media – David Haldane

May 13, 2025

Journalism’s Jam

By David Haldane May 12, 2025 It’s not all their fault. By IT, I mean the loss of public trust in legacy media and authoritarian […]

February 3, 2025

Hitting the Proverbial Jackpot

By David Haldane February 3, 2025 The phone messages always start the same. “Congratulations,” they say, or words to that effect. “Your book […]

December 16, 2024

A Return to Old-Fashioned Journalism at the LA Times?

By David Haldane Dec. 16, 2024 I’ve been meaning to write this column for a couple of months. My hesitation was because it involves […]

September 2, 2024

Here We Go Again!

By David Haldane Sept. 2, 2024 I awoke this morning to a headline that seemed strangely familiar. “Two more mpox cases detected!” it […]

August 19, 2024

Civil War in America?

By David Haldane Aug. 19, 2024 The most unsettling thing is the familiarity. It begins with police fighting an unruly gang of protestors on […]

July 7, 2024

Speaking English in the Philippines

By David Haldane July 8, 2024 It’s both a blessing and a curse. A double-edged-sword, as they say, a blade that cuts both ways. What […]

June 10, 2024

Ode to a Good Friend

By David Haldane June 10, 2024 I woke up this morning to the kind of news no one wants to hear. “My papa […]

February 19, 2024

The Flop Heard ‘Round the World

By David Haldane Feb. 19, 2024 A Filipino comedian told a joke that flopped. And now the universe is talking about Taylor Swift and […]

November 23, 2023

One-Sided News

By David Haldane Nov. 23, 2023 I had just put the finishing touches on a three-minute video presentation for an annual gathering of would-be […]

November 16, 2023

Hitler on Lazada

By David Haldane Nov. 16, 2023 It felt like someone had yanked out my kidneys. Unable to sleep, I’d opened my cell phone to Facebook […]

October 5, 2023

Tik Toking Truants

By David Haldane Oct. 5, 2023 They’re a common sight online. Tik Tokers gone tall. Teenagers courting turmoil. Bad ones boosting boundaries. A new study […]

August 17, 2023

Barbie Brouhaha

By David Haldane Aug. 17, 2023 I went to see Barbie because it almost got banned in the Philippines. The problem, it turns out, […]