Luis V. Teodoro, Author at CMFR | Page 7 of 11

  • Challenge to the dominant press

    THE PHILIPPINES has a long alternative press tradition that goes back to the reform and revolutionary movements of the late 19th century—from Marcelo H. Del Pilar’s Diariong Tagalog, to... Read more

  • FOI and FOE in the campaign agenda

    Both the right to information and freedom of expression should be in the agenda of press and public discourse in the 2013 elections, and should help transform an otherwise... Read more

  • Arroyo redux?

    IN 2010 the election to the Presidency of Benigno S. Aquino III seemed to herald, if not the coming of a free expression regime, at least the promise... Read more

  • Being pro-active

    JOURNALISTS AND media advocacy groups have for years been urging a stop to the Philippine National Police and other government investigating bodies’ long-standing practice of presenting crime suspects to... Read more

  • Media Damnation (Updated)

    The Philippine news media have a problem: how to make what’s turning into one of the most boring elections in Philippine history interesting as well as meaningful to a... Read more

  • Free TV, the tabloids and elections

    THE PHILIPPINE media have often been accused of bias in the coverage of elections. But inadequacy rather than partiality has been their more telling flaw. Content analysis of the... Read more

  • Abolishing the PCGG

    PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION on Good Government (PCGG) Chair Andres Bautista may have a point. The PCGG may have to be abolished—but only so it can be reorganized so it can... Read more

  • Social change and the crisis of information

    INFORMATION IS what the Reproductive Health (RH) and Freedom of Information (FOI) bills are all about. The first would provide women with information on their own bodies—which for too... Read more

  • Writers and public intellectuals

    WE ALL know who, or what, the writer is. He or she is a poet, a playwright, an essayist and/or a novelist. But he or she is also the... Read more

  • The price of (limited) success

    EVERY PHILIPPINE President since Marcos has been critical of the press and has demanded that it behave in a manner acceptable to government. Marcos’ main complaint, as it was... Read more



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