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Radio Broadcaster Convicted of Libel, Radio Station Ordered to Close in Gingoog City
CMFR/ Philippines- A radio blocktimer was convicted of libel while a local radio station was ordered to stop operations in Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental. Misamis Oriental is 1389 kilometers south of... Read more
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First Election Debate Goes Pfft: Coverage Filled with Sound bytes and Pull Quotes
GIVEN THE media hype and hoopla surrounding the holding of the first debate, the program went pfft, with little excitement to engage. What substance could have been drawn... Read more
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“Baby Snake”: TV5 Slithers Down the Bottom
JEERS TO TV5’s Aksyon Tanghali’s Balita-Serye segment for airing an extended report about a 37-year-old woman in Barangay Palkan, Polomolok, South Cotabato, who supposedly gave birth to a snake.... Read more
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Learning from EDSA
EVEN BEFORE the February 22, 1986 press conference called by then Minister of National Defense Juan Ponce Enrile and then Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Vice-Chief of... Read more
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EDSA 1: A Recollection
ON FEBRUARY 22, 1986, a Saturday, I was coming home exhausted from a Namfrel (National Movement for Free Elections) thanksgiving mass in Marikina. It was about 8 pm.... Read more
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Absent from EDSA
SOMETIME IN August 1985, I had to leave the country to be with my family in the US. It was a sabbatical away from work that my husband and... Read more
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2016 Elections: Tracking Local Politics
CHEERS TO Rappler for collating information regarding the plans for the 2016 elections of the members of the 16th congress. In “MAP: Where will members of Congress go... Read more
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Gratuitous link
JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for taking a cheap shot at the Aquino government with a headline that gratuitously links administration projects and brothels in the area. On... Read more
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Reviewing Party-list Performance
CHEERS TO ABS-CBNnews.com and ABS-CBN 2’s TV Patrol for its effort to evaluate the performance of the 2013 elected party-list representatives in the 16th Congress. On February 12, ABS-CBNNews.com published Gigi... Read more