Criticism
The term "Imperial Manila" has received criticism especially among people living in Metro Manila. Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, the president of United Opposition, said that the statement used by President Arroyo in her State of the Nation Address was unfair to local governments and businesses in Metro Manila and accused her of "acting imperial," saying:
| “ | The statement about the provinces being controlled by Imperial Manila was meant to play to the galleries. The reality, however, is that the local governments--the entire country--are being held hostage by Imperial Arroyo. | ” |
Binay cited the use of the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA), a form of funding for local governments, as a political tool by the Arroyo administration to reward loyal local political leaders by releasing it on time, and to punish those who do not support her by delaying its release.
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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men’s genius. By virtue of style, criticism can itself become literature. But usually this occurs only when the writer is acting as critic of his own work or as outrider to his own poetics, when the criticism of Coleridge is work in progress or that of T.S. Eliot propaganda.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.... Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)