Wowowee and the women of 200 P. de la Cruz St.
HER NEIGHBORS on 200 P. de la Cruz Street remember the 49-year-old Lolita Bergado as a fair, petite, and pretty housewife who loved to watch television. She lived in a one-bedroom house with her...
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“PHILIPPINE IDOL” semifinalist Ira Marasigan is not your typical reality-television contestant. She is, after all, a fresh graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University who is living an upperclass...
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Howie Severino AS A teenage prankster with a high voice, I once called up an earnest classmate and pretended I was a girl, a sweetly flirtatious chick (yes, we still used that word back then) our...
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AN anxious contestant waits to see whether or not she has won the jackpot prize on Eat Bulaga. [photo courtesy of Eat Bulaga] THE SCREAMING is constant, but no one seems to mind. In fact, the...
View ArticleWar on the air waves: 6 top bets spend P1-B on ‘pol ads’
First of Two Parts IF the law on campaign spending and political advertising were imposed before the official campaign period began last week, one presidential candidate would have already overspent in...
View ArticleTop 3 bets use up half of ad caps in 1st month
JUST a mere month into the 90-day official campaign period, three presidential candidates have already used up more than half of their allowed ad airtime in the country’s two top networks. This is even...
View ArticlePolitical Ads of Candidates for President, February 9 to March 8, 2010
Table 1. Political Ad Placement of Candidates by Medium, February 9 – March 8, 2010 Candidate TV (Feb. 9, 2010 – Mar. 8, 2010) Radio (Feb. 9-28, 2010) Print (Feb. 9-28, 2010) Total Ad Value (as of...
View ArticleVillar, Aquino selling like soap, shampoo, deodorant
IT’S A disconcerting paradox to say the least: In their avowed desire to serve in the highest office of the land, the top two candidates for president – Senator Manuel B. Villar Jr. of the Nacionalista...
View ArticleGaps in law yield ‘creative’ compliance by bets, media
THERE are still a few more weeks to go before the May polls, but the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is already busy counting – political ads, that is, not votes. Election laws put specific caps on...
View ArticleKBP fines ABS, TV5, RMN for hostage crisis coverage
TEN months, nine lives, and a flurry of finger-pointing and paper work later, the controversy over the media coverage of the 2010 Luneta hostage-taking incident by the country’s biggest and most...
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