CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

Rappler brings to light military’s dangerous behavior online

THE DUTERTE administration’s fight against communist insurgency has taken to social media platforms as a frontline of action. As the military justifies its “information war” to help quell insurgency,... Read more

Broadcaster-columnist shot dead in Pangasinan four years after surviving slay attempt

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Unidentified men aboard a motorcycle shot and killed a columnist and radio commentator in Villasis, Pangasinan on 10 November 2020. The killing happened four years after the... Read more

MIA again: Duterte “at home” during 2020’s strongest typhoon

CRITICS ON social media were quick to call out the president’s conspicuous absence in government’s response to Super Typhoon Rolly. The world’s strongest tropical cyclone this year ravaged Southern... Read more

Negros Island’s paper of record closes shop

by Daryl Z. Lasafin A VENERABLE press institution closed down last month. After 38 years, Bacolod City-based The Visayan Daily Star published its last issue on October 17. Like... Read more

Crackdown on corruption? Few reports question Duterte’s “mega task force”

ADMITTING THAT corruption persists under his term, President Rodrigo Duterte on October 27 instructed the Department of Justice to investigate allegations of corruption “in the entire government.” Speaking in... Read more

ABS-CBN News YouTube channels back online hours after shutdown

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — ABS-CBN News and ANC (ABS-CBN News Channel) YouTube channels are back online a few hours after they were suspended by YouTube. The video streaming platform suspended the... Read more

More terror from anti-terrorism law’s IRR

WITH 37 PETITIONS filed before the Supreme Court questioning its constitutionality, the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA)has become one of the most contested laws in recent history. After it was signed... Read more

Disaster response lacking in anti-COVID-19 measures

AS THE country braces itself for the landfall of Typhoon Rolly, the 18th tropical cyclone to hit the country this year, the government seems at a loss about how... Read more

Beyond the “drama”: Reports spotlight human rights violations in Baby River’s burial

THE “CRUEL and inhumane” treatment of a jailed activist during the burial of her three-month-old daughter made international headlines last week. Baby River was the daughter of Reina Mae... Read more

Vicente “Vic” Tirol, 75

CMFR MOURNS the passing of veteran journalist, publisher and dear friend Vicente “Vic” Tirol last October 19. He was 75. A UP Journalism graduate, Tirol began his career in... Read more