UNSOLICITED MALACANANG-BACKED TEXT CAMPAIGN MESSAGES
my colleagues in the industry and i are really pissed off with this malacanang-backed text message campaigns that extoll the "virtues" of team unity *barfs* and hit independents and genuine opposition (GO) candidates with such force that you wonder if these guys would "play fair" come may14.
nakakainis pa dito eh sabay-sabay na dadating sa amin yung computer-generated text messages na 'to (as vic agustin told us over lunch one time). once a day is already annoying but my god! they send us text messages almost every hour or at least 5 times a day on weekends.
one time i was already at boiling point, i texted back, "please stop sending me these messages. they're annoying." no, reply. i thought, bitch!
since another person confirmed that these are computer-generated, it gave me more courage to send/text expletives to the hapless machine just to let the steam out.
nung una kala ko one-time-big-time na naligaw na text eh. tapos habang may mga importanteng bagay ka na ginagawa (i.e. ambush interview), magtetext sila. tapos syempre babasahin mo habang nagiinterview ka kasi baka utos galing opisina yun, di ba? tapos ngali-ngali mo nang maibato cellphone mo nang mabasa mo: "Hanep talaga tong si tol Mike Defensor. 3 taong nanungkulan sa HUDCC at nagawa ang mga pabahay...blah blah...iba talaga ang manilbihan mula sa puso" or something to that effect, which is really puke-worthy.
i think some PR firm gave our numbers to malacanang to send us these holy-shit text messages everyday. or some PR firm sold our numbers to the TU machinery. nakakapagtaka kasi lahat kaming reporters same thing ang natatanggap at the same time. pag tinanong ko naman yung ibang kilala o kamag-anak ko, wala naman silang natatanggap.
some fucked up dude in TU is having a grand time raining these "libelous" messages.
mind you, hindi ako GO pero naiirita ako sa mga unsolicited text messages na 'to. and i doubt it if NTC would penalize whoever's behind this.
