CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

Palace Spokesperson berates reporter during live broadcast

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque berated a reporter during a televised media briefing for her supposedly misleading report on his statement on mass testing as a response to... Read more

Radio station in Nueva Ecija harassed by local government

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — Radyo Natin Guimba (RNG) in Nueva Ecija and its reporters have been receiving threats and other forms of harassment from the local government according to the National... Read more

Rappler reporter removed from NCRPO messaging group

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — A Rappler reporter was removed from the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) messaging group after the online news organization published the story on NCRPPO chief Major... Read more

Have we “flattened the curve?”

IN APRIL, as the clamor for COVID-19 mass testing intensified, the government scrambled to scale up its testing capacity. On the 30th, during the regular press briefing of the... Read more

GMA-7 airs one-sided interview against ABS-CBN

ABS-CBN’s 25-year franchise expired on May 4, 2020. The House of Representatives had not decided on the network’s application for its franchise renewal. The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issued... Read more

ABS-CBN signs off: Politicians dominate coverage, public interest sidelined

IN THE hands of members of the House of Representatives of Congress, franchise power has been captured by political forces. Without Congressional action on its renewal, the 25-year franchise... Read more

Why the special treatment for POGOs?

WHEN THE government declared the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) for Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon, many businesses including the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGO), were forced to... Read more

Government anti-communist task force posts propaganda against ABS-CBN, Rappler’s Maria Ressa

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), the government’s anti-communist task force, published social media posts on 9 May 2020 denying that the... Read more

Dumaguete broadcaster gets death threat

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Two days after a radio broadcaster was killed in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, a journalist in the same city received a death threat on 7 May 2020.... Read more

Chinese buildup amid COVID-19: Little protest from government and media

THE PHILIPPINE government did not seem to be aware that China had constructed two research facilities in Kagitingan and Zamora Reefs in the West Philippine Sea, and had established... Read more