CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

Third NCR ECQ: Media holds back on criticism of government unpreparedness

JEERS TO the media for failing to question the government’s lack of preparedness in implementing the third enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in NCR plus during the pandemic. Having seen... Read more

This Week in Media (JULY 26 to 30, 2021)

IT WOULD have been an entirely different week without the country’s first ever Olympic gold win by athlete Hidilyn Diaz. In a week darkened by storm clouds and drenched... Read more

First Olympic Gold overshadows Duterte’s last SONA: Media stop the presses for Hidilyn Diaz

HIDILYN DIAZ’S historic triumph in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics came just over an hour after President Rodrigo Duterte ended his two-hour and forty-five minute State of the Nation Address... Read more

Correction please, Mr. President! — Media

CHEERS TO Philstar.com, Rappler, and VERA Files for fact-checking and providing context as they live-tweeted President Duterte’s last State... Read more

This Week in Media (July 19 to 23, 2021)

FEW WOULD claim that pre-campaign politics or Rodrigo Duterte’s coming State of the Nation Address could compete in terms of relevance with the news of local cases of an... Read more

PDP-Laban: No longer in touch with its legacy

THE INFIGHTING within the party which carried him to the presidency ended with Rodrigo Duterte bragging about how he had given new life to a dormant Partido Demokratiko Pilipino... Read more

Cebu blocktimer shot dead outside radio station

PINES – An unknown gunman aboard a motorcycle shot and killed a radio blocktimer on 22 July 2021 in Cebu city. Cebu city is 1,000km south of Manila. Read more

This Week in Media (July 12 to 16, 2021)

DESPITE A clearly defined campaign period, Filipino politicians probably enjoy one of the longest campaign periods in the world. Without clearly set primaries and caucuses which help track the... Read more

Premature campaigning via media: Spotlight on incumbents gives them pre-campaign boost

OVER TWO whole months before the filing of certificates of candidacy for the 2022 elections, some politicians are already going to great lengths to keep their names in the... Read more

Beyond ‘he said, she said’: Inquirer and InterAksyon find more proof of crisis in PH education

CHEERS TO Inquirer.net and InterAksyon for citing other studies to back up evidence already presented by the World Bank in its critical assessment of the state of PH education. Read more