CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

Radio program airs offensive comments on Aquino death

JEERS to guest host and lawyer Larry Gadon for grossly insensitive remarks and his use of foul language when he announced the death of former President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino... Read more

Not a race: Aquino’s death reported in media rush to be first

JEERS TO those media organizations that cared more about beating the competition in announcing the death of President Benigno S. C. Aquino III. On June 24, The Daily Tribune... Read more

PRESS CHAMPION AND ADVOCATE

THE Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility mourns the passing of former President Benigno “Noynoy”Aquino III. We condole with his family and with the rest of the nation... Read more

No longer an ‘Isolated Case’: Media miss the pattern of state killings

PUBLIC OUTCRY took over the internet as a law enforcer, Police Master Sergeant Hensie Zinampan, killed a 52-year-old woman in Quezon City on May 31 mainly because he felt... Read more

Like father, like daughter: Reprising Duterte’s 2015 campaign strategy

JEERS TO the media for reporting Sara Dutere-Carpio’s pre-2022 campaign without pointing out that the family is using the same tactic that the father used in his presidential run... Read more

Media Review

AS THOUGH the pandemic had not made life miserable enough, power outages have added to the difficulties that the public must bear. With so many unemployed and experiencing even... Read more

ABS-CBN’s analysis of rising cases in regions identifies urgent needs

CHEERS TO ANC’s Dateline Philippines for doing more than just citing the number of COVID-19 cases around the country. In an interview format, the program presented a... Read more

From “herd immunity” to “population protection”: What’s the difference?

CHEERS TO InterAksyon.com for catching on to the government’s latest semantic ploy, which essentially lowered the national vaccination target. Other reports merely echoed the Health department’s announcement without saying... Read more

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