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Eugenia Apostol

‘It’s not just the leadership that must change. The people, too, must change’

AFTER TWO people power revolutions where her publications played a role in removing disgraced presidents, Eugenia ‘Eggie’ Apostol retains an optimism that can only come from one who has scaled the mountains and sees the larger view.

“It’s not just the leadership that must change,” she says. “The people, too, must change.”

Read more… | Posted Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

GMA supporters outspent rivals in the battle of the ads, but did they win it?

by Vernon R. Totanes

SUPPORTERS of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo spent more than P22 million in advertisements in major Manila dailies in the period of just three-and-a-half months since the “Gloriagate” crisis began.

But was it money well spent? Public-relations and advertising experts on both sides of the political divide agree that it is unlikely the ads changed many people’s minds. They were mainly a show of strength.

Read more… | Posted Monday, October 10th, 2005