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Doesn’t PNoy know anything about algorithms?

At the Presidential forum of the FOCAP, PNoy complained that the media are more concerned with “trivialities” like his love life. My good friend Voltaire Tupaz asks via Twitter’s #PNoyFOCAP: Do you agree or not?

My quick reply: Media is a mirror with an attached lens. It reflects what is placed before it, and a certain social algorithm kicks in to move the attached lens to certain areas of the reflected image. At least as far as mainstream media is concerned, the love lives of the rich and famous do have an appreciable weight in the algorithm. But the weight won’t be worth any if the rich and famous don’t feed anything. WsubLL x 0 = 0. Doesn’t PNoy know anything about algorithms?

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He got bum advice, shoulda got a Heckler & Koch instead.

This morning, I decided to set aside my pseudo-regular blog column, and give way to the persistent pressure from my favorite Mafia character to say his piece about a certain public scandal that happened last Friday involving a fast car, a high-powered gun, and a Palace biggie. (Don’t these three always go together nowadays? LOL.)
AK-47 type II
One of the world's most fearsome assault rifles, the AK-47, comes to mind after a recent public scandal involved such a powerful gun, a fast car, and a Palace biggie. (Don't these three elements always go together nowadays? LOL) Source: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AK-47_type_II_Part_DM-ST-89-01131.jpg

Bene, Don Llamas. I never thought you were a bad Consigliari. You are part of the Family, don’t you ever forget that. We’ve been through some pretty tight situations in the past, remember? But my friend, let me tell you flat in the face: you got yousself some bum advice, getting an AK for your personal security, and then allowing it to just lie around like that inside your SUV.

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Inquirer booboo, for the nth time

PDI booboo
PDI booboo
Yet another booboo (note I didn't say "bobo") of the Phil Daily Inquirer. If the reporter had only read carefully the CPP's press release, he would have promptly noted the reasons given for the delay. I give this particular reporter the benefit of the doubt, seeing as the competition is brutally fierce among online news sites on who's the first to out a story. But I personally know one particular reporter who really writes distortions on purpose, and nonchalantly at that.