CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

This Week in Media (January 24 to 28, 2022)

ON THE pandemic front, media reported this week the pilot run of vaccinations for children aged 5 to 11 to start on February 4 and the approval for public... Read more

This Week in Media (January 17 to 21, 2022)

MORE AND more bad news top the end of the first month of 2022 – the continuing increase of COVID cases across all island groups, the death of two... Read more

ANC spotlights Facebook campaign spending, points to loopholes in Comelec’s rules

CHEERS TO ANC’s Rundown for expanding the discussion on the more significant role of social media in the election campaign. Read more

Rappler answers FAQs on Marcos Jr.s’ disqualification cases

CHEERS TO Rappler for its report that explained what may happen if Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is disqualified from running in the 2022 polls. The report cited experts and reviewed... Read more

Drug war victims: Exhumed bodies dramatize need to preserve the record of government violence and injustice

CHEERS TO Rappler for its report on the cold December morning when the bodies of some victims killed during the government’s drug war had to be exhumed from the... Read more

No vax, no ride mess: GMA echoes PNP’s one-sided positive assessment

JEERS TO GMA News Online’s story on the controversial “no vax, no ride” policy, which relied solely on the police and their assessment of the first day of its... Read more

Journalist threatened over report on Rodriguez ambush

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A reporter for a tabloid, Hataw D’yaryo ng Bayan, was harassed and threatened online over his coverage of a recent Rizal killing. Read more

F. Sionil Jose, 97

F. SIONIL JOSE, considered the most widely-read Filipino author in the English language, passed away last January 6 while awaiting an angioplasty operation at the Makati Medical Center. Read more

This Week in Media (January 10 to 14, 2022)

ADDING TO the grim start of 2022, the second week of the year saw the steady rise in COVID-19 cases, breaching the three million mark within less than two... Read more

Report on Comelec hacking flawed — but flags Election 2022 digital vulnerabilities

JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for its breaking news report on the alleged hacking of Comelec’s servers, which it claimed to have verified. But the report did not detail... Read more