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Use and Misuse / Re: Aaaargh!

« on: March 23, 2010, 09:53:04 AM »

What kind of reasoning is that? If the manner the sexual innuendo is expressed is, in fact, "blatant," why can't someone say that it is "a blatant sexual innuendo"? Really now, where's the guy who says this coming from? 

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Essays by Joe Carillo / Re: Watching out against the verbal fallacies

« on: March 09, 2010, 09:18:46 AM »

I agree with you that many sectors of Philippine media are now dangerously politicized. You look around you and see and hear them shamelessly rooting--sometimes actually singing in chorus on TV with torches and all that jazz--for this or that candidate for a national post. On the whole, media people can no longer be expected to be objective and impartial in reporting the news or in dissecting public issues. Whether they like it or not, they have now become the attack dogs and command vote of the publishers and media owners. This looks like the dictatorship of the media to me, and I really wonder how Philippine democracy can get out of this rut.