2013 | Page 19 of 32 | CMFR
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Appeal to take necessary actions against a Zamboanga del Norte police officer (UPDATED)
The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) wrote the Department of Interior and Local Government to to take necessary actions against a police director involved in unjustly arresting... Read more
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Party-list rep turned mayoral candidate interrupts broadcast
CMFR/Philippines – A radio blocktimer received threats after an outgoing party-list representative running for mayor of Tacloban City barged into his radio booth and verbally attacked him last 26... Read more
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Cabanatuan mayor, men allegedly harass TV crew
CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A cameraman and a driver-technician from a local television station in Cabanatuan City reported being harassed by the incumbent mayor last 27 April 2013. The mayor... Read more
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AM Radio News Media Coverage of the 2013 Senatorial and Party-list Elections: Radio was focused on personalities and controversies (March 19-April 12)
During the period monitored, a number of non-election issues edged out reporting on the elections. When radio did report the elections, coverage was hardly different from that of previous... Read more
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Gunman in Ortega slay convicted
The Puerto Princesa City court convicted of murder the killer of broadcaster and environmentalist Gerardo “Gerry” Ortega last 7 May 2013. Read more
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Ortega family on the gunman’s conviction
A statement from Michaella Ortega, May 8, 2013 CELLPHONES AND gadgets cost more than my father’s life. This remains to be the main takeaway from the case against... Read more
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Police arrest broadcaster before filing libel complaint
CMFR/PHILIPPINES — On the 20th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day last 3 May 2013, a police director in Dipolog City arrested a radio blocktime commentator for allegedly libelous... Read more
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“Making” democracy
THE CLAIM that free expression is not absolute falls regularly from the lips of people who’re basically hostile to it, among them certain members of the 15th Congress who... Read more
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“Making” democracy
THE CLAIM that free expression is not absolute falls regularly from the lips of people who’re basically hostile to it, among them certain members of the 15th Congress who... Read more
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A Reminder
THE NEW York-based Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) Impunity Index, for the fourth year in a row, has ranked the Philippines the third worst country in the... Read more
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