PinoyWatchDog.com is committed to the highest level of factual, well written journalism that Filipino media around the world ‘censor’, and you the reader are denied, because of business, political, governmental or religious relations between the news agencies and these Goliaths. We carry the banner “Uncensored” addressing issues of concern in our worldwide community — corruption, extra-judicial murder, freedom of the press, divorce, family planning, abortion, women’s rights, and environmental degradation; and reporting on dishonesty and fraud locally.
All PinoyWatchDog.com readers are endowed to be Tanod Bayan, a community sentinel, applauding virtue while condemning dishonesty, corruption, fraud and deceit. We welcome differing views and seek challenges to our assertions of fact or opinion, welcoming lively debate and dissent, walking hand in hand with all katotohanan. As said in John 8:32 “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
PinoyWatchDog.com abhors the ‘cut-and-paste’ journalism of Philippine-American papers, publishing vanilla stories except for the most egregious forms of corruption and dishonesty in the Philippines. There is no ‘cut and paste’ from wire services in our news stories. We only have original stories and columns instilling humor, satire, and parody that not only hopefully entertain but cause us to reflect on the truth that is our reason for being. We use our cannine-like eyes, ears and nose for the common good of the community, and seek all your senses as well as contributors on this journey. Truth is really our PinoyWatchDog.com. We are just temporary companions and stewards of the metaphorical dog.
PinoyWatchDog.com is committed to the highest level of factual, well written journalism that some Filipino media around the world routinely censor, denying you, readers, the whole truth, because of business, governmental and religious relations between news organizations and these institutional Goliaths. We carry the banner, “Uncensored,” addressing issues of concern in our worldwide community, like corruption, injustice, freedom of the press, extra-judicial murders, divorce, family planning, abortion, women’s rights, and environmental issues. PinoyWatchDog.com reports on dishonesty in all levels of our government, locally and in the old country, and we are determined not to be influenced by forces that would seek to divert us from our core mission of reporting the truth.
PinoyWatchDog.Com is committed to the highest level of factual, well written journalism that some Filipino media around the world routinely censor, denying you, readers, the whole truth, because of business, governmental and religious relations between news organizations and these institutional Goliaths.
We carry the banner, “Uncensored,” addressing issues of concern in
our worldwide community, like corruption, injustice, freedom of the
press, extra-judicial murders, divorce, family planning, abortion,
women’s rights, and environmental issues. PinoyWatchDog.Com reports on
dishonesty in all levels of our government, locally and in the old
country, and we are determined not to be influenced by forces that
seek to divert us from our core mission of reporting the truth.
Community members are innately endowed with a civic duty to serve as a
sentinel, a Tanod Bayan, applauding virtue while condemning
dishonesty, corruption, fraud and deceit. PinoyWatchDog welcomes
differing views and challenges to our assertions of fact and opinion,
welcoming lively debate and dissent, and walking hand in hand with
same-minded believers in truth. To quote from the great book: “Then
you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free,” John 8:32.
Community members are innately endowed with a civic duty to serve as a sentinel, a Tanod Bayan, applauding virtue while condemning dishonesty, corruption, fraud and deceit. PinoyWatchDog welcomes differing views and challenges to our assertions of fact and opinion, welcoming lively debate and dissent, and walking hand in hand with same-minded believers in truth. To quote from the great book: “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free,” John 8:32.
PinoyWatchDog.com abhors the “cut-and-paste” journalism currently practiced by some of the community newspapers in our midst, publishing safe, vanilla-flavored stories and staying away from stories that document systemic corruption and dishonesty in the Philippine government because doing so might negatively impact their publishing businesses. There arel be no “cut and paste” stories from wire services and from Philippine newspaper sources. We have only original stories, columns and commentaries, but we also sprinkle our issues with humor, satire and parody that entertain and cause everyone to reflect on the truth, which is our reason for being.
We use our canine-like eyes, ears and noses to work for the common good of the community and to challenge our readers’ senses to be active contributors to this journey. Truth is really our mantra, if you don’t mind our saying so one more time. We are the temporary companions and stewards of the metaphorical dog.
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At the outset, we would like to make the claim that we are committed to report information as news at its most factual state, with the expectation that it will aid us to arrive at the truth. In the light of this stance, we shall endeavor to hold every item appearing in this publication strictly in the spirit of fair and balance reporting. We shall welcome rejoinders and dissents, which are also designed to speak out the truth, but we reserve the right to reject any articles that will seek to use this paper as a venue for fomenting trouble. In short, we shall hold that truth is our reason for being.
As the paper’s name indicates, we shall serve as the community sentinel determined at an instance to expose and denounce any form of wrongdoing. Rest assured, we shall seek to get to the bottom of controversies, so that the truth will prevail. Issues of corruption, fraud and deceit shall have the front seat. Nothing unites the Filipinos to activism than an expose of scandal and corruption. This is not to say, however, that our pages shall be occupied solely by the heavy and serious stuffs. We shall balance our reporting with informative and light, entertaining features.
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Here are a few examples: did you know that in these United States, life is not as rosy anymore as in the Clinton years? The number of people living in the poverty level is more than 46 million, and more than 22 million are children. The national average of unemployment is 9.1 per cent. The real unemployment rate is more than 20 per cent. The most precarious, ready to explode, group are the African-Americans, ages 16 to 19, whose unemployment rate stands at 47 per cent. This puts the situation as very dangerous because it could erupt into riots and violence in the streets any time soon. As for our kababayans in the old country, not now is the time to be contemplating on moving to the United States.
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Also in our folders, we are focusing at the lawsuit filed by Diosdado Duldulao, Janet Duldulao, and their minor son Joseph, against James Geoffrey Beirne, Law Offices of James G. Beirne, 1 to 20 Does, inclusive. This suit is docketed as case no. BC445695, filed on June 29, 2011 and assigned to Honorable Soussan Bruguera, Department 71. The first amended complaint accuses the defendants for the following: 1. PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE 2. BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY 3. FRAUD 4. NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATION 5. BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE 17200 for FRAUDULENT BUSINESS PRACTICES; UNLAWFUL BUSINESS PRACTICES; MISLEADING ADVERTISING. 6. BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE 17500 for FALSE ADVERTISING. The plaintiffs are members of the Filipino community and they are members in good standing, morally upright and fervently religious. They claim that as a result of these fraud and deceit perpetrated by the defendants, their lives are now in disarray, unsure of the future. We shall be reporting more as we get to the bottom.
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The exposures of scandals and wrongdoing are always welcomed fodder for any newspaper, but it is how these matters are handled, and if handled right, this will give credence and integrity to a publication. Certain papers may take opportunity to use these issues as grounds for a shakedown. We proclaim – NOT IN THIS NEWSPAPER once more. We hold that TRUTH is our only reason for being.
Why are we here? Isn’t it too late for us to join the bandwagon of newspaper publication and print media in our midst? Do we have something new to give impact to our existence, or is it simply a desire to do some grandstanding, which ultimately may brand all our staff stupid and a bunch of misdirected fools from the Fourth Estate?
Where are the breeds of younger journalists who can be the guardians of the truth and expose the anomalies victimizing our people? Do we have a shortage of media practitioners who will give priority to exposing the crooks in the society before their safety if only to help in the reduction of the glorified criminals in our midst?
How can we stop the practice by some alleged journalists or pseudo-columnists who twist and reverse the truth for a few dollars to the detriment of their honest-to-goodness peers?
We are here to accept the challenges from the community who kept on asking, if there no more or other newspapers that will answer what we want?
The Pinoywatchdog.com was born out of these challenges.
We are committed to give you the facts as they happened. There will be no sacred cows that will block our way. We will give you the exact scenario. Oh yes, we will name names if needed.
And only print news or articles with community and news value. To wit, we will not publish anything that will serve as icing on the personalities of the undesirables in the community. Neither are we going to picture on our front page the car of our editor which was hit by a fallen acacia tree; nor shall we repeatedly trod on the footsteps of people to avoid trying them by publicity repeatedly by simply juggling or playing around with the same facts to show we are always on top of everything.
We will not pay people to create situations, nor invent and script crimes to downgrade lawyers, medical professionals and others.
We will not act like foolish dogs trailing people and preempt judgments to them on charges, which, more often than not, were fabricated. Neither shall we act as if we have the laws on our hands and say ergo…you are guilty even before conviction.
Our staff will not do that.
We will not publish the same news story by simply showing different pictures taken on the same spot if only to fill our space.
We will give you what you need; what you ought to know and what we feel is the real news for you, our reading public. Let no holy cows scare us as we highlight the truth, for at the end we subscribe to the biblical dictum “You shall know the truth; and the truth shall set you free” John 8:32. read more >>
