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Tulfo’s Bitag Media: The Amazing Start-Up Story

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News Commentary by Raïssa Robles

You thought change was coming, right?

The 60 million-peso ad contract, without public bidding, involving former Tourism Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo, her brothers and state television channel PTV4 is one example of such change.

The brazenness simply takes your breath away.

I made this short video to explain why.

Comments

  1. Another Wanda Tulfo-Teo anomaly?

    $2-million (P105-million) ‘Sports event deal did not undergo public bidding’

    Pump it up! DOT’s P105M ‘Strongest Man’ event is 100% overpriced, http://politics.com.ph/commission-on-steroids-dots-p105m-strongest-man-event-is-100-overpriced/

    ———

    DOT chief wants COA to decide on agency’s P60M ad deal with PTNI

    Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said on Wednesday that the agency has yet to receive the money that the media company owned by Ben Tulfo, brother of resigned Tourism Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo, reportedly planned to return.

    “Hindi pa nababalik (Not yet returned),” Puyat said in an interview at the Senate, “As of now, parang hindi pa.”

    – newsinfo.inquirer. net/995802/dot-chief-wants-coa-to-decide-on-agencys-p60m-ad-deal-with-ptni

    Duterte Double Standard (DDS)

    Since Wanda Tulfo-Teo resigned or was fired, why not SG Calida?

  4. Just out of curiosity, I heard somewhere that it was really scandalous to spend government money to advertise in a program only a few people watch. So, how popular really is the program? What is its TV rating?

    • It’s a very popular “crime” program.

      But it’s the wrong program to advertise tourist ads because of that.

  6. look at what Mon (Ramon) Tulfo wrote today
    http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/989000/setting-the-record-straight
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    In the article Ramon Tulfo said She was clueless that Ben would get the lion’s share, so to speak, of the P60 million advertising contract.”

    Fortunately Wanda also claimed that It was PTV4 who talked to the TULFO, but there are documents, which shows otherwise

    Also in the article Ramon Tulfo wrote “Wanda, being older than Ben, wanted to save him even if it would put her in hot water, resulting in her eventually losing her job.”

    hindi ba, Sabi ni Ramon Tulfo, clueless daw si Wanda about the PTV4 deal with the tulfo?

    In short, everyone in the Tulfo clan is trying to wash their hands.

    ABS-CBN also has a topic about the Tulfo clan (fued kuno), Which mentioned that the Tulfo did not say that they will be willing to give back the 60M

    Read it here
    http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/10/18/ulyanin-topacio-hits-back-at-mon-tulfo

    • this wandawoman (term borrowed from parekoy) is too old to be clueless! too decorated to be clueless, dating woman of the year pa naman yata siya, magaling daw kasi. was.

      being clueless in not qualification for the job of being DOT secretary, dapat aware siya, alert and on top of things that concern tourism, its budget foremost.

      maliban na lang kung napuno ng lumot ang isip niya at naging clueless siya, padalaw-dalaw kasi sa cesspool that is boracay, he, he, he.

  7. Trillanes taunts Tulfos amid Teo’s resignation

    According to dzBB’s Nimfa Ravelo, Trillanes said the Tulfos could still continue their public service programs but added that the titles should be revised

    Trillanes played on the titles of the Tulfo’s programs saying they should be changed to “Nabitag si Tulfo” or “Isumbong mo si Tulfo.”

    The senator, a staunch critic of PRRD, had long been at the receiving end of the Tulfos’ commentaries

    http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/652669/trillanes-taunts-tulfos-amid-teo-s-resignation/story/

  8. @Raissa make the transition a little bit longer hindi kasi mabasa (mga 3 to 5 secs) :)

    Anyway … Ang Bitag na Bitag!

      • yay! learning much and learning still, congrats po, raissa. improving po yong pagvivideo skills ninyo.

        at please lang po, gaya ng ingon ni sam, make transition longer po dahil reading and thinking and grasping and understanding take a bit of time to digest, settle and assimilate. plus the visuals, those exploding thingy, distracted me po. thanks again.

  9. PTV4 should also be investigated for their role in this scam, for this is indeed a SCAM!

    • aba, si andanar yata ang may-ari ng ptv4, and maybe even the overseer of the scam.

  10. BITAG = trap.

    » synonyms and related words:
    net
    n.
    1. lambat
    2. a big fishing net: pukot, pamukot
    3. a mosquito net: kulambo, muskitero
    4. a hair net: hernet, lambat sa buhok (ulo)
    5. a net for catching butterflies, birds, locusts, etc.: sakyod
    6. a trap or snare: silo, bitag, patibong
    7. remaining amount after deduction, free from deductions: neto

    – lambating P60M
    -kulamboing P60M
    -hair netting P60M
    -sakyoding P60M
    -bitagging P60M, AND
    -netoing P60M

    ! ! !

    P50M or more under Plunder Law = bitag nga!

    Senate to investigate if there is or was an illegal neto

    Ombudsman to investigate who profited in pamukot

    BITAG MEDIA – meaning: Media TRAP. How? – catch lucrative MEDIA items like fish.

    Where to catch the FISH via Media news items? – Business NEWS ADS promotions.

    . . . and get P60M money in payment for it.

    A bigger TRAP – the PLUNDER LAW R.A. No. 7080 to CATCH plunderers.

    . . . bitag is also like BIHAG – captive; captivate, capture, abduct, kidnap. In short, HULi.

    hu hu li net – O holy net the monies are brightly shining
    It is the net of our dear Savour’s birth
    Long lay the weird in sin and error pining
    Till it appeared and the souse felt its worth

    he he

    • the tulfos, caught by the web of their own making, bad. got stuck! brother, sister, we are one and our kalbaryo has just begun, in the spirit we are gone, we cant live forever . . . cheers po choir master, leona.

    • young UP bloke still has many choices to go. life is a journey. you win some, you lose some, most important is that UP student gets up and dust himself, and not spend too much time wallowing in pity and feeling sorry for himself.

      he’ll only be young once, not good to waste it in recriminations. I’d say, he ought to get up and boogie! celebrate he’s alive, not dead, not shot in the head, not ejk-ed like that student kian. here’s hoping po UP student will grow into a better person, more discerning.