Damn that Malu Fernandez and her acerbic wit. I have again received a deluge of emails regarding her worthless articles in Manila Standard Today. What — did her editors tell her to write another stupid article in order to raise their traffic to something even remotely close to Inquirer.net? Face it, [...]
Here it is, our stand, because Manila Standard Today has chosen to hide behind their term “protocol” and issue a pardon to their most beloved columnist for all The Filipinos to see. This is a call to boycott, for the irresponsible behavior of Manila Standard Today, they have chosen to pass up the option [...]
Bring it on, Manila Standard. Let’s talk about the real issue.
We will call for a renewed boycott on Manila Standard. Our next post will be focused on the plan of action, how everyone can participate. No longer will we ask anything of Malu Fernandez, for clearly she is incapable of doing the [...]
As was seen in our previous post, regarding Media in Focus, during the airing of the show, Cheche Lazaro made it public the separate statements given to them by both Manila Standard Today and Malu Fernandez. Malu’s statement was a text message. Let’s first focus on the Manila Standard statement directed to Media [...]
Here it is folks, The videos. The ABS-CBN News Channel show, “Media in Focus”. This was the episode last week in which fellow bloggers Benj Espina and Josel Gonzalez were invited to the show to give their take on the Malu Fernandez issue. I couldn’t make it since I’m currently out of [...]
In the past weeks, bloggers, Overseas Filipino Workers, our readers, and the general Filipino public have displayed their outrage, in what was an inappropriate, bigoted, and discriminatory article written by Malu Fernandez. The issue was born out of a scanned article, and quickly grew as soon as blogger’s took up the issue.
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Yesterday, we were made aware of The Statement made by the Publisher of People Asia Magazine, Babe Romualdez. His statement follows, and it is very telling that indeed our voices reverberated even into the offices of higher management itself. At the beginning, I had thought that this issue was being kept from them, [...]
As was the goal from the very start, mainstream media finally picked up the Malu Fernandez issue. Our goal was accomplished, not only on this front, but also with the apology of Malu Fernandez and her tendered resignation letter to People Asia Magazine and Manila Standard Today.
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Columnist quits after courting ire of [...]
The Malu Fernandez issue of bigotry, discrimination, and irresponsibility with regards to her article in People Asia Magazine and her subsequent article in The Manila Standard Today has finally caused the specific result that we have been calling for, and that she is no longer affiliated or writes for both media organizations.
In a statement which [...]
STATEMENT FROM THE FILIPINO PRESS CLUB-DUBAI ON THE DEROGATORY ARTICLES OF MALU FERNANDEZ
Ms. Malu Fernandez’s travel columns “From Boracay to Greece†(People Asia, June 2007) and “Am I being a diva? Or do you lack common sense?†(Manila Standard Online, July 30, 2007) continue to draw negative reactions from Filipinos here in the United [...]
It seems there are some who would condemn the firing of Malu Fernandez, but I’m sorry, this is the stand I am taking, and I am happy to say, many of our dear readers are taking that stand with me. We refuse to back down, and we refuse to give way to bigotry. [...]
With the recent Malu Fernandez controversy, as I have said in an earlier article, I certainly hope someday, sooner rather than later, that Malu’s paradigm shifts dramatically in terms of her discriminatory thinking towards Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). There is no wit that can be ascribed to her article, just plain bigotry. And [...]
To think that the paper itself is titled the Manila Standard Today, begs the question as to what kind of standards they are upholding. Indeed with such an article that was written by Malu Fernandez, The Manila Standard Today should have stepped up to the plate and fired Malu Fernandez. People Asia Magazine [...]
Malu Fernandez’s contention that no one gets her “acerbic wit” is maybe why she remains clueless. Any sane and logical person would not be able to understand any statement if it is senseless and illogical. The fact that she thinks this sort of writing is witty is something that leaves this reader scratching [...]
The People Asia article of Malu Fernandez is based on prejudice and discrimination on the belief that social or economic status determines a person’s worth. And that just because one perceives himself or herself as being in the higher socioeconomic class, gives that person the right to speak with great and utter disrespect, intolerance, [...]
With the recent irresponsible, elitist, bigoted, and discriminating comments made by Manila Standard Today columnist Malu Fernandez in her People Asia magazine article “From Boracay to Greece” in which she makes many belittling comments about Overseas Filipino Workers and Filipinos in general, the response from Filipino bloggers have been overwhelming, and have not been light [...]
