COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEFactual truth-telling is not hate-mongeringBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:04 AM February 24, 2022Historical revisionists would like to equate truth-telling with hate-mongering. That to tell the brutal truth is to arouse hatred among innocents, that it is stoking hatred for those who had brought harm and injury to their victims, hatred for those who plundered the...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEJournalists strike backBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:05 AM February 10, 2022How about journalists striking back instead of just getting struck? How about journalists suing instead of getting sued? For the likes of us, it cannot be turning the other cheek all the time.ADVERTISEMENTMainstream media practitioners, considered reliable sources of news and information...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEGuanzon’s gambitBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:05 AM February 03, 2022In the game of chess, gambit means “an opening in which a player makes a sacrifice, typically of a pawn, for some compensating advantage.” In the game of life, it is “a device, or opening remark, typically one entailing a degree of risk, that is calculated to gain an advantage.”ADVERTISEMENTMany...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEThe unrepentant and the unforgivingBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:04 AM February 17, 2022Before all else, let me say that someone I personally know told me that in their Caloocan City barangay, a former relocation area for informal settlers, forms are being offered for voters to fill out and sign to pledge support for a certain candidate for a national position....

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACELeni’s Magnificat campaign momentsBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:05 AM May 20, 2022Before I proceed in a sober tone, may I shout out with scorn: Ang mga pinagpalista at pinangakuan ay nagtatanong: “Saan na ang GCash?” (Those who were made to enlist and were given promises are asking: “Where is the GCash?”) This is not hearsay. To those concerned, I say: You have...

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