Comments for Emil Guillermo: AMOK!

Comment on California nurses call for investigation of alleged discriminatory hiring practices against Filipinos at SF’s St.Luke’s hospital by florence

florence — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:30:12 +0000

“… failure at the bargaining table.” how interesting to blame CNA for failure to reach agreement when CPMC’s attorney stated at the bargaining table “It’s not financial, it’s ideological”. By the way, ask any nurse who works in post partum about Gavin Newsom and his wife when they had their baby at CPMC. No Filipino nurses took care of the new family. The assignments were mysteriously changed so that only caucasian nurses were assigned.

Comment on California nurses call for investigation of alleged discriminatory hiring practices against Filipinos at SF’s St.Luke’s hospital by purple

purple — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:29:28 +0000

“The Filipinos are always related , or know each other, and that’s not good. You’re not to hire them.”—

I wonder what the strike rates for Filipinos are ? I’d guess higher, maybe much higher, than the average.

I’m sure that no one in management would ever try to find out something like that.

Comment on California nurses call for investigation of alleged discriminatory hiring practices against Filipinos at SF’s St.Luke’s hospital by florence

florence — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:10:12 +0000

I work at CPMC and while I’ve known for quite a while that administration is anti union I am shocked such blatant racism exists.

Comment on California nurses call for investigation of alleged discriminatory hiring practices against Filipinos at SF’s St.Luke’s hospital by Kevin McCormack

Kevin McCormack — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:18:29 +0000

The allegations made by CNA are ridiculous and without any basis in fact. We pride ourselves on our diverse hiring policies and longstanding commitment to promoting equal opportunity. I have no idea where CNA is getting its numbers but they are wrong. In 2007 63% of our nurses at St. Luke’s were Asian, today that number is 66%, so we are hiring more Asian RN’s at St. Luke’s than ever before. We do not know how many of our nurses are Filipino because we do not break down racial categories into ethnicity or country of origin. In fact the only data we have on ethnicity are self-reported by our employees using categories approved by the Federal Government. These claims by CNA are part of a pattern of outrageous statements intended to hide their own failure at the bargaining table. CPMC stands by its record as a great employer, one committed to hiring the best employees who reflect the diversity of our patients and our city.
Warren Browner, MD, MPH, CEO CPMC

Comment on California nurses call for investigation of alleged discriminatory hiring practices against Filipinos at SF’s St.Luke’s hospital by Jerry Miller

Jerry Miller — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:57:53 +0000

Thank God I haven’t been hospitalized very often in my 74 years, but when I have been, there were Filipino nurses sympathetic and efficient guardians of my recovery. I hear nonsense in that quote about patients not being able to communicate with foreign born nurses. Pure ignorant prejudice. Most likely that person does not know that English is spoken in the Islands as a lengua franca amid dozens of dialects. My perception was awakened when Marcos went on the media and addressed his nation in ENGLISH during the People Power demonstration.

Comment on Note from Emil Guillermo: Help,I’m a pioneer! by SF Muckraker

SF Muckraker — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:32:41 +0000

AAJA took a wrong turn when Doris Truong was elected president of the board. Given that students and so-called non-journalists* cannot vote for leadership, it is easy to see how this happened. The old guard voting for the old guard.

* Students, indies, bloggers and documentary filmmakers cannot vote. Only those in full-time corporate media may vote.

In regards to SF Gate being so desperate to attract readership through its horrendous comments section, here is a story that fortifies my assessment, just so you and your faithful readers don’t think I’m full of guano. http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=8395

An interesting quote from that article: “… anyone familiar with news comments sections is accustomed to reading racist attacks on a wide spectrum of groups, but particularly Latinos and undocumented immigrants.”

In regards to my synopsis that community journalism is the new way to get news, this event, The Evolving Landscape of Local Journalism (http://bit.ly/9aug10talk), acknowledges new media sidestepping corporate media. An interesting quote from the blurb: “As the San Francisco Chronicle continues to struggle and cuts reporting budgets, these new players are increasingly our source for original local news reporting.” Local news and ‘bloggers’ consistently scoop corporate media.

Getting back to AAJA, one of its objectives is to achieve parity in corporate media. When the organization developed, this was a priority to assure accurate representation and portrayal. What was unexpected is that in the internet age, corporate media is dying, so why would AAJA want parity with something that’s dead?

Hence, the just-elected AAJA leadership and the old skool mentality of the Association’s voting membership is not forward-thinking, and will likely continue to lag behind media trends. Asian Americans need to monitor the new crop of media, to assure that race sensitivity is intact, and that the AA community is efficiently and accurately covered.

Comment on Note from Emil Guillermo: Help,I’m a pioneer! by Amok

Amok — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:29:04 +0000

Well, I tend to agree with you. Corporate media is lost without a business plan as it foolishly tries to replicate the past by turning the web into a digital newspaper.
And AAJA, and other minority journalism organizations merely follow because their funding comes primarily from the corporate media, making the J organizations raison d’etre to be primarily a supplier of people to the corporate media.
Only now are some groups realizing they’ve got to retrain the troops. More sessions were devoted to new media, and not just to old tech news ideas like “computer-assisted reporting.”
(That’s opposed to typewriter assisted reporting?)
So the door wasn’t totally closed to the
“community media,” the bloggers, the indy news sites, the ethnic press, at this week’s AAJA convention.
In fact, Yahoo and Google seemed more prominent as sponsors at this event, more so than the TV networks, at least one of which did not even bother to show up.
Why should it? It had just laid off hundreds of workers.

Comment on Note from Emil Guillermo: Help,I’m a pioneer! by SF Muckraker

SF Muckraker — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:03:52 +0000

Congratulations for being old and honored. This sentence says a lot: “…choosing journalism may not have been the best choice.”

AAJA does not have a future if the organization stays with old ideas and old concepts about journalism. Well-connected local community-based independent journalism online and on-demand is the current way to get news, not from a few pyramid sources such as when AAJA first developed.

Unfortunately, AAJA has not stayed with the times and only considers corporate media as journalism, skipping all the other newsmakers, such as independent internet news sites, blogs, documentary filmmakers, etc.

SF Gate, for example, has cut staff so much that it has become an aggregate site, and probably retain readers because of its nasty comments section, which is considered one of the most belligerent on the internet, possibly stirred by SF Gate (aka SF Hate) moles to incite debate and hatred. This is corporate media at its worst and on its deathbed. This is not the future of journalism, and this is not where funders will invest.

Old journalists should probably fly the coop, if they haven’t already gotten canned, and let new or old new journalists take the helm with new media. Perhaps toil through sweat labor now, but it’s possible that later the funds will come in. At least there’s hope with new media, but there is little hope in corporate media.

Comment on Note from Emil Guillermo: Help,I’m a pioneer! by Jerry Miller

Jerry Miller — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:13:46 +0000

I was a consistent listener to All Things Considered when I was driving my car with buttons for KCRW and KPCC. Congrats on the honor. Your voice is needed now more than ever among the cacophony of commercials, silly noises passing for music, and hate provocateurs.

Comment on Conan O’Brien soars with 60 Minutes; Leno falls flat in Washington by Ramon

Ramon — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:50:22 +0000

Nice severance package. Bottomline – Leno is funny – O’Brien is not – best way to describe O’Brien “humor” is dumb/stupid – which I’m sure appeals to some people — but apparently not enough.