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No Contest: Reporting Unopposed Candidates

CHEERS TO several media organizations for looking into and reporting on the phenomenon of candidates for various posts who are running unopposed — an issue crucial to the health... Read more

$81-Million Bank Heist: Unnecessary, Irrelevant Racial Reference

JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin, the Philippine Daily Inquirer and The Philippine Star for its repeated and often unnecessary and irrelevant racial reference to the suspects in the... Read more

Obit

Alfredo Rosario, 87 VETERAN JOURNALIST Alfredo Rosario died Sunday, March 20. He was 87. Rosario, who would have turned 88 on March 24, died in the Philippine Heart Center... Read more

Media Focus Still Limited to Presidential and Vice-Presidential Candidates

Discourse Analysis for the Second Monitoring Period (Feb. 21 to March 5) REPORTS ON the presidential and vice-presidential candidates dominated TV airspace three weeks into the official campaign period,... Read more

More Substance in the Presidential Debates

BY MOST accounts, the presidential debate held Sunday night was a better version of the first one the month before. Granting that the debate often bordered on sounding... Read more

SC Ruling on Poe’s Disqualification: Media Succumbed to Speculation and Leaks

IN OTHER countries, particularly the United States, the judges or members of juries tasked to decide on a court case are sometimes sequestered so that they will have... Read more

Voter Receipts: Redundant or Necessary?

NOT TOO many Filipinos are aware that the law requires the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to provide the voter a receipt of his or her vote. The Comelec... Read more

On the Campaign Trail

ATTACHED TO, or embedded in a candidate’s political campaign, reporters are forced to follow a set schedule, a task that can be repetitive and sometimes useless in terms of helping... Read more

Election Surveys: Beyond the Numbers and the “Horse Race”

SURVEY RESULTS on voter preferences are a staple of election reports, gaining wider public interest as the election nears. CMFR’s election monitors over the years have found that these... Read more

Disguising Ads as Editorial Content

JEERS TO three major dailies for passing off an advertisement as editorial content. On March 15, 2016, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Philippine Star, and the Manila Bulletin ran... Read more