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ANC broadcast journalist Ricky Carandang suggests in a couple of his blogs that the ZTE Broadband scandal can lead right to the feet of GMA:

From the Frying Pan…
…Into the Fire

This is probably one of the reasons why Malacañang is distancing itself from Comelec Chair Benjamin Abalos. It was Abalos who was right smack in the middle of the ZTE negotiations and GMA was fully aware of it.

Naturally it was Abalos the Chinese would bribe to get the deal going. Yet, the Chinese aren’t wholly to blame. They won’t bribe just anybody, especially a high-ranking government official, unless he’s bribable.

So, do you think Abalos is bribable?

Do take the free poll on this site. Just scroll down until you see the poll on the right. You don’t need to give any information. Just click and vote and you’ll also see immediately the results and what others think.

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If you’re pro-Erap and believe that Joseph "Erap" Estrada is innocent, there’s nothing else you can do but pray for him. He himself got into this mess. Move on and help build this benighted country of ours.

If you’re anti-Erap, don’t gloat. This episode is an embarrassment to our country. We’ve convicted a former President. Move on and help build this benighted country of ours.

No need to say more. Too many of our politicians are falling over themselves in trying to say something erudite about the conviction of Estrada.

It’s sickening.

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Representatives Dan Fernandez of Luzon and Magtanggol Gunigundo II of Valenzuela have called for the MTRCB to shut down the noontime program, “Wowowee.” They cited an anomaly committed during an airing last Aug. 20 where there was an alleged rigging in the contest segment, “Wilyonaryo.”

The show’s host, Willie Revillame, made a public apology about it, complete with watery eyes, but he’s used to that. It’s called, “appealing to the emotions,” because Filipinos are just suckers for it. The guy will do anything to keep his bread and butter. Now every Filipino moron enthralled by Wowowee would swear to the show’s innocence (ABS-CBN said it was a mechanical glitch).

But the MTRCB will not shut down the show, not because of Revillame’s fake emotional appeal nor the audience’s real emotional response. But because ABS-CBN is a powerful institution. And no one in the Philippines really has the balls to come against giants in this country, especially media giants.

Advertisers will not do it. Who cares if Wowowee is such a hypocritical show with no socially-redeeming values? Advertisers’ products are being pushed to millions of people and that’s what matters (I’ll mention those advertisers in a future post).

ABS-CBN, of course, will not shut down a milking cow such as Wowowee. Never mind if Revillame was perceived to be rigging a contest. Never mind if the show is a blatant mendicancy promoter. Never mind if skimpily-dressed girls obscenely gyrate and like to throw their legs up in a supposedly family show. Never mind if more than 70 persons died in a stampede during the show’s first anniversary. Never mind if Revillame, adored by thousands, is accused of wife battery and even child abuse.

Never mind as long as money is to be made. There’s only one reason, really, why Wowowee continues to air.

Greed!

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