CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Media check Duterte and allies’ push for Cha-cha

Now in his last year in office, President Duterte seems determined to push for Charter change with the intention of opening the economy to foreign investments and preventing... Read more

Media indulge AFP red-tagging in the midst of the pandemic

NOT EVEN a raging pandemic has stopped the military’s red-tagging. Already severely challenged by the difficulties of remote teaching, the universities are being further targeted by the Duterte quasi-military... Read more