 Just when you thought Malu Fernandez learned her lesson from dissing the OFWs, here is a link on her article about bloggers. This is inspired from the one week long expose on the Gucci Gang.
Fashionista Bryanboy bares his fangs on her. Oh boy...
 | bigsis222 wrote on Mar 13, '08, edited on Mar 13, '08 I replied to this same posting made by another Multiply buddy of mine...
I'm a blogger and proud of it, and I don't think anyone would ever characterize me as a slacker.
If her beef is with those who post within the confines of anonimity, fine, attack them. But not the entire blogosphere. That's too wide a generalization, and one that is wholly unfair. |
 | jeeeeeeeeeezus....at least bloggers are free to speak their mind...but doesn't she realize that blogging is just a modern way of writing? if shakespeare were alive today, he'd blog. and the anonymity of the posters is a necessity most of the time because they lack the courage to put their name behind their convictions...and oftentimes that's the only way to express yourself...everyone's done that, from thomas jefferson to anne rice...my beef is what kinda attitude does she have to attack bloggers while she is a "lifestyle" "journalist"....i mean, WOW dude...in my book, THAT is slacking. |
 | For everyone who would like to see a good directory of blogsites, please click on the link below. Bigsis Lea is included here too! http://whatsikat.com/ |
| I love blogging! And true, I don't appear anonymous! And I am not a slacker. I am a writer, I write what I feel, and I want to share it with every Multiply contact I have who most of the time share my likes and dislikes, and my opinions on serious matters. And I am the type who needs to capture what I feel at a certain time and keep it for posterity. This way, I can go back and recall what I've been through, or even what movie I saw. Life is too fascinating to let the details of our earthly journey be forgotten, or missed.
Long Live Bloggers! |
|  I love blogging! And true, I don't appear anonymous! And I am not a slacker. I am a writer, I write what I feel, and I want to share it with every Multiply contact I have who most of the time share my likes and dislikes, and my opinions on serious matters. And I am the type who needs to capture what I feel at a certain time and keep it for posterity. This way, I can go back and recall what I've been through, or even what movie I saw. Life is too fascinating to let the details of our earthly journey be forgotten, or missed.
Long Live Bloggers!  Hear hear Lilit! Posts like this just shows the kind of people that Ms. Fernandez has meddled with. An example is Mr. Lilit Reyes and his team who sweeped the Araw Awards last November. Please click on the links below for samples of his work. (Lilit, please don't kill me for the plug. Hihihi) http://creativethinkersintl.ning.com/profile/LilitReyeshttp://egreyes.blogspot.com/http://youtube.com/watch?v=2l1GtBP_5fk |
| I'll kill you for the plug, haha, joke lang! Di lang ako sanay ma-promote. Heehee. |
 | The traditional newsroom is vanishing. Traditional journalists like Malu must adapt or face obsolescence. Anonymity in cyberspace empowers the medium. http://oliverpublicist.blogspot.com |
| atstage2001 wrote on Mar 13, '08, edited on Mar 13, '08 The traditional newsroom is vanishing. Traditional journalists like Malu must adapt or face obsolescence. Anonymity in cyberspace empowers the medium.
http://oliverpublicist.blogspot.com Hahahah... Jurassic age and size are the words Oliver would like to say of Malu. He is just too polite to verbalize since he is of the academe for new media studies. |
 | hay. why pay this pathetic boar any attention? all she does is resort to glittering generalities couched in bad english. ignore her like the brat that she is. |
 | guess she really hasn't learned her lesson, or maybe she very much need the attention :P |
 | I think blogging is wonderful. You get to express yourself ( whether or not others read what you write) and you get to learn/ be entertained by reading what others post. sad naman that some people don't "get it". |
 | That's two feet in her mouth.
I don't think there's space for another foot in there.
Strike two, Malu. |
 | What can I say? I can't be a vegetarian, I love her! Prito, ihaw or sinigang, wow! Lalo na kung de leche from Cebu! Don't you just like her? |
 | yapipie wrote on Mar 14, '08, edited on Mar 14, '08 The funny thing is that she lacks research. I think maybe the only blogs she's ever really seen (or cared to see) were the ones that were talking about her. I mean, she was going on and on about people backstabbing and writing viciously about people behind anonymity, but she failed to mention blogs that actually have to adhere to a certain topic or theme (food blogs, gadget blogs, etc). And also that there are thousands of people who blog as themselves, complete with pictures and even full names.
I have to say though, people should stop using the fat card when attacking her. It doesn't make them any better. If people want to say something about her, talk about what you think are the flaws in her thinking, not her weight. |
 | akala mo ke ganda ng potah, mataba na nga pangit pa ugali, sna madapa sya para pumangit mukha para kumpleto na sya!she should just vanish from the face of the earth!!! |
 | Malu just needs attention, like what Simon Cowell does, and inspires angry bloggers to write up...still...bloggers are the now generation of news bearers and artists!!! LILIT, sikat ka na ha..:D |
 | I made the comment below on bryanboys' blog but it got interchanded with someone else name. I hope it doesn't happen here, so I will put my name at the bottom.
The BITCH is at it again. Well I'm at liberty to call IT that because that's what IT calls ITSELF anyways. A BITCH who rocks our otherwise boring and mediocre lives. Or so she says. Ho Hum.... I'm still bored at IT. But my life is no where near being mediocre. I am a BLOGGER and also a commenter. Our lives are anything but.
BB, I know the bitch is reading this, I didn't read about THAT article in the Manila Standard regarding ITS new "papansin gimmick" about blogging. In fact I promised myself that the 4th and the last article I will ever read written by the bitch is "Unseen evil on your dressing table." I've only read about this slam against bloggers and commenter's here in Bryanboy. I didn't even clicked the link you provided to THAT article.
You're right BB, attention is indeed addictive but ITS 15 minutes of infamy is up. So tell IT to stop "hogging" the limelight. We know IT has a score to settle with us bloggers, identified and anonymous commenter's alike because of that faux pas IT did last year, but puhleeze, IT knows what IT did with ITS so called acerbic wit and got what IT deserved for that little boo boo. It's sooooo last century like some out of style and out of taste fashion. Like you BB, I also have no idea what it's like in that insulated cave, but I have to add, if IT can't get on with the program, tell IT to stay there and SHUT THE F*** UP.
I suggest for LE BITCH to try blogging. Go ahead, give it a try! Who knows, by some miracle, THAT blog might become a hit and get lots of "paying" advertisers. That way, it'll find out that blogging is not just a "slacker job or a medium and pastime for lonely people to connect." By the revenues the blog will generate, IT might even have enough to buy a business class or even a first class ticket the next time IT decides to waddle back to GREECE with all her GREASE.
So there.
Genkuro
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| Sorry for the repost above. But I'm not ashamed of what I wrote. My words were harsh but I stand by what I said. The first time she did that I was really fuming because I have friends working abroad (OFW) not by choice but by need. Now she is targeting us bloggers and commenter's alike. She is taunting us bloggers to give her another 15 minutes of fame. She had a taste and now she wants more. Shall we give it to her? I say "Nay!" http://genkuro.blogspot.com/ |
| atstage2001 wrote on Mar 17, '08, edited on Mar 17, '08 guess she really hasn't learned her lesson, or maybe she very much need the attention :P Flash forward: several days after her article, my initial irk is gone and would just like to say that she is one sad character.... |
| The funny thing is that she lacks research. I think maybe the only blogs she's ever really seen (or cared to see) were the ones that were talking about her. I mean, she was going on and on about people backstabbing and writing viciously about people behind anonymity, but she failed to mention blogs that actually have to adhere to a certain topic or theme (food blogs, gadget blogs, etc). And also that there are thousands of people who blog as themselves, complete with pictures and even full names.
I have to say though, people should stop using the fat card when attacking her. It doesn't make them any better. If people want to say something about her, talk about what you think are the flaws in her thinking, not her weight. Pia, great post. Actually, majority of the people who have commented on her here refer to her viewpoint rather than attack on her appearance.
With regards to her lack of research, it is true. Her lopsided viewpoint reeks of her failure as a journalist (as she says it) to be responsible on the content she writes about. |
| Sorry for the repost above. But I'm not ashamed of what I wrote. My words were harsh but I stand by what I said. The first time she did that I was really fuming because I have friends working abroad (OFW) not by choice but by need. Now she is targeting us bloggers and commenter's alike.
She is taunting us bloggers to give her another 15 minutes of fame. She had a taste and now she wants more. Shall we give it to her? I say "Nay!"
http://genkuro.blogspot.com/ Ei Genkuko. Thank you for the post. No apologies needed for expressing yourself.
Yes, we all fumed with what she wrote about OFWs then. Her statements were made because of her sub-atomic perception of the world. By your opening up on that issue, it gives me a chance to share my insights on this that I didn't have then.
OFWs are to me, HEROES, as our government always says. Not only do they bring in the dollars, they make an honest living abroad for their loved ones here that would not be possible if they had stayed in our country.
There is a generation now growing up INCOMPLETE; meaning without a mother, father, sister or brother. At least one of them is working abroad. It is a sacrifice each Filipino family carries with them that they are incomplete.
The encounter is HU-WOW when I travel for work reasons and get to encounter Filipino OFWs. Through the concerts abroad I'm with accompanying Christian Bautista, we connect the OFWs home vicariously.
I love observing them in the return flight to the Philippines. Commonality is that OFWs cannot contain their excitement to see their family. Stories told amongst themselves include the pasalubongs they bought, the gimmicks they want to do for, etc. Ang saya nilang pakinggan. It makes one appreciate the things taken for granted by us based here.
Malu, through her "acerbic" wit as she puts it--diminishes--genuine emotions of our OFWs and replaces it with superficiality to elevate her otherwise sub-atomic perspective as to what is FABtastic.
This pattern echoes to her article on blogging. She diminishes it and misses the point entirely.
If I remember correctly, her column is called The Good Life. What is so good about it if these are the type of articles written? If I may, a better title may be The Lepton Life. |
 | short but cuts deeply....
as what my fave writer, Oscar Wilde, once said:
There is no good or bad taste.. only tasteful or tasteless. And to these lethargic people precariously fixing their selves under the strong hot spotlight, must I say, are consumed by the worthlessness of vanity. |
| Real journalists give comment on blogging:
Broadcast vets discuss change, power of blogs
By Bayani San Diego Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:16:00 03/19/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Beyond the gossip, the fuss and frenzy caused by Australian Brian Gorrell’s blogspot have started a debate on a crucial media concern: How blogs and other technological innovations are changing the landscape of communications.
In separate e-mail interviews, award-winning broadcast journalists— ABS-CBN’s Maria Ressa and GMA-7’s Howie Severino— discussed blogs and news making.
Change, challenge
As the Kapamilya network’s senior vice president for News and Current Affairs, Ressa delivered a speech on the subject recently in Hong Kong. Severino, who co-hosts the Kapuso docu show “I-Witness,” runs his own blog.
“The Internet and blogging [have] democratized access to an audience,” said Ressa. In the past, she noted, the high cost of putting up a radio or TV station had limited “control of the airwaves” to those “who already had power, or those who could afford it.”
The World Wide Web is changing and challenging the status quo, Ressa explained: “[That] power is no longer in the hands of the traditional gatekeepers, mass media. It is now in the hands of the consumer. [But as] in any marketplace … caveat emptor… let the buyer beware.”
Severino pointed out: “The main [advantage] of blogs is the speed with which they can reach a huge audience. There is little that one can do right now to prevent bloggers from slandering other people. At the same time, it empowers individuals to seek justice without leaving their bedrooms.”
Vital concerns
Ressa commented that “blogs and citizen journalism (User-Generated Content or UGC) are raising vital questions: What is the line between professional and amateur journalism? Should there be legal sanctions for abusing the medium?”
The main issue, said Severino, is “whether blogging is as trustworthy as mainstream journalism as a source of information. I think not. But most blogs don’t pose as journalism anyway.”
The Internet has led to an information boom, he noted.
Discernment
“While the number of sources of information has exploded because of the Net, we have to be more discerning in deciding what is reliable information and what is not. [The Net] increases the number of possible sources of information, which also increases the likelihood of [getting the] wrong information.”
Ressa asserted: “Technology is most definitely changing the way journalists do their work. What needs to be done is to understand the trends and technology and put them to use for the purpose of professional journalism.”
She recounted how blogs were used by Nokia to report on the Davos World Economic Forum. “That was unprecedented.”
Locally, she related, “ABS-CBN’s ‘Boto Mo, Ipatrol Mo’ utilized citizen journalism and mobile technology to prevent cheating during the May elections.”
“Globally,” Ressa said, “journalists are figuring out how to harness the technology, to give viewers/readers the information they want.”
Severino acknowledged that “the rights to privacy and freedom of expression and copyright infringement” are “important considerations” in the realm of blogs, but “the rules and concepts of acceptable and best practice are evolving as I e-mail this.”
Take part
Ressa concurred: “Right now, there are no rules, unless you live in China. Even so, it’s nearly impossible to control access to information.”
As she said in her Hong Kong speech: “The ground is shifting beneath our feet, and we need to take part in the global debate about the relationship between old and new media, or we will lose our relevance.” |
| “Globally,” Ressa said, “journalists are figuring out how to harness the technology, to give viewers/readers the information they want.”
That just translates to me as "We are trying to find a way to maintain power so we don't lose our audience to the internet."
The whole article just screams, "My God no, don't listen to the internet, listen to us! US! US!" |
| Well, if you notice, it has been a while and no commotion came out of her baited hook. Wala nang pumatol sa kagagahan niya, which is what I was hoping for.
Thinking about it now, she was just trying to ride on the GG scandal and baiting us bloggers to be her vehicle.
Buti nga wala nang pumansin. |
| and about that blogging issue with Ressa? I concur with yapipie's comment. |
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