Juday: Violence against women unacceptable
By Allan Policarpio
“Nervous, overwhelmed and pressured” was how Judy Ann Santos described the feeling of doing a drama series after three years of hosting reality shows and occasional acting stints.
“Nervous, overwhelmed and pressured” was how Judy Ann Santos described the feeling of doing a drama series after three years of hosting reality shows and occasional acting stints.
The recent spate of serial killings and “massacres” in schools and other hitherto “safe” places has triggered a national wave of concern and urgent calls for action and reform across the United States. Much of the focus has been on limiting access to powerful weapons, so the reforms have met strong opposition from the [...]
NBC says it is conscious about the amount of violence it airs in the wake of real-life tragedies, but it isn’t really an issue because NBC isn’t the “shoot-’em-up” network.
On November 25, Senator Pia Cayetano began her 18-day social media campaign, “#Speak Up,” to end violence against women. She was our guest at the Women in Media Forum’s “Bulong Pulungan at Sofitel.”
Government censors will be implementing a “TV violence rating code” to get television networks to tone down graphic scenes of sex and violence in the news and other programs, while setting aside 15 percent of their airtime for “child-friendly” programming.
Don’t look now, but slowly and surely—and insidiously—sex has come back to local TV screens, sometimes as early as the daytime and even morning hours! Do we have to state the obvious, that TV is a mass medium that enters people’s homes, so what it shows has to be For General Patronage, because vulnerable minors are watching?
LOS ANGELES – With both of her kids with ex-husband Sean Penn now grown up, Robin Wright has more time to devote to her causes. First stop for the actress: Congo, where she will film a documentary on sexual violence against women in the war-torn country. “My son just graduated from high school and he’s [...]
HER MOTHER was a battered wife, confesses acclaimed actress and TV host Angel Aquino. She anchors “Kinse,” a six-part series of short films about human rights airing next month on ANC, the ABS-CBN News Channel. “Kinse”—which takes its title from the 15 directors (Erik Matti, Carlitos Siguion-Reyna and Paolo Villaluna, among them) who took part [...]
