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The talent system, a euphemism for contractual employment, is not limited to GMA but a widespread practice in the multi-billion peso TV industry.
Unlike a talent with flexible time, GMA talents’ work schedules were dictated by GMA, and the network had the power to require their physical presence at specific times and locations.
Press Statement 16 November 2011 Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s attempts to escape justice and frustrate efforts to prosecute her is in plain view that nobody could have missed it. The minute she steps out of the country, the quest for justice will...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com It is now only less than a month before Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo leaves Malacañang and the Filipino people could not wait to get it over with. Despite the flak that the Commission on Elections and Smartmatic are getting for bungling...
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com To date, there have been 601 cases of political killings. Political killings or assassinations may be the appropriate term to describe it. But the way these killings were carried out, the use of authority and superior force over an...
BY DENNIS ESPADA (Bulatlat.com) The police has filed criminal charges against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s “heckler,” Cavite State University (CvSU) graduate Maria Teresa Pangilinan, even as Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez shelved his plan to sue her and...
Because they have not the fear of God in them, we must try to instill at least the fear of the wrath of a people fed up with lies and of being screwed by their supposed leaders in broad daylight. Let us fight to stop GMA’s chacha in its tracks. BY CAROL...
News Release March 22, 2010 This was the view of the umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan amid assurances from Malacanang that president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will step down on June 30. Disclaimer | What you are reading is either a press release/ statement...
News Release March 15, 2010 While boxer Manny Pacquiao brought pride to the Philippines yesterday, the Arroyo government once again found a way to bring shame to the country after the United States State Department released its 2009 human rights report on the...
February 4, 2010 “Gloria Arroyo may assert her right to run for a congressional seat in Pampanga, but she definitely won’t have the ease in making her way to Pampanga when she steps down in June,” labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno warned today, saying a “citizen’s...
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com The declaration of martial law in Maguindanao is not the answer to the cry for justice for the victims of the Nov. 23 massacre allegedly perpetrated by top local government officials...
Display of Callousness, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her entourage engaged in a display of callousness when they paid exorbitant amounts for dinners in Washington DC and New York City recently, during Arroyo’s state visit to the US last month. (By Flon Faurillo)
A Study in Contrasts, The sea of humanity that accompanied former President Cory Aquino on her journey to her final resting place attests to her popularity – something she was able to earn because though she had her own faults as a leader, in the end she stood by the people in their fight against tyranny. (By Flon Faurillo)
The AFP kills citizens it is sworn to protect and, as Alston has warned, it will do so until it is called to account for its homicidal behavior. BY PETER SALES* Contributed to Bulatlat A lot of history seems to have been forgotten as the Philippines lurches toward...
Extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, political persecution, baseless accusations, and arbitrary arrest and detention have no place in a democracy. These are contradictory to it. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Norberto Gonzales, Raul Gonzalez, and the AFP...
Addressing members of political parties in Cordillera, Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo once again declared that the Philippines will be among the world’s richest in 20 years. Government statistics, however, belie claims of economic growth. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern...
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