Archive for October 4th, 2007


‘Desperate Housewives’ apologises over Philippines racial slur

Published October 4th, 2007 in Entertainment and Events | 4 Comments »

Following the uproar over the racial punchline about Philippine medical schools in the latest episode of Desperate Housewives, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and the producers of Desperate Housewives series finally apologised a day after Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said that that dialogue is considered a racial slur. The apology was sent through ABS-CBN’s bureau in the United States and aired Thursday by its cable news channel, ANC.

As I have said earlier in my previous blog, for sure this issue would certainly create a stir. Actually stir is a subdued word for that, a storm should be the word. We cannot really downplay the power of the internet, and the power of blogging! Lots of fellow pinoy bloggers poured out their disgusto over the slur. The ABS station was flooded by calls from angry viewers and an online petition by a fellow pinoy blogger in New York, which raised more than 30,000 names, threatened to boycott the show. (more…)