Philippine MEDIA in DEEP SHIT Part 2

July 9, 2007

Ms. MARIA RESSA
News and Public Affairs
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation
Mother Ignacia Avenue, Quezon City


Dear Ms Ressa,

I am sending you copy of my book, “The PRESIDENT and Her MEN KISS the ASS of RAMON TULFO,” an expansion and updated version of my first book written in 2004, “Liars, Intimidators and Extortionists in Philippine Media.”

(It entered my mind to send the book to you when you were yet with CNN but gave up the idea because the book is parochial, referring only to Media in Philippine setting. But now that you are very much involved in Philippine Media, I think it is now okay to send you the book).

The book documents the Philippine’s WORST Long-Term ABUSERS of MEDIA POWER like the TULFO Brothers, known for their LIES, INTIMIDATION and EXTORTION, Rey LANGIT for SMUGGLING and Philippine Star Managing Editor Antonio F. KATIGBAK for EXTORTION, among others.

The book also devotes a chapter on a columnist (he brags he is a Ph. D.) who, failing to get the Bureau of Customs Commissioner as his client (i. e., that the columnist be appointed the Commissioner’s PR and Crises Manager), used 95%, for several months, of his column attacking the Customs Commissioner.

For over two years already, the book is known to Officers and Members of the National Press Club and many top media professionals. But it has become very clear to me that not one of these top media professionals is brave enough to mention in their writings or broadcasts even just the title of the book, much more the Lies, Intimidations and Extortions of the TULFO Brothers, prompting me to write (to disseminate through the Internet) papers like

“Philippine MEDIA will ALWAYS BE in DEEP SHIT,” (for as long as the TULFO Brothers are Active in Philippine Print, Radio and TV) irreverently revealing, among others, that “RANDY DAVID, in trying to hide his fear of the TULFO Brothers, became like the TULFOS: BOBO and LIAR” and that ‘KORINA SANCHEZ & Company FEAR the TULFOS!!!”


I am also sending you several papers on the Abuse of MEDIA Power by the TULFO Brothers.

That the TULFO Family is a Family of ABUSIVE Media Professionals engaged in propagating LIES and in INTIMIDATION and in EXTORTION is reinforced by the recent (mid-April, 2007) report of ABS-CBN News that

a son of RAMON TULFO was involved in a P1,000,000.00 extortion on a business owner threatened to be exposed in a TV show being produced by the TULFO son.

This very recent SHAMEFUL development in Philippine Media involving a TULFO is clear proof of the VERY DEEP SHIT Philippine Media is in. It is very clear that this corrupting SICKNESS to Abuse Media Power to SPREAD LIES for EXTORTION has seeped deeply into the Blood of the TULFO Family such that a second generation of the TULFOS, starting with PATRICK, a son of Ramon TULFO, has NOT ONLY JOINED but was already CAUGHT in the act of LYING, INTIMIDATING and EXTORTING like the Four TULFO Brothers pictured in my book as LIARS, INTIMIDATORS and EXTORTIONISTS.

Many Media Professionals intimated to me that Many in the Media Profession ENVY the TULFOS for having been SUCCESSFUL in ENRICHING themselves through ABUSE of MEDIA POWER!!!

That is how SICK Philippine MEDIA is!!!

I have written not only to media organizations (e.g., National Press Club, Publishers Association of the Philippines ) but also to Owners/Management/Editors of the media establishments for whom the TULFOS work as media professionals. I called these Media Leaders’ attention to the ABUSE of MEDIA POWER by the TULFOS and urged them to fulfill their obligation to TELL the TRUTH to their Audience, the Filipino People.

ALL My Letters were Totally Ignored. It is like Writing, Demonstrating and Shouting to Illiterates, Blinds and Deafs.

Sometime in September-October 2006, I wrote to several Radio-TV Anchor Persons connected with ABS-CBN and ANC about this TULFO MEDIA POWER ABUSE Problem (please see attached copy of letter to Che-Che Lazaro. Similar letters were sent to Ricardo “Dong” Puno, Tina Monzon-Palma, Korina Sanchez, Pia Hontiveros and Mike Enriquez of GMA-7).

Only Dong Puno acted on it, scheduling me and Ramon TULFO to appear in his TV show “VIEWPOINTS.” Unfortunately, two hours before the scheduled show, Ramon TULFO, for unknown reasons, backed out.

Among the TV shows in ABS-CBN-ANC, the one of Che-che Lazaro, “MEDIA in FOCUS” seems most appropriate to tackle the

PUZZLE and MYSTERY: How come, despite being known as LIARS, INTIMIDATORS and EXTORTIONISTS, the TULFO Brothers, particularly Ramon, Raffy and Erwin, are considered as PRIZED COLUMNISTS (e.g. of Philippine Daily Inquirer and PEOPLE’S Tonight) and radio-TV anchors, hosts and commentators?

Probably your program hosts can invite the Editors, Management and Editors of Philippine Daily Inquirer and Philippine Journalists to enlighten the Filipino People why they consider RAMON and ERWIN TULFO PRIZED COLUMNISTS despite their being known to be LIARS, INTIMIDATORS and EXTORTIONISTS.

The same question may be asked of the Owners and Management of the media organizations for which RAFFY, BEN and Ramon son PATRICK TULFO work as media professionals.

Thank you


Very truly yours,


Ning Santos