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Vigilantes or Policemen: No Follow Up

JEERS TO several media organizations for their failure to follow up the case of two policemen accused of murdering an anticrime crusader early this month. On Oct. 9,... Read more

Making Sense of the Surveys: Keep Suspects Alive

THE NUMBERS are out. The Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey for the third quarter of 2016 revealed that the majority, or 84 percent, of 1,200 respondents were satisfied... Read more

Carrying Terrorists’ Message

JEERS TO ABS-CBN 2 for airing a video that in violation of established protocols in the coverage of terrorism, disseminated terrorist propaganda. The Oct. 11 exclusive report “Mga... Read more

The Drug War from the Perspective of Those Covering It

CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for its three pieces on the administration’s drug war. Written from the perspective of the media people covering it, the folio of... Read more

The Executive Order on FOI: A Freedom of Exceptions?

TWENTY-NINE (29) years since the first Freedom of Information (FOI) bill was filed, the transparency measure still has not made it to law. Not surprisingly, President Rodrigo Duterte’s... Read more

Obit

Antonio Mendoza Reyes, 74 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER Antonio Mendoza Reyes died peacefully in his sleep after a lingering illness Thursday, October 6. He was 74. Reyes was the publisher... Read more

Duterte and the Media: On the Rocks (Updated)

A YEAR into his presidency, Rodrigo Duterte’s speeches remain peppered with expletives and tirades, the most controversial of which have been directed at respected institutions: the church, international human... Read more

Documenting Social Media Abuse

CHEERS TO Rappler for its investigation of the fake social media accounts, trolls and bogus sites during the elections and its application as propaganda afterwards. The misuse and... Read more

Information Access: On Paper but Not in Practice

CHEERS TO the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) for reporting the failure of some government agencies to respond to its requests for information on the conduct of... Read more

The Press and Public Officials: Apart Because Different

PERHAPS, THE public sees people in the news as all cut from the same cloth. Whether they’re working journalists, or elected or appointed to public office, the public stage... Read more