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The Dengvaxia Debacle: The Volatile Mix of Politics, Health and a Failure of Science
ON NOVEMBER 29, France-based pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur posted on their website a warning about the risks of their anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia. Citing new findings, the company said:... Read more
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Davao Radio Broadcaster Threatened, Accused of Being Pro-Communist
CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A Davao City-based radio broadcaster received text messages that threatened her life. She reported that she was “accused of being pro-communist,” shortly after she criticized the... Read more
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Enough Echoing the PNP’s Press Releases
With so many questions left unanswered about the number of killings in the course of President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, some etched in the public mind for their horror... Read more
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Another Journalist Receives Death Threat
CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A journalist covering the judiciary for a national broadsheet received a death threat via SMS from an unknown source on 1 December 2017. The Manila Times... Read more
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Tabloid Columnist Accuses PTFoMS Director of Sending Death Threats; Task Force Director Denies Allegation
CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A tabloid columnist reported receiving death threats allegedly from the executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) after his articles criticizing the... Read more
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LIBEL WATCH: Journalist Held by Police, Another Charged, One Case Dismissed
CMFR/Philippines – Several journalists faced libel challenges in November. One broadcaster accused of libel was held by the police, while a libel complaint was filed against another, an... Read more
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Media Fails to Fact-Check Spokesperson
Screengrab from PTV4’s YouTube account. ON TUESDAY, December 5, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque faced media and announced the decision to declare the CPP-NPA as a terror group: “It’s not... Read more
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PDEA and Media Scored: Careless Reporting of a Drug Bust
THE MEDIA should find it easy enough to report a drug bust. Police reporters have years of experience chronicling such episodes. Ethical issues, however, hound this kind of reporting... Read more
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The Media and the Duterte Presidency: Impunity Acute and Benign, Fettered Flow of information
by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism THE PRESS in the... Read more