CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

Four years after the siege: Media zoom in on Marawi with various frames of plight and fight

NEARLY A third of the estimated 300,000 people have yet to return home; 330 bodies retrieved from ground zero buried unidentified in cemeteries; 3,000 families displaced continue to live... Read more

Media Review

MEDIA COVERED a range of issues during the latter half of May, among them the still urgent threat of COVID-19; Duterte’s engagement of Enrile as presidential cheerleader on... Read more

Leonen impeachment case: Attempt to reprise Sereno ouster fails

MORE THAN five months after its initial filing, the impeachment case against Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen collapsed in total failure last May 27. By a unanimous and... Read more

THE COLLAPSE of the peace talks between the government and the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) in 2017 left President Duterte with nothing to... Read more

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