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Water Under The Bridge: Sidelining Lascañas’ Testimony

IS THE involvement of Rodrigo Duterte, then mayor of Davao City, in the killings perpetrated by the Davao Death Squad a dead issue? A member of the DDS... Read more

Jamer Earl Breslin, 88

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING COLUMNIST Jamer Earl “Jimmy” Breslin died from pneumonia Sunday, March 19. He was 88. According to his wife and a former city councilwoman, Ronnie Eldridge, Breslin... Read more

Call for Nominations: UP Gawad Plaridel 2017

THE UNIVERSITY of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) is accepting nominations for the annual UP Gawad Plaridel. Individuals and institutions may nominate Filipino media practitioners who have... Read more

Reforming Government Media

By Luis V. Teodoro THE REFORM of the government media system mostly consisting of radio and television networks has been tried at least once. But an announcement of... Read more

CA Rejects Yasay: Media Follow Paper Trail

“I AM a Filipino citizen. I am not an American, I am not a dual citizen, I am not stateless. I am a Filipino citizen, and I am a... Read more

Looking Into Land Conversation

PHILIPPINE POPULATION growth which has not abated urges a policy discussion about land use. People occupy space, with a measure of quantity for quality of life. Unfortunately, this has... Read more

Tabloid Columnist Gunned Down in Masbate

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Two unidentified men on a motorcycle shot dead a columnist for Remate, Joaquin Briones, in Milagros, Masbate around 8 a.m. on March 13. He was also... Read more

War, Peace and Maternal and Child Health in the ARMM

“War, Peace and Maternal and Child Health in the ARMM,” is published in the social media news site Women Writing Women. This was first submitted to Women’s Peace Table.... Read more

Senator in Peril: Covering Leila De Lima’s Arrest

POLITICS IS dirty. But nothing in the past could rival the tawdriness and cruelty of the campaign to bring down Senator Leila de Lima, driven by key members of... Read more

A Journalism of Consent

By Luis V. Teodoro IN HIS book Public Opinion (1921), the US journalist and public intellectual Walter Lippmann argued that for democracy to work, the consent of the governed... Read more