The government behind the information barriers
The main story in the September 2006 issue of the PJR Reports focuses on a very timely issue: How the government itself has continued in violating the people’s right to information.
“At the start of the Arroyo presidency, the Philippines was being held up as among the most open democracies in Southeast Asia,” veteran journalist Yvonne T. Chua wrote in the article “Keeping Secrets.”
“Apparently,” she wrote. “Not anymore.”
Saying that Filipinos “has suffered major setbacks in obtaining state-held information in the past five years,” Chua wrote Malacañang no less leads the government institutions that have put up barriers.
Read more of Chua’s article here.
Other articles also available in the site, such as:
A columnist bashes homosexuals and gets a backlash
Not a Gay Affair
Venus L. Elumbre and Don Gil K. Carreon
TV current affairs program under the glare of the MTRCB
Censoring Documentaries
Nathan Lee
Review
The Lebanon-Israeli war through the eyes of
CNN and BBC
Demonizing the ‘Enemy’
Jamal Ashley Abbas
The list of all the articles for the September 2006 are available here.
You can also check other sections of PJR Reports posted online — the Speaking of Media, Monitor, Chronicle, Crisis, and Obit sections.
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