From the network ratings war to some star's Louis Vuitton bags, PEP (Philippine Entertainment Portal) users will speak their minds and share smart, sharp, and even funny comments that can prove more entertaining than our own articles! So once again, here are our Top 5 Comments, chosen by our Community Editor Elyas Isabelo Salanga.
LOLIT SOLIS SUSPENDED BY MTRCB FOR ONE WEEK
"alam ninyo, that is so ridiculous that the MTRCB suspended her, for one thing, PUWERTA should not even be an obscene word anyway, because PUERTA is SPANISH FOR DOOR. Any Spanish speaking Filipino would not even be shocked by that word. At sobrang overconservative the MTRCB, because I hardly doubt that Ms. Solis would be the type of person to use it in a bastos way like a comedian like Willie Revillame would, I've heard him say even more obscene things. The MTRCB is inhibiting the intelligence of our country."—posted by aracelie on April 16, 2007 at 14:41 PM
PEP COMMENT: Aracelie is just one of the hundreds confused, even outraged, by the move of the MTRCB (Movie and Television Review and Classification Board) to suspend Startalk host Lolit Solis and have her reprimanded by GMA-7 management for saying the word "puerta" on her Saturday afternoon show.
Araceli is right. Puerta means a door, an opening. Over time, it evolved to mean the opening through which a baby can come out, or the vagina. Lolit Solis used it in exactly that context.
The Startalk subject was about a star giving birth, to be covered by television. And the host/talent manager asked: "Talaga? Ipapakita lahat? Pati ang paglabas ng bata sa puerta?" Now, we truly cannot understand how in the world that can be lewd, malicious, and gross.
Because, if we were to accept that Lolit's statement is lewd, malicious, and gross, then we would have to accept that childbirth is lewd, malicious, and gross. And, sorry, but we will never think that. We will always see childbirth as a miraculous act of creation!
For decades now, the public—particularly artists, the well-read, the liberal, and every regular citizen with a strong instinct for freedom of thought—has been questioning the existence of the MTRCB. To what extent can it mediate? Is its interference not, in fact, control over movie and television content? And, therefore, control over thought?
The MTRCB is obviously, from its name, a "classification" board. In other words, it is empowered to "classify" films and television shows and radio programs according to Adult, Restricted, General Patronage. This is necessary, we agree, to guide society through the many choices before it. But the Lolit Solis case is urgent proof that, in policy and in practice, the MTRCB is a censorship board.
If the MTRCB continues to function in this manner, and justifies its actions with its Implementing Rules and Regulations and the outdated legislation from the Marcos era that created it, then this government body should admit this much: In the Republic of the Philippines, which believes it's a democracy, in the year 2007, there is official mind control going on—and the MTRCB is the body tasked to do it.
The MTRCB is Big Brother.
It's the new millenium, is the MTRCB relevant? Does it make society better? Or is it a political tool, period? Note that all its members, from the chairperson down, are appointed by the President of the Philippines. In other words, they don't need to qualify as artists or thinkers or wise citizens. They just have to be close to the powers and, voila!, they have the power to reprimand, memo, embarrass, cut, ban, and suspend. Those are awesome powers that need to be earned—if they are needed at all in the new millenium.
ABS-CBN IS NO. 1 NETWORK, SAYS PEP POLL
"Wow!! Hanga ako sa PEP kahit GMA-7 ang partner nila sa website na ito, sport pa rin sila kung sino ang tunay na winner. I both watch the GMA-7 and ABS-CBN here in States (mahal nga eh!) pero mas marami talagang palabas na maganda ang channel 2 specially ang mga teledrama, kasi parang makakarelate ka sa mga kwento at pwedeng mangyari sa totoong buhay. Sa GMA puro pantaserye nakakasawa na di ba? Anyways, Goodluck sa 2 network. MORE POWER TO PEP!!"—posted by dimple_69 2007-04-16 18:06:06
