CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

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

This Week in Media

The eruption of Taal volcano on July 1 cast the public in deeper gloom; but did not displace COVID-19 as the nation’s paramount fear or concern. But it... Read more

Media fixated on Duterte-Pacquiao word war; ignore corruption issues

JEERS TO the media for getting hooked on the verbal tussle between President Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Manny Pacquiao, and for ignoring the opportunity to follow through on the... Read more

Jose Jaime “Nonoy” Espina, 59

JOSE JAIME "Nonoy" Espina, a veteran journalist and fierce advocate of press freedom, died in his home in Bacolod City after battling liver cancer on Wednesday night, July 7,... Read more

Duterte tagged a ‘press freedom predator’ by media watchdog

PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte has been tagged by a worldwide watchdog as a "press freedom predator." Read more