Michael V. and his illustration of a dying SAF commando which he posted on Instagram on Friday.
Michael V. used his little-known skills as an illustrator to pay his respects to the 44 members of the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force who died in Mamasampano, Maguindanao on Sunday.
The comedian posted on Instagram a sketch of a mortally wounded SAF commando lying on the cornfield of Barangay Pidsandawon, viewing pictures of his family on his phone as he bled to his death.
“One of the heartbreaking stories I heard is about a fallen SAF who died viewing his family’s photos on his phone,” Michael V. said in the caption.
“Service. Honor. JUSTICE,” he added, ending his message with three hashtags: “#Salute #Fallen44 TruthforThe Fallen44.”
The post has received over 5,000 likes from the comedian’s followers as of Saturday morning.
Michael V. shares his artworks to his 179,000 Instagram followers from time to time. Two weeks ago, he paid tribute to Pope Francis with the fan art below.
TV5 has filed an official complaint against SkyCable with the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) for failing to air TV5’s signal for over two hours on December 13, 2014. There was also a period during this erratic airing when TV5 on SkyCable fluctuated and was interchanged with AksyonTV.
Media monitoring records from The Nielsen Company (Philippines), Inc. verified this incident in a report that said, “The TV Events team has confirmed that there was indeed a signal loss to TV5 on our Sky Cable recordings. Per standard procedure, our TV Events team used a backup recording using free-to-air sources to encode the missed airings. Total off-air time was from 14:10:20 to 16:47:55 or 2 hours, 37min and 35 seconds. This was monitored from our metro manila monitoring site.”
Furthermore, Nielsen reported that “there were 10 other free-to-air channels that we monitor that were affected by the loss of signal, but they were only off air by 7 minutes. These channels were NBN, 9TV, GNTV, ABS-CBN SPORTS+ACTION, RJTV, 9TV, IBC, ABS-CBN, GMA, and Aksyon TV.”
TV5 head of programming Dan de Padua stated, “On December 13, 2014, SkyCable failed to carry the TV5 signal for over two and a half hours, thus adversely affecting our channel viewership and depriving the public of an important news and entertainment source.”
TV5, through MediaQuest Holdings, Inc., a media conglomerate owned by the Beneficial Trust Fund
InterAksyon.com is the online news portal of TV5.
Michael Jackson. (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES | A California state appeals court on Friday denied Michael Jackson’s family its latest attempt to reverse a jury’s decision that cleared concert promoter AEG Live of negligence in the singer’s death.
The three-judge panel ruled that Jackson’s mother and children did not have standing for a new trial after their attorneys argued last week that AEG Live was liable for Jackson’s treatment, and that jury instructions were confusing and not wide enough in scope.
A Los Angeles jury in 2013 cleared privately held AEG Live, the organizer of Jackson’s ill-fated 50 “This Is It” comeback concerts in London, of negligently hiring cardiologist Conrad Murray as Jackson’s personal physician.
The sensational five-month trial offered a glimpse into Jackson’s private life and final days in which Murray administered surgical anesthetic propofol to the “Thriller” singer as a sleep aid.
The child star turned King of Pop, who set the world dancing but whose musical genius was overshadowed by a bizarre lifestyle and sex scandals, died in 2009 at age 50 in Los Angeles from an overdose of the powerful anesthetic.
The lawsuit against AEG Live was filed by Katherine Jackson, 84, and the singer’s three children.
The Los Angeles Superior Court jury found that Murray was sufficiently qualified for the job he was hired to do as general practitioner.
Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011 for Jackson’s death and served half of his 4-year sentence in a Los Angeles prison.
Celebrity couple Regine Tolentino and Lander Vera-Perez opened "It's Showtime" on Friday with a slow dance to the tune of Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud."
