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Social change and the crisis of information

INFORMATION IS what the Reproductive Health (RH) and Freedom of Information (FOI) bills are all about. The first would provide women with information on their own bodies—which for too... Read more

FOI: foiled again

AS THE 15th Congress prepared to adjourn on Dec. 22 for the year-end holidays, the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill remains stalled in the legislative process. Read more

Court grants petition of alleged mastermind in Ortega slay (UPDATED)

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – As the press was commemorating the third year of the Ampatuan (Maguindanao) Massacre last 23 November 2012, the Court of Appeals in Manila was granting an alleged... Read more

Courtesy of the Brits: An Inquiry into the State of the Press

Leave it to the Brits to respond to a crisis with gravitas. Perhaps, to a fault, as suggested by Alan Cowell in his column on Page Two of the... Read more

Violence in Abra

CHEERS TO Vera Files for a report on Abra's culture of violence, which intensifies during elections. Read more

Labor laws

JEERS TO Malaya Business Insight for a one-sided and incomplete October 25, 2012 banner story on Philippine employment laws. Read more

The price of (limited) success

EVERY PHILIPPINE President since Marcos has been critical of the press and has demanded that it behave in a manner acceptable to government. Marcos’ main complaint, as it was... Read more

FOI Bill: Certify Urgent!

THE FREEDOM of Information bill (FOI) in the Senate and in the House of Representatives has advanced despite the odds, having passed the respective committees. FOI is now... Read more

An underhanded law

THE PRESIDENT’S remark that proper news practitioners should have no reason to worry if the Right of Reply Law passes is not only patronizing but also inversely misleading. It... Read more

PNoy’s thing with the media

YES, ONE isn’t quite sure yet what word it is to describe this strange weight that seems to bear down on President Benigno S. Aquino III’s relationship with the... Read more