other words, it is a propaganda team. There was a Ministry of Information during the Marcos regime, wasn’t there?

by rego
pen and LCsiao, who are very much entitled to your own opinion and so are the rest of the the Filipinos!!!!!!!!( Ms Monsod is a filipino too and a very proud one)

im just challenging her views rego.. im not telling her to shut up like what gloria is slowly doin to our press… so chill dude..

Oh yes who is fooling who? You believe that Ms monsod twisted that data while I believe she just give us a diffrent way of looking at it. And I believe she very much qualified to do that. Your resorted to low brow name calling while the other side don’t. Indeed who is fooling who?!

— psssst its gloria whose fooling us all.. why settle on small fishes like monsod when you only have to look at the big picture and connect the dots.. di ba?