CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

Holding back: Media split on covering Bong Go’s poor performance in Senate

LAST MAY 20 and 25, neophyte Senator Christopher “Bong” Go struggled to answer veteran politician and Minority Floor Leader Franklin Drilon’s questions about Go’s proposed bills to increase bed... Read more

Losing the right to know and other perils from vaccine brand non-disclosure

JEERS TO the media for letting public officials dominate the conversation on the DOH and DILG directive prohibiting the LGUs from announcing the vaccine brands available at inoculation centers.... Read more

Elephants in the room

AS OF May 18, only 786,528 individuals or 1.36 percent of the population have been fully vaccinated. This is not a promising figure, taking into account the government’s self-impose... Read more

Impact, accountability and rehabilitation: Unanswered questions on the PGH fire

AMID THE raging heat wave, fire struck past midnight of May 16 the country’s largest COVID-19 hospital, the Philippine General Hospital (PGH). The disaster forced the evacuation of hundreds... Read more

Selling out the West PH Sea

AS PRESIDENT Duterte continues to express his beliefs and state his positions, he has confirmed that he is our fundamental problem. It is he who stands in the way... Read more

Media Review

Every two weeks, CMFR will provide a quick recap of the media coverage of the biggest stories or issues, noting the same slips that our monitors have been doing. ... Read more

Rappler correspondent barred from coverage

CMFR?PHILIPPINES -- A Rappler reporter was initially barred from entering the premises of the Central Visayas police headquarters in Cebu City on May 14 to cover the release of... Read more

Focused on events: No analysis from media on vaccination program issues

JEERS TO the media for their lack of interest in providing a sustained analysis and discussion of the country’s vaccination program. Media coverage has remained fixated on events such... Read more

Debate by proxy: Brouhaha that distracted the media

JEERS TO the media for squandering screen time and print space on the administration’s prattle after President Duterte withdrew from his own challenge to debate retired SC Associate Justice... Read more

TV cameraman assaulted in Caloocan

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A television cameraman was mauled by three men when he took videos of guests who thronged a resort in Caloocan on 10 May 2020. Caloocan... Read more