DPWH and Angry Birds
| C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S |
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
Palace spokesmen can take a lesson or two from the creators of that Web site “So What’s News” whose featured articles, first, that of three senior DPWH officials who were photoshopped and inserted as “inspecting” the damage on the Roxas Boulevard seawall near the Manila Yacht Club and now, the fictionalized “Anti-Angry Birds” bill attributed to anti-planking bill author Quezon City Rep. Winnie Castelo, have gone viral reaching audiences worldwide. The satirical Web site whose tagline read “News That Won’t Make You Depressed To Read The News” and which boldly claims that its raison d’etre is “to inject humor into everyday news and to provide respite to readers who have grown weary with mainstream news organizations’ partisan, biased and depressing way of presenting the news” can be the inspiration of the various Malacañang’s media units to counter the continued and, yes, wearying, stream of negative publicity which has inundated the public consciousness on the administration’s seemingly anemic response to the devastation caused by the recent typhoons..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111007com5.html
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