By the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) For more information please contact CMFR: (+63 2) 894-1314/894-1326/840-0903/840-0889 staff@cmfr-phil.org www.cmfr-phil.org www.twitter.com/cmfr THE CENTER for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) reiterates its warning, made in many other instances in the past, that media failure to regulate themselves will invite government intervention. It is in fact happening [...]

by The Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition 4 June 2010 When the leaders of the House of Representatives want a measure passed, we have seen them find a way. But when they want a measure aborted, they simply stay away and quibble about the absence of quorum. For 14 years, the 160 member-organizations of [...]

A statement by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) on the sixth month of the November 23 massacre of 32 journalists and media workers [[petition-1]]

Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility on the Agra order to drop the multiple murder charges against Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Governor Zaldy Ampatuan Zaldy and Mamasapano Mayor Datu Akmad Ampatuan in connection with the Ampatuan Massacre THE ORDER of acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra for state prosecutors to drop [...]

Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Resposibility (CMFR) on the ABS-CBN April 8 Story on the “Caluag Document” ABS-CBN erred in the manner in which it aired that fake document on the mental health of Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III. The error was not so much driven by bias as by a desire, [...]

Statement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ), the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) and the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) on the 5th anniversary of the  killing of Marlene Esperat FIVE YEARS have passed since Marlene Esperat was killed in Tacurong City in the southern Philippine province of Sultan Kudarat, [...]

The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) takes exception to ABS-CBN News Online’s interpretation of its March 3 statement, which it issued with the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), that we “slammed the media” for being “partly to blame for the slow progress of court cases” in the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan massacre. On [...]

Revised statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility and the Southeast Asian Press Alliance on the 100th day of the Ampatuan Massacre A hundred days have passed since the massacre of 32 journalists and media workers in Maguindanao, Southern Philippines, together with 26 others. The principal suspect has been indicted. But the petition [...]

A Joint statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) and the participants of the CMFR Human Rights Reporting Seminar last January 23, 2010 TWO MONTHS have passed since the worst incident of the killing of journalists and media workers in all of media history, and the worst election-related incident of violence since [...]

Condemning the problem of impunity in the Philippines, 47 members of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange Network (IFEX), appeal for justice in the horrible massacre of at least 28 journalists in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, the Philippines. IFEX is a global network of press freedom and free expression advocacy groups. The Manila-based Center for Media Freedom [...]