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So in order for you to develop a payroll system you first need to know how to create a database?

Sure, why not?!

Or maybe there's really no need to politicize everything?

If you are a local you should know that CNN is a liberal press and but they are also trying to be neutral (which we appreciate). Inquirer is notoriously anti-government and manilatimes is neutral.

The point is that journalists should report facts and not be partisan. The quality of Pulitzer Prize winners were put into question when the story that they wrote were not backed up by evidence as to what the manilatimes article pointed out. A couple of police sources doesn't make up the entire police force.

And about Rappler, our consitution says that media should be 100% Filipino owned. Rappler received funding from a foreign company, Omidyar Network, and allowed them to have control of corporate matters. This is a red flag that is why SEC did an investigation. It is really that simple. No need to politicize it.

Or maybe you can read these instead?

"Responsible journalism also means complying with the law," said NPC President Paul Gutierrez in a statement released Tuesday. "To say that the fate of one media entity found to have run afoul with the law translates to media repression in the country is stretching the argument a bit too much."

"The SEC finding is quite clear: that Rappler Inc., has indeed violated the law when it allowed the entry of foreign investors and also allowed, specifically, Omidyar Network Fund LLC, to have control on 'corporate matters' of Rappler based on its own submissions to the SEC"

http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2018/01/18/NPC-on-SEC-ruling-...

http://opinion.inquirer.net/110628/rappler-stop-misleading-e...

http://www.manilatimes.net/rappler-stop-misleading-everyone/...

Something I found:

"Pulitzer Prize-winning piece peddled fake news"

http://www.manilatimes.net/pulitzer-prize-winning-piece-pedd...

Sure it was sugar-coated but I thought this was obvious from the beginning?

What is more troubling is when people like you, who have no first hand knowledge, insists that you know better by just reading a few articles on the internet. And, you're pathetic to assume that murder is acceptable.

Kids are dying and the former administrator are trying to cover it up. If you can't wrap around your head with this better shut the hell up.

Yep a website full of spin. It's a joke.

Coming from someone who haven't been here? You're a joke. All the sources that you're linking are from Liberal leaning media which are full of spin.

We've seen a lot of footage from your media that were edited. How do you explain that?

To discredit the opposition, really?! You're naive. The opposition needs not to be discredited because of their fuck ups for 6 years!

Read about how the former President Aquino and his Liberal Party cohorts who approved the UNTESTED dengue vaccine, DengVaxia!!! It was discovered recently when Sanofi Pasteur declared it as unsafe. Now because of the stupidity of those people 700K+ kids will pay the price because of their greed?! How many already died up-to-date?!

it might not be okay in your country but in ours in came to a point that criminals here are not afraid of the law anymore. on my way to work i saw a criminal stabbed someone in broad daylight and then walk away like noting happened without fearing the police which is just a few blocks away.

that's because a lot of journalists here can be paid. this is a fact. for example, a certain mayor in my city doesn't want to pay his electric bills so what he did was pay journalists to write black propaganda about the president of the electric company to destroy his reputation. and when that wasn't enough he paid the news commentator of an infamous radio station. this happened a decade ago.

Mass murderer? You have no idea what you're talking about.

It is disgusting to link sources from those Liberal Party leaning media outfit which we Filipinos know that are full of crap. Look for a journalist that is fair when writing news and I will acknowledge it.

"And if there is a resistance that would place your life in jeopardy, then by all means shoot and shoot him dead. That is my order"

To defend the people is one of the basic duty of all police here and abroad so what's wrong with that? That's the message of the first article that you linked.

Of course he will congratulate his men about putting their lives on the line for you and others. Plus of course his usual rhetoric (did you take that seriously?)

We all want those policemen found guilty of crimes to be in jail. But did you ever think of who will replace them? You want the military to uphold the law just like back in the martial law days in the 80's? We have a deteriorating police force for a very long time but thanks to Duterte there are a lot of new recruits today. I see them training every day on my way to work.

Paid for what exactly?

You should watch the 2016 senate hearing

The "death squads" or criminals that you are referring too are already part of the police several presidency before Duterte took office. Some of them are involve in drugs and have been killing before Duterte came so why are you blaming the president now?

Like this one where Maria Ressa, without further investigation, just published the news. Months later it was found out that the one who killed the guy was an assassin from the drug syndicate.

https://www.rappler.com/nation/185962-pieta-michael-siaron-d...

From the article that you linked:

"But before Duterte took office, as president-elect, he sent a chilling message to a press corps ready to report on his presidency: "Just because you're a journalist, you're not exempted from assassination, if you are a son of a bitch," he said casually at a press conference. "Free speech won't save you, my dear."

> The problem is when a foreign journalist, like Gianna Toboni, writes something she know little about so let me give you a little more background about that statement. What Duterte said that "you're not exempted from assassination, if you are a son of a bitch" was NOT a threat but a FACT. It is a FACT that decades before the Duterte presidency journalists here were being killed simply because journalists (FACT) here can be paid and used for black propaganda by politicians. We know what he was talking about.

Your physical location is relevant because your knowledge about what's going on in the Philippines is very limited. The fact that you are saying about death squads proves my point. THERE ARE NO DEATH SQUADS HERE! Watching a few videos doesn't make you an expert about Philippines.

People who have not been in the Philippines and are saying things that they don't know are just plain ignorant. For you to even accuse me of being disgusting just proves how naive you are about me and my country.

In the west that might be the case, check and balance for journalists. Our previous administration used to do that as well. Duterte doesn't want to spin information. If you're in doubt you can request something from their Freedom of Information website.

For those who are only relying their information on the internet and who are not physically present in the Philippines that's a rhetoric.

In the Philippines, the old school journalism that you are referring is dead. Most journalists here can be bought and this is a fact. We use social media to get information from government agencies pages without the "spin" included.

> On the other hand this Duterte guy seems to be the usual violent dictator kind and there is no way I can get behind that.

An actress twitted that Duterte is a psychopath and his response was: "I leave her to her Constitutional right to free expression. She should enjoy that".

Dictator right? Some of Duterte's dictatorship plan include:

1. Federalism so that power can be spread throughout the country not in one place only 2. Freedom of Information

Since when did Duterte wants to control social media? Liberal Party wants to control social media since 2016.

FYI, since 2016 a certain Liberal Party Senator and Maria Ressa wants total control of social media and internet.

For those who have no idea about the Philippines and its politics. Rappler is a George Soros funded media outfit and Maria Ressa is well known Aquino (former president) or Liberal Party apologist. In the Philippines, Facebook, not twitter, is the more popular medium people used to engage in social media and politics and Rappler is losing the social media battle in Facebook that's why Maria Ressa is so desparate to get the attention of foreign media. And, from what I read Rappler is in trouble with funding.

The main reason why people are staying away from Rappler is becuase they spin almost all of their news about Duterte and the present administration. Yes there are fake news in Facebook but there are certainly a lot of fake news in Rappler, really.