2012 | Page 14 of 33 | CMFR

  • Post-disaster media event

    THE MEDIA have not tired of declaring, in the aftermath of any disaster, that adversity brings out the best in the Filipino. Like all generalizations it is only partly... Read more

  • The power of injustice

    SEEMINGLY AT work today across the professions is a closing of ranks so self-aggrandizing it perverts the nobler sense of fraternity. If it appears most marked among lawyers and... Read more

  • What is at stake?

    Editorial enforcement of checks and restrictions must oversee these movements between and among powerful institutions and the press. Otherwise, further “blurring of the lines” between the press and other... Read more

  • License to kill

    INTRODUCED IN the House of Representatives by Congressmen Angelo B. Palmones of AGHAM Party list and Lord Allan Jay Velasco of the lone district of Marinduque, House Bill 6391... Read more

  • The president and the news media

    IN APRIL President Benigno Aquino III addressed the annual general assembly of the Philippine Press Institute (ppi), our organization of newspapers, and ruffled plumes among our proud members as... Read more

  • Being FFFJ Counsel

    “FFFJ?” It’s the same old story. Rather, the same old reaction whenever I’m asked about my work as private prosecutor in media killing cases and I answer, “I’m here... Read more

  • Supreme Court denies alleged masterminds’ motion “with finality”

    The Supreme Court (SC) of the Philippines has denied with finality a petition seeking the dismissal of the murder charges against the alleged masterminds in the killing of journalist... Read more

  • Legal competency training manual for journalists

    Covering Philippine criminal proceedings is not easy. Lawyers and judges have a language of their own The extensive use of legal jargon in the courtroom can prevent anyone, including... Read more

  • Fear of FOI

    In some countries including the Philippines, officials apparently fear freedom of information (FOI) because they think it an instrument their rivals and competitors as well as the mass media... Read more

  • PJR Reports May-July 2012

    THERE’S an Ernest Hemingway story, “In Another Country,” in which a soldier recuperating from his wounds during World War I narrates his experience as an outpatient in an Italian... Read more



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