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Demeaning—again
JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and The Philippine Star for using as banner photo, a picture of Miss World Philippines candidates in their bikinis. Read more
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Local radio and TV owner-broadcaster charged with libel
A FORMER Digos city mayor filed more than 225 counts of criminal libel against an owner and broadcaster of a local radio and television station in Digos City, Davao... Read more
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Lumad killings: Who’s responsible?
THE KILLING of two Lumad leaders and an educator in Surigao del Sur on September 1 has brought to public attention accusations of human rights violations and harassments allegedly... Read more
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Setting the entertainment agenda
IN A previous monitor (“Entertainment trivia on the front pages”) posted September 16, the Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility (CMFR) noted the importance given by newspapers to the... Read more
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STATEMENT: Toward Resolving the Ortega Case
The deportation to the Philippines and subsequent arrest of the alleged masterminds in the 2011 killing of broadcaster and environmental advocate Gerardo Ortega have awakened hopes that... Read more
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Providing facts, challenging mistaken notions: Media and the commemoration of Martial Law
THERE CAN never be enough stories on martial law. Filipinos failed to form a Truth Commission as the South Africans did to establish consensus about the Apartheid. We have... Read more
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Torre de Manila controversy: Lack of context reduces issue to photobombing
FOLLOWING THE issuance of a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) by the Supreme Court (SC) last June, the Torre de Manila controversy surged back into the media. The battle between... Read more
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Newsroom oversight?
JEERS TO ABS-CBNnews.com for a false report on the reaction of University of the Philippines in Los Baños (UPLB) students to Vice President Jejomar Binay’s September 15, 2015 ... Read more
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Closing the Pandora’s Box—A Difficult Task
PRESIDENT AQUINO finally gave closure to the Mamasapano incident’s “alternative truth,” a controversy which the President himself publicly raised when he announced the government was probing another version of... Read more