Entertainment is a leisure activity consisting of an event and an audience that views the event and participates. This participation can be subtle, as in Theatres: Film, Opera or stageshows, or Orchestral symphony concerts wherein the applause due the performance or performing artists would be bad manners. In contrast, the sports entertainment industry feeds off audience participation— who can imagine the strange event attending a pro-wrestling bout, basketball or baseball game without cheering or booing the participants would experentially being happy.

The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry, and one distinction between what is meant by the term is the voluntary participation of the party being entertained, which may be passive (Opera) or active (Frantic shoot-em-up computer games) and the whole gamut of industry supported diversions in between (Baseball, Concerts, Football, Books, Television, film , striptease, and events like Karaoke).

Recreation, play, reading, and art appreciation may in some instances be confused with entertainment, but the difference is elementary—entertainments take two or more— even if one of the participants is a programmer for the obsolescent Amiga computer system who now happens to be deceased. Without the 'performance' of the artist and the participation of the viewer the event would and could not occur.

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Journalists Pay Tribute To Fallen Colleagues In Philippines
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:14:17 -0000
Journalists pray for murdered members of the Philippine media in front of the radio station dxRZ of the Radio Mindanao Network on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 in Zamboanga City. Two RMN broadcasters, Dennis Cuesta and Martin Roxas, were killed in separate attacks last week in the Philippines; bringing to 97 the number of journalists killed in line of duty since President Gloria Arroyo assumed power in 2001. The Philippines is one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. Many Filipino journalists are also being harassed, coerced and intimidated because of the news they report. (Mindanao Examiner Photo)
'U.S. Envoy Lying'; Critics Hit U.S. Hand in GRP-MILF Peace Talks
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:36:52 -0000
After a High Court justice branded as "patently illegal" the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain, the U.S. Ambassador was quick to deny any involvement in the aborted signing of the pact. But critics have pointed to the prominent role that the U.S. had played in the GRP-MILF peace negotiations. United States Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney was quick to deny any involvement in the aborted signing of the agreement. Based on news reports, Kenney said she was merely invited to witness the signing of the MOA-AD by the peace panels of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). RONALYN V. OLEA, Bulatlat
P30-m overpricing of ballots uncovered
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:29:07 -0000
PRESS Secretary Jesus Dureza yesterday revealed a foiled attempt to overprice by P30 million the cost of printing the ballots for the recent election in Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. A well-entrenched syndicate at the National Printing Office was the culprit, said Dureza, who oversees the NPO as one of the agencies under the Office of the Press Secretary. Dureza said that upon assuming his post as press secretary last June 16, he discovered the overpricing attempt and that he immediately took steps to stop it, with the full knowledge of President Arroyo. "I was shocked to know, at the start of my review, that I was immediately confronted with a brazen attempt by some group to push for a highly excessive, overpriced and anomalous contract in the printing of ARMM ballots for the Aug. 11 elections," Dureza said. Roy Pelovello
Imposing nationalism
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:23:17 -0000
Have the sorry effects of brain drain seeped into the halls of Congress? House Bill 4580 seeks to require health workers (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, midwives, physical therapists, nutritionists) as well as other professionals (engineers, teachers, sailors, accountants, interior designers, criminologists, librarians, guidance counselors and even master plumbers) to render their services in the Philippines for two years before exploring opportunities abroad. Rep. Ignacio Arroyo, principal author of the bill, hopes this measure would address the exodus of (health) workers which could lead to a paralysis of the country's health system. The bill has been criticized by labor groups. "We consider the bill absolutely unfair and highly discriminatory, because it singles out registered professionals," said Trade Union Congress of the Philippines secretary-general and former Senator Ernesto Herrera. Editorial, Manila Standard
Lim ousted as Estrada party president
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:15:47 -0000
MANILA Mayor Alfredo Lim resigned as president of the Partido ng Masang Pilipino party yesterday after the group's chairman and his close ally, former President Joseph Estrada, announced his resignation Tuesday night. "With due respect, consistent with your recent public pronouncement that I have resigned from the PMP, I am therefore tendering my irrevocable resignation from the said party retroactive from the date of your announcement," Lim said in a statement. But he said his resignation would not change his close relationship with Estrada as a friend. The party said Estrada removed Lim because he had been offended by his forcible closure of the Vitas slaughterhouse in Tondo, which is owned by the family of Manila Councilor Dennis Alcoreza. But a source said the rift between Lim and Estrada started when Lim found out that an Estrada-endorsed officer in the mayor's office was making money on questionable deals. Fel V. Maragay, Gigi Muñoz David, Jing Villamente, Manila Standard
MILF radicals declare all-out war against govt
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:11:06 -0000
THE Moro rebel commander who led a bloody rampage in Lanao del Norte and Saranggani declared "all-out war" against the government yesterday, saying his fighters were willing to die in battle. Abdurahman Macapaar of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, also known as Commander Bravo, taunted the military and said his mujahedeen, or holy warriors, were willing to engage them in firefights anytime. "We are prepared to trade fire with them until we are decimated. If they cannot finish us, we will finish them," Bravo said over Radio Mindanao Network. "We are prepared to kill, we are prepared to be killed." He said the attacks on Christian towns in the provinces of Lanao del Norte and Saranggani on Monday that left 38 people dead were led by mujahedeen angered by an aborted land deal with the government. "What the Muslims want is Islamic justice in Mindanao," he said. "In the eyes of Allah we are not terrorists," he said, reacting to accusations by some government officials and senators that he and his rebel unit no longer were following the chain of command.

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