MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Yes, the Constitution guarantees a free press, but being a human institution, there’s no escaping media bias even where none is intended. Still, for watchers of television news, radio listeners, newspaper readers, what fun to navigate election news and coverage of the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza That’s how the twin senators in their look-alike outfits tailored for the rugged life of the campaign will package the work. An active, dynamic partnership. Counseling, consulting each other. Council of 2, cabinet, bureaucracy. Sen. Panfilo Lacson, presidential...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Late in the last century, Sebastian Chua made a drastic business decision. He shut down what was at one time Asia’s largest paper factory. He didn’t explain the reasons, not to me anyway (his presses printed the countless editions of my book about mistresses), but it...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Do you believe in surveys? The bad news for lots of people of a certain persuasion is that the five leading pollsters – SWS, Pulse Asia, OCTA, Publicus, Laylo – have “harmony” (quoting one of their researchers) in that their results are agreeably and arguably the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza There’s a new man at MMDA and he’s about to take your breath away (if not your car). Chairman Don Artes has two options added to the current EDSA protocol. One of them would keep private cars off EDSA two days of the week. The other invokes “daylight-saving time,”...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Not unexpectedly, the government TV channel has been running a series of news features on the Duterte legacy, including his signature war on drugs. On his birthday, the President was congratulated by his executive team – cabinet secretaries – for having fulfilled his...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza You have two days left to greet us a Happy Women’s Month and let us choose, be a happy woman or have a happy month? Happiness is a moment, a condition or an attitude; like love, hard to define. But if a country (or nation) may be considered a family, as in the UN...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Water, water, water! The heat is on. Rain, rain, come this way and stay any day. Only God can make a raindrop, but if man can mix two parts hydrogen with one part oxygen and produce water (H20), can he make an ocean? And even if God causes the rain to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Having run out of new books to read, I picked through dusty shelves for something to rediscover. And there it was, a slender little book in sunset shades of orange and gold. During a black period of deadly assassinations, character assassination, attention-calling crimes,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza As the body count continues in Ukraine; as oil and food prices keep spiking; as temperatures inch up and the water level in Angat dam dips and the planet faces irreversible climate change, how do our candidates propose to solve that P12 trillion debt in the next six...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Reunions big or small are important as a marker of time – how many months, years since the last greeting, the last meeting, the last get-together. In the last two years, we lost jobs, income, opportunities, colleagues, friends and lovers and other strangers, family...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Does Alert Level 1 read the return of bad manners in cinemas? People kicking the chair in front of them, eating popcorn cooked in rancid butter, unwrapping their green mango smothered in bagoong. People swapping movie reviews while the movie is unfolding on the screen,...
