random points

• media and academe = have the highest intolerance to falsehood (Chief Justice Reynato Puno)
• patronage politics = politics of the worst kind precisely because it exploits the material deprivation of the many (Prof. Randy David)
• charity politics = a variant of patronage politics where politicians provide gifts in cash or in kind to the marginalized (in our case, the majority) in order to widen and deepen his/her base of support, and generate votes in the process; such brand of politics doesn't empower, it emasculates