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Why give Harry Roque more screen time?
JEERS TO TV5 for giving Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque more screen time, as though the media were not already providing him too much of that by religiously covering his... Read more
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Assessing the economic impact of the failure to control the pandemic
LAST MARCH 15, the Philippines made international headlines with the first anniversary of the world’s longest and most militarized lockdown. Most reports in Philippine media called attention to the... Read more
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Media Review
MEDIA DID note the anniversary of the first day of the lockdown in March last year. But reporters did not choose to spend time reviewing all the policy failures... Read more
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Government incompetence responsible for delays in vaccine arrivals — media
CHEERS TO Inquirer and Rappler for not letting pass government’s excuse for the delay of the vaccine roll out which presidential spokesperson Harry Roque hyped as a fitting Valentine’s... Read more
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PH government’s slow vaccine rollout: Plainly inept or intentional?
SINCE THE pandemic hit the country in January 2020, the Philippines has moved through a chain of snafus and scandals: Filipinos suffered the longest-running lockdown, the highest number of... Read more
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A Personal Remembrance: Joaquin Bernas, S.J. and CMFR
FATHER JOAQUIN Bernas of the Society of Jesus was born July 8, 1932 in Baao, Camarines Sur. The many testimonials after his death last March 6 described an astonishing... Read more
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Rappler reviews evidence of police culpability in drug war killings
CHEERS TO Rappler’s investigative team for reviewing the drug war files and revealing government’s failure to hold police accountable for alleged cases of extrajudicial killings in their operations. Read more
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Cebu media take part in dubious police “rescue”
JEERS TO some Cebu-based journalists for joining the police team in the latter’s supposed “rescue” of young Lumad students from the Talamban campus of the University of San Carlos... Read more
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Media during the pandemic: Public scrutiny of PH vaccine plan needed
CMFR monitored the coverage of four primetime news programs (ABS-CBN 2’s TV Patrol, GMA-7’s 24 Oras, TV5’s Frontline Pilipinas, CNN Philippines’ News Night), six Manila-based broadsheets (Philippine Daily Inquirer,... Read more
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Inquirer justice reporter red-tagged by NTF-ELCAC spox
Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., the spokesman for the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), red-tagged INQUIRER.net’s justice beat reporter Tetch Torres-Tupas on his Facebook... Read more